I've got a new laptop.  It's very nice.  A Dell Vostro - with a beautiful WUXGA screen with a 1920 x 1200 resolution.  With a fast hard drive, 4GB of RAM and a duo core processor and dedicated graphics card it's a joy to use.  Unlike on my old IBM laptop which was over 2 years old, this new one makes light work of Photoshop and anything else I throw at it.  As a bonus the screen resolution is ideal for multi-tabling on blondepoker - something that's difficult to do without resizeable tables or a resolution of 1600×1200 or greater.

The Vostro is a work-machine, and less 'pretty' than many other laptops.  But I quite like that, and it's more about what it can do rather than how pretty the box looks.

One thing that makes me laugh though is the on-screen notices that the Dell software pops up from time to time. 

The most useful one is the one that tells me that I've either plugged in or unplugged my headphones into the computer. 

This is something I'm quite aware of, having just plugged the headphones into the computer. 

I'd have to have extreme short-term memory loss to forget what I've just done.  Helpfully, it also tells me when I've unplugged the headphones as well.  Most useful.

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