Sunday, July 20, 2008 |
Author: Julia
Update as of 08/03/08
After two weeks of playing with the HP, we were not thrilled with it. We had doubts about it's long-term durability and reliability in being our prime communication link in many ways with everything.
We were resigned to just making do until we had a conversation with Jacob's parents who have a MacBook with the new chip, and who (it turns out), would much rather have a PC! So it's back to mac for us, and it's SO GREAT!!!!
Today we purchased a PC to use when we're on Pisces. Jacob found a great price on a spiffy little HP with lots of memory (so we can take tons of photos once we leave).
While I use a PC at work I've always been a Mac person so it felt a little weird to buy a PC for personal use. But it's surprisingly nice and has all sorts of cool features (that Jacob assures me are not the important ones) such as web cam and a little remote control for the DVD/CD player etc.
It will be our video and voice link to family and friends as well as our entertainment center for music and video.
Right now, I'm excited to start using it to download weather faxes. We've been listening to the cruising nets using our world radio receiver, and I'm itching to start figuring out how to download the weather forecasts and faxes onto the PC.
After two weeks of playing with the HP, we were not thrilled with it. We had doubts about it's long-term durability and reliability in being our prime communication link in many ways with everything.
We were resigned to just making do until we had a conversation with Jacob's parents who have a MacBook with the new chip, and who (it turns out), would much rather have a PC! So it's back to mac for us, and it's SO GREAT!!!!
Today we purchased a PC to use when we're on Pisces. Jacob found a great price on a spiffy little HP with lots of memory (so we can take tons of photos once we leave).
While I use a PC at work I've always been a Mac person so it felt a little weird to buy a PC for personal use. But it's surprisingly nice and has all sorts of cool features (that Jacob assures me are not the important ones) such as web cam and a little remote control for the DVD/CD player etc.
It will be our video and voice link to family and friends as well as our entertainment center for music and video.
Right now, I'm excited to start using it to download weather faxes. We've been listening to the cruising nets using our world radio receiver, and I'm itching to start figuring out how to download the weather forecasts and faxes onto the PC.
2 comments:
Ahoy Julia and Jacob,
I am very impressed with the progress you two have made with PISCES!
I have also come into the possession of a laptop (PowerBook G4 hand me down). iPhoto works great with my Canon A560. The learning curve was very steep for me since I'm not a tech geek . Let me know how the weatherfax works out. I think decoding software is needed for the single side band signal. A good antenna is very important. Lots of choices out there.
Greg 34°10'N 119°14'W
To see what fax products are available go to:
weather.noaa.gov/fax/hawaii.shtml
G