The Laptop of Luxury.....

There has been a new addition to my family! No - I have not become a granny - but have adopted a beautiful (hopefully non-bouncing!) baby Apple G4 iBook! It’s so shiny! So pretty! So CUTE!!!! I too can sit around in cafes in Vienna, and look like a sophisticated writer as I tap out my journal online........ Little do they know I'll probably be playing Solitaire......

One thing becomes immediately apparent as I type - or try to...... I need a manicure in order to stop hitting two keys at once! Secondly, I’m going to have to use a bigger font to type in, or risk getting greasy marks on the screen from my nose. I guess I could always affix some binoculars to my specs......

I am however, somewhat disgruntled that it doesn’t appear to want to know my broadband modem, so am now resigned to spending the dosh I saved by purchasing this shiny cute thing in a sale, on an Airport Wireless set-up...... Where’s a geek when you need one!?

Cue Geek.

After ferreting through the ads in a local rag, I appropriate said geek, who performs an expensive, but ultimately successful introductory service between stand-offish new lappy and a snazzy new wireless router thingummajig, and the pair are now firmly united. I can now use TWO computers at once - very confusing! - and am happy as a pig in the proverbial poo that I can sit in bed and access the weird wild web with my feet up!

The laptop of luxury indeed!