Viva technology!

[winter]

After a year of carrying the work laptop home every day, and eight years after I last got a new-to-me computer (only a year old at that point and with extra-good specs for that time, 2GB RAM and almost 2GHz single-core processor), I finally have a new personal machine. MINE. My money, my choice, my 6+ hours reinstalling everything from scratch because silly Microsoft thinks that only people who live in English-speaking countries want English-speaking Windows. (I have not had a Polish-speaking computer ever, and I don't use one for work either, since my workplace is very much global.)

It's a Lenovo IdeaPad Y570, because I'm on my second work-issued ThinkPad and loving it.

I started off calling it just Toy. Thanks to fyrie it's now Toyoko. Svelte, elegant, stylish enough to carry off some dubious fashion choices (orange stripe around the lid) and hopefully will work for 10+ years - if the shoe fits...

Comments

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

silly Microsoft thinks that only people who live in English-speaking countries want English-speaking Windows

This! This is my pet peeve! They need to stop this!

[winter]

Thankfully one of the Very Shiny Things about Windows 7 (which is very shiny in general) is that you can download a US Windows 7 ISO DVD image from Microsoft itself for your appropriate Win7 subvariant, burn it to DVD, then install it over your Strange Language with the same OEM product key, for free except for the next 5 hours you'll spend installing all Windows Updates and drivers. I just about did a victory dance when I figured it out.

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[winter]

It's new! I've never had a brand-new computer!

[alice_montrose]

Ooooh, CONGRATULATIONS! May you take great advantage of the new toy!

Non-English Microsoft products are evil and should be BANNED! When I got Kali, one of the guys from the online store called to make sure I hadn't ordered the English version of Windows 7 by mistake. I promptly pointed out to him that I am in no particular rush to tear my eyes out every time I turned on my laptop. He also wanted to confirm I can install Windows on my own, because for some reason three quarters of the computer-literate male population believes women are hopeless at this technology thing. (My actual answer: "In my sleep, kid, in my sleep!")

Also, Happy Birthday for tomorrow, in case I'm not around!

[winter]

Thankee :) And fortunately I can LOOM over people who think I can't do computers. Being tall comes in handy...

[alice_montrose]

Oh yes, it most definitely does. *approves of Looming and Death Glare-ing*

[tokugawa.livejournal.com]

Hey~ Just want to wish you a happy early birthday (on my end since it's still the 6th) and I hope that you have a good one~ :)

[winter]

Thank you so much :)