Re: [OT] New toys, new problems?

Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the
Replicant Lukas Mariman covertly transmitting a message to renegade
friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...

>Greeting, carbon units!
>
>I just went crazy (again) and got me a new PC.
>
>After years of upgrading my existing box piece by piece every so often, I

>wanted to take the other route and got me a brand PC.
>
>I bought an Acer Aspire M3610, which has an Intel Core 2 Quad processor,
and 
>comes with Vista Home Premium (and some assorted software included) 
>preloaded.
>
>Naturally, there don't seem to be any physical copies of Vista or
anything 
>else that was installed  - instead there's some bare-bones do***entation 
>that doesn't really help at all, and a few blank "recovery" DVDs.
>
>Still figuring out how I am supposed to make a backup of Vista. :-/
>
>Anyway, just sharing this touching stuff with you dudes/dudettes. If any
of 
>you have Acer stuff as well, I'd love to read what you think of it. Any 
>experiences, horror stories etc. :-) 

I have increasing motivation to buy me a new laptop.  One that can do
media/games, etc. without blinking.  Something that can double as
movie screen as well as work-anywhere, do multiple things workhorse.
With HDMI output.  Anyone got any suggestions?

I don't personally have anything in particular to say about Acer.  Did
you get an XP disk with your previous PC then?  That is what I infer.
I didn't with mine.  It came on its own HD partition and I had to burn
my own disks.  I burned both a 4-CD version and a DVD version.  So, I
would expect you need to do the same with Vista.  Don't put it off.
Figure out what you need to do and get those disks burned without
delay!

Netrunner