It’s Friday night and I am not board-opping a football game!
(Hemingford’s season came to an end yesterday so I am out of the button-monkey business until next season, or until some unforeseen technical imbruglio pulls me back to the console.)
So tonight I am getting friendly with my new laptop. In 2011 (or possibly late 2010) I bought a supercharged Alienware laptop because I was eager to play then-current video games “L.A. Noire” and the latest “Grand Theft Auto.” The Alienware served me quite well but it weighs a ton and I’m ready for something slimmer.
I am now typing this blog on my Asus ZenBook 15. It is light, and thin, and filled with all kinds of tricks and gizmos I am stumbling my way through. The most wacky of these is that the mousepad is also a second screen. The idea being that while I’m writing this blog I could be listening to Perry Como on Spotify on the second screen. It’s impressive but a real learning curve, because sometimes the laptop thinks you want to play around with that second screen and you have to tell it “Nope, just be a mousepad now, please.”
The other challenge: I am old. Or at least trying to find the mouse on this screen makes me feel old. So I went in and made the mouse bigger, and it’s now in a Nickelodeon-slime shade of green. I’ve had to do this kind of thing with the monitors in Studio 14A…it’s only a matter of years before I’m changing my Reader’s Digest subscription to the Large Print Edition.
Windows offered some sort of online utility to transfer all my pics, audio and video from “old lappy” to “new lappy” but it was not working…I blame mediocre wi-fi. So I bought a 64 GIG jumpdrive and did it the old fashioned way.
And now I am getting everything just the way I like it. This weekend will be a nice chance to play around with this thing and see what kinds of neat tricks it does.