The problem is that unless we spend an arm and a leg, she'll get a drop in resolution from her old laptop (1400x900 to 1366x768). And as she finds the screen to be an important part, she's not overly fussed on having an enforced downgrade.
And of course even if she can get used to it, there's always that annoyance of knowing that you've got a deliberately poorer screen, just to help the laptop manufacturer make more profit at your expense. Kind of leaves a nasty taste in your mouth.
In the end she's gone for a 13.3" Samsung Series 9 Ultrabook. 1600x900 res (so although she'll lose vertical space, she's not losing resolution), 128GB SSD, and it only weighs 1.1kg. Looks very nice. In fact, IMO if it had a 16:10 screen, it'd have been perfect. Still, apart from that it looks like a nice bit of kit!
Same laptop I have, you'll want to do some partition fiddling with it as it comes with 90Gb useable out of the box they've put so much recovery shite on there!
I think it's extremely thoughtful of laptop manufacturers to make sure that you can easily restore all the CuntingFuckware™ they supplied, and I would gladly see at least 50% of the advertised capacity of the barely-large-enough SSD dedicated to such a restore volume. Saves you having to write down a list of all the CuntingFuckware™ so you can download and re-install it after a repave of your PC (and that's assuming the right version of CORELshop Pro Elements Lite 2011 OEM is even available for download anymore).
Helpfully the software wasn't all that crap, and they offer a software manager which you can download to put things like the hotkey functions back on anyway, so if you have an internet connection there's no need to have a 30gb restore image on a 128gb SSD. Whatever happened to the days they just supplied a DVD with the machine!
Apple don't do that any more, since Lion (where you could buy a USB restore stick) they have made a recovery partition on your HDD. With mountain lion they no longer offer a USB stick at all. The expectation is you'll just download it from the apple store in the event of disaster recovery.
I think they have some sort of GUI recovery mode thing that can connect to the internet, which implies that if a Mac can't access the net (assuming a connection is available), something is really badly wrong.
I think.
I should probably find this stuff out, in case my MBP gets ill.
I think they have some sort of GUI recovery mode thing that can connect to the internet, which implies that if a Mac can't access the net (assuming a connection is available), something is really badly wrong.
I think.
I should probably find this stuff out, in case my MBP gets ill.
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