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Originally uploaded by paranoidangel

This is what I've spent most of my past week on (apart from looking at houses): the little blue laptop. I've photographed it on top of my current one to show the size difference. My computer is 15.4", the laptop is 8.9" (I know they're both laptops but I have to call them both something different). It has Linux on it (Linpus, to be precise) so I've spent a lot of time on the forums trying to work out how to do stuff. It's a lot like Unix, so some of it is coming back to me.

Biggest pain in the arse so far is my TV. When I plug my computer into it I set it to PC and it shows me a picture. That doesn't work with the laptop, but it turns out what you're supposed to do, is cycle through the options that let you watch two channels at once until you get to PC. At which point it'll show you the picture at 640x480, no matter which computer you plug into it. Which is not helpful, since it only shows you a corner of the screen. Useful.