Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry

...Or online in the Dell shop.

Now I know Matt hates Windows etc and so do many other people but I like it because I know how to use it and all that jazz and if there is one thing to know about me is that I like using things that I know how to use.

I got a new laptop - not from a second hand store...and I LOVE it.

It's a total beaut...Dell Inspiron 1525 with a Ruby Red exterior, I still call it Raspberry because it is that colour that stains your clothes and your fingers when you go to the end of my parents garden and gorge yourself from their raspberry bushes, yum, I can't wait till Summertime when I can do that once again.

So my new laptop is great, its fast, like about a million billion times faster than my old one mainly due to (or so I am told) the amount of memory on it, and it has built in wireless (which my old old oldey one didn't) and it has a bluetooth receptor or whatever it is called and its RED, it feels like silk to touch, amazingly nicer than my old crappy dull black rough one.

I am delighted with myself!

I am not however delighted with Dells telephone people. Yesterday when I was trying to get through to customer services to ask a very very simple question about my laptop which had not been delievered yet it took me 7 phone calls before I gave up trying in the end. I was disgusted to be honest. I called them SEVEN bloodywell times. I got through to numerous different departments, all in India I think, all of whom put me through to the wrong person even when I was promised that I wouldn't be and then they all eventually put me through to an automatic answering service thingy who told me that Dells opening hours were between 9 and 5.30pm and their offices were closed even though I was calling between 12.45pm and 1.45pm. I was almost in tears with the frustration.

Interlink - the courier company who delievered the laptop tp me were wonderful on the other hand and even called me twice to tell me where my package was, once to tell me that the driver was in the area and would be delivering withing the next hour and then again to tell me that the driver was just driving through the gates of where I work. I love them officially, but not as much as my laptop.

Ok, so I think you all get it now, I love the laptop, it loves me, I am scared of Vista though, but I will be ok in a while, at least I know how Windows works mostly!! :)