New laptop- day 1/2

My Dell has been going flaky on me.  I have been a Dell fan for a while.  I have a desktop and a laptop that  I use everyday as my own and it was time to replace the laptop.  I think there needs to be some hardware repair (graphics card, space bar, touchpad and motherboard is my guess) and the whole she-bang rebuilt.  I have been abusing this particular laptop for over a year now so it was just time.

 

The Lenovo arrived while I was out of town.  I have never had a Think Pad before, never been a fan of the dang pencil eraser.  This one has the touchpad I need.  My wonderful husband ordered it for me with some cool bells and whistles, but also with the version of Windows I will use already installed (I always just blow away and rebuild a new laptop, don't you?). 

 

Why day 1/2?  Because all of the other install discs are on my desk at the office, not home.  So Office, Visual Studio, etc will have to be installed tomorrow, so all I can do now is some basic browsing and playing to see if I like it.

 

The graphics are amazing, very pretty, and crisp.

 

So, not sure I can really count day 1 just yet.  So, look for day 1 officially around Tuesday or so.  :-)

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