Comments on: Help the Geek Girl get a new laptop!

By: Ellie

Ellie — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:09:37 +0000

I tried to use a plugin that would republish old posts but it did not work as planned! I am still using my Macbook and loving it!

By: jay

jay — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:52:51 +0000

I saw this the other day and thought – what again?!? what did she do to the last laptop??
So, clue me in… are you looking for a a laptop again…! or are you recycling old posts for fun? Not that your posts aren’t worthy of recycling of course, wisdom bears repeating

By: Liz Jenkins

Liz Jenkins — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:14:25 +0000

I’ve got a hot pink sony vaio which I like – small & portable – it’s got vista which I haven’t had any problems with especially since I got Firefox. I do mostly word docs, internet, quickbooks & lots of photos. Only has 2 usb ports which really sucks – have an external hub for the other things I need.
Don’t remember what I paid for it a few years ago but it’s been a good machine. If I could just keep the cat off of it – it’d be great.

By: Geek Girl’s Got a New Laptop! » thepinkc

Geek Girl’s Got a New Laptop! » thepinkc — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:53:23 +0000

[...] Thanks to everyone who responded with suggestions in my previous post, Help the Geek Girl get a new laptop! [...]

By: Ellie

Ellie — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:51:04 +0000

Yes, the Mac Air looks so beautiful. I want one!

By: Ellie

Ellie — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:49:15 +0000

I’m definitely installing Opera on my cell phone; but for some reason Opera will not load Gmail and Google Calendar for me.

By: Loretta

Loretta — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:46:49 +0000

Well, should you win the lottery anytime soon the new Mac Air thing looks super sexy!!

I’ve got an HP Pavilion laptop and I do love it. It wasn’t a pricy model either, mine is about a year old though so I’m sure my model number is out of date.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:01:42 +0000

Now I am learning…. I use opera on my ‘phone since you mention it, works a heck of a lot better than the standard phone browser – it’s called opera Mini and allows you top see the whole page and zoom in on the bits you want to look at….
Opera was not installed onto the phone direct, but I found it while browsing the memory card (looking for games…) I use a Nokia 6300 but other 6300 users I have spoken to had no extra software on their memory card…

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:00:34 +0000

My site looks slightly different in IE vs Firefox, but not enough to make me try to make it compatible with everything. Opera is a nice browser, but it doesn’t work with a LOT of sites – so I don’t use it very often.

Ebay has great deals on most everything – I’m looking for a cell phone there now.

Yes, there’s a way to use Firefox on a thumb (flash) drive. You can download/install at http://www.portableapps.com – they have lots of different programs, including Toucan, which is a file syncing program and Pidgin Portable.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:01:58 +0000

The occasional site requires IE, but I guess that’s down to ignorance on the part of the webmaster…let’s not say anything about those visiting any of my sites that get glitches because they use IE?? – In fact I think ‘submit’ forms (even on my own site) don’t do quite what they should in FF…
Yeah most motherboards will accept any combination of acceptable RAM, mine is happy with different speeds too, some motherboards required matched RAM… I used Crucial.COM to determine exactly what configuration of RAM I could use – needless to say I didn’t then go on to buy their relatively expensive RAM suggestions, but went for an ebay-tastic alternative…
There is a suggestion of using Linux as a portable OS (ie on a thumb-drive) is that what you mean by portable??