In case you were wondering…

…My new laptop has arrived in one peice. No problems at all. The carrier at the end of the day was UkMail, thankfully not a shady white van.

Laptop is bigger than I expected but thats probably due to my crap estimation of size. Everything just works, webcam, wifi, sound, even the media buttons that are at the top of the keyboard. The Ubuntu folk have done a great job with this.

Copying over my documents and settings was a breeze, just select all the files and folders I want (remembering the hidden files), copy and paste then reboot once all the patching was done. Easy as pie.

This was definatly a good choice of laptop.

Still waiting

EDIT: This entry seems to be getting a fair amount of attention. My laptop did arrive a few days later if I recall. Tracking info was pretty much non existant.

Laptop is still not here. The tracking is somewhat cryptic and I have no idea where it is.

Date	Time	Location	Activity
26/08/08	10:05	PLAN COMMITTED	NOTE.
25/08/08	11:16	MR. KEVIN SMITH 28/08/08	SCHEDULED DELIVERY DATE.
24/08/08	14:00	RAHEEN	DEPARTED EMF.
24/08/08	12:17		ISLAND DELIVERY.

I’m slightly worried about one of the entries. Apparently the delivery date has been set but they were supposed to call me to ask when it is convenient. Also, what does “plan committed” mean? What plan?

There are also some bad experiences with the courier that Dell use to ship stuff in the UK. Aparrently Walsh Western subcontract the deliveries to other couriers so I have no idea what van to look out for.

Call me paranoid but when you have spent a fair bit of money you want to know where your purchace is and negative reviews aren’t comforting.