Problem Girl

I meant to post another entry before I left The Land Of Aus, but my Swinburne internet screwed up and then I had to return my computer so I couldn't do anything aside from go to an internet cafe, which I saw no point in doing.



There was this whole fiasco at the CCC when I returned [or tried to] the Fujitsu laptop.

[when i feel like it, i'll write down the whole thing.]







Right now, I'm using my mum's Asus laptop. Last Sunday, we went to the Sitex [I think that's how you spell it.] computer convention at the Expo. My gosh, it was so crowded there, I have no idea how I managed to survive spending oh about.... 4 hours in that crowded, hot and sweaty Expo hall. I nearly bought this cool looking Blue Asus laptop that had a really nice design on the cover. The specs weren't too bad either. I managed to wiggle out a free RAM upgrade from 2GB to 4GB. HD capacity was 250 GB. There was also this bonus: free 250 GB external HD, com bag and optical mouse.

Apparently, the laptop also had a guaranteed 8 seconds start up time; which compared to my mum's laptop is quite fast. After using my mum's laptop [OS: Windows Vista] for about a week, I realise that the Vista OS eats a lot of electricity. My mum's laptop is only 1 year old and within that one year since she bought the notebook, she hasn't been using it that much, not like how I use the Fujitsu. The battery doesn't last very long before I have to charge it again. Sucky... Oh well, there's still 1 more year international warranty. So my mum plans to head down to the Asus office and see if she can upgrade this computer we have now, instead of buying me a new one. There's only 120 GB on the notebook's HD, at least that's what it says on the laptop sticker. But if you click on My Computer, I get this...

C drive: 55.8 GB and D drive: 49.0 GB

How does that work out?

If you add the two together, you only get 104.8 GB.

Where did the other 15.2 GB go??

Please someone, shed some light!!!



There are a few important things I have to do right now.

1) Recover as many of my songs as possible. The count stands at 529 on my itunes. I still have another 500 to go. I don't even listen to all 1000+ of the songs because my iPod has only 2GB capacity.

2) Get an an external hard drive.

3)Transfer all songs, pics, videos and every other important soft copy files I have into said hard drive.