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I should hit 125,000 words today on the draft for A MAGIC OF DAWN. My best guess that the draft would hit about 150,000 before revision is still looking about right; so is my prediction that the polished and revised 'submission draft' will be rather longer than that.
Deadline in June. That's still looking good also... Send good writing vibes my way, please!
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The news feeds are tossing computer stuff my way this morning:
Steve Jobs actually said it a couple years back in one of his keynote addresses: sales of notebook computers will soon outpace sales of desktop machines. It's true here in the Parsley Leigh household: since I replaced my desktop iMac with a Macbook, there are no desktop machines in our house. And now the NY Times has realized it too. "More notebook machines will be sold worldwide this year than desktops, the first time in the industry’s history, according to the research firm IDC. In the United States, the milestone has already been reached: last year, notebook sales passed those for desktops."
What about you folks? Do you still use a desktop machine or a notebook/netbook?
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And in semi-related news: In a report on customer satisfaction, Apple has a significant lead. "The Mac producer received an 80 percent score, or "good," on a combination of ease of use, meeting needs and a pleasurable experience. Its next-closest rival, Gateway, scored just 66 percent, or "okay." Other competitors fared worse, with HP and its sub-label Compaq receiving 64 percent and 63 percent scores that are considered "poor;" Dell has dipped to 58 percent. " The article also notes that Microsoft has just launched an ad campaign suggesting that buyers should look only at the specifications and pricing of a computer, not at the other aspects such as system design, software integration, and customer experience.
Hoe do you buy your computers? What's the most important factor(s) in making that decision?
Deadline in June. That's still looking good also... Send good writing vibes my way, please!
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The news feeds are tossing computer stuff my way this morning:
Steve Jobs actually said it a couple years back in one of his keynote addresses: sales of notebook computers will soon outpace sales of desktop machines. It's true here in the Parsley Leigh household: since I replaced my desktop iMac with a Macbook, there are no desktop machines in our house. And now the NY Times has realized it too. "More notebook machines will be sold worldwide this year than desktops, the first time in the industry’s history, according to the research firm IDC. In the United States, the milestone has already been reached: last year, notebook sales passed those for desktops."
What about you folks? Do you still use a desktop machine or a notebook/netbook?
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And in semi-related news: In a report on customer satisfaction, Apple has a significant lead. "The Mac producer received an 80 percent score, or "good," on a combination of ease of use, meeting needs and a pleasurable experience. Its next-closest rival, Gateway, scored just 66 percent, or "okay." Other competitors fared worse, with HP and its sub-label Compaq receiving 64 percent and 63 percent scores that are considered "poor;" Dell has dipped to 58 percent. " The article also notes that Microsoft has just launched an ad campaign suggesting that buyers should look only at the specifications and pricing of a computer, not at the other aspects such as system design, software integration, and customer experience.
Hoe do you buy your computers? What's the most important factor(s) in making that decision?
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We have three main computer users in the house (the fourth resident is 12, and doesn't get a lot of input into what type of system he uses :) ). The only one with a laptop as a primary machine is the teenager who will be going off to college in the fall, as it was the most efficient way of getting her a machine she could use both now and at college.
My husband is a computer programmer by trade -- he has two desk machines at work, and one at home. He has an MSI Wind that he travels with, but it's not his primary machine. He has occasionally tried to replace a desktop with a laptop machine, and has never been happy -- a laptop with a display large enough to be usable for work is too big to be portable, which is the only real advantage a laptop would have.
We have no brand loyalty, other than no Macs (nothing personal, really, but J works in a Windows environment at work, and it's not worth the effort to try to find Mac equivalents to the things that we use). My desktop is a Dell, his is a Dell, both over four years old, both running XP or Linux. The teenager's laptop is a Toshiba, and the MYTHtv box is a "horrible frankincense monster" which I think began life as an HP mini-tower, got its hardware scavenged for other systems, and then was rebuilt using bits and pieces from Newegg.