I bought a brand new laptop last year, a VAIO, and it came with a broken speaker, with a faulty screen, and bad glue. ...It was a Windows 8 but I got 8.1 installed.
I never bothered to send it to Sony's headquarters in Vancouver; I had to pay shipping, even under warranty and no time was given to me on how long it would take.
Lesson learned: Never buy a Sony product, and never buy from Future Shop. ...Cheap plastic, cheap glue, broken here and there, cheap people.
* My next laptop will be made of pure chrome metal titanium, and with Windows 10.
I will buy second-hand; one that normally retails for about $2,000 but would pay no more than $500. ...Or even less. ...A business professional laptop, fully equipped with the latest old technologies from 2014.
♥ Today I listened to a lot of Jazz ♫ music; Patricia Barber, from my CD music Jazz female singers collection. 😎
I never bothered to send it to Sony's headquarters in Vancouver; I had to pay shipping, even under warranty and no time was given to me on how long it would take.
Lesson learned: Never buy a Sony product, and never buy from Future Shop. ...Cheap plastic, cheap glue, broken here and there, cheap people.
* My next laptop will be made of pure chrome metal titanium, and with Windows 10.
I will buy second-hand; one that normally retails for about $2,000 but would pay no more than $500. ...Or even less. ...A business professional laptop, fully equipped with the latest old technologies from 2014.
♥ Today I listened to a lot of Jazz ♫ music; Patricia Barber, from my CD music Jazz female singers collection. 😎
The original LP of Tom Johnson's Nine Bells, a bit less histrionic than this youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOWaKXeaPO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOWaKXeaPO8
Sorry about your bad luck, Bob, I guess it's always worthwhile checking what people's experiences are with brands - and this is a moving target, probably changes every few months depending upon how much people are complaining, and how responsive the companies are to getting their names besmirched, 🙁. At least with getting one secondhand, all those Monday morning blues problems have been sorted out ... 🙂.
My first one, a cheaper Dell, had some some issues when new, and the repair chappie came to the house! No mucking around, pulled it apart, replaced the whole CPU assembly as a first step(!) - this didn't fix the problem, which turned out to be a software thing - but I was impressed with the service !! Current unit, a middle line HP, seems quite reasonable - and the internal speaker sound is showing good promise ... I'm going to kick off some blog blather 😉 about what I find out along the way ...
My first one, a cheaper Dell, had some some issues when new, and the repair chappie came to the house! No mucking around, pulled it apart, replaced the whole CPU assembly as a first step(!) - this didn't fix the problem, which turned out to be a software thing - but I was impressed with the service !! Current unit, a middle line HP, seems quite reasonable - and the internal speaker sound is showing good promise ... I'm going to kick off some blog blather 😉 about what I find out along the way ...
Chris Jones - Roadhouses & Automobiles
I think Chris Jones perfectly fit to those ones, whose are included in my signature.
I think Chris Jones perfectly fit to those ones, whose are included in my signature.
Listening to some old crappy recordings of the band I was in at the beginning of the nineties.
The bass, the instrument that I played was recorded without a compressor, we only had very basic gear then and it totally dominates the mix and periodically drove the recording tape into saturation! Mind you a lot less ugly than digital clipping. 🙂
The bass, the instrument that I played was recorded without a compressor, we only had very basic gear then and it totally dominates the mix and periodically drove the recording tape into saturation! Mind you a lot less ugly than digital clipping. 🙂
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I like that quote Dennis. 🙂
Last piece of music that I listened to before listening to my old tapes, was: Art of Noise; In Visible Silence.
Gordon.
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Blues - Jimi Hendrix
On my "new", old laptop internal speakers - in pretty decent form, the vibe is happening full bore 🙂. One track, Voodoo Chile Blues, is a very spacious live performance, and there is a beautiful pickup of the subtle Marshall valve burblings, the spitty little hummings and grumblings, as the amp mumbles to itself - niiiice ....
On my "new", old laptop internal speakers - in pretty decent form, the vibe is happening full bore 🙂. One track, Voodoo Chile Blues, is a very spacious live performance, and there is a beautiful pickup of the subtle Marshall valve burblings, the spitty little hummings and grumblings, as the amp mumbles to itself - niiiice ....
Delain - Not Enough, from album We Are The Others
Has recently got taste for symphonic metal with female singers....
Has recently got taste for symphonic metal with female singers....
I'm still listening to my old tapes of music I created in the 90's, have found a few gems I'd forgotten about.
Can you give examples?
Can you give examples?
Whole Lotta Woman - The Mojo Corner
On the the laptop, to wake it up, 😉. This is music I can always listen to - well recorded, driving, good time Blues - clean drums, dirty guitar with valve breakup now and again - everyone's having a great time !!
On the the laptop, to wake it up, 😉. This is music I can always listen to - well recorded, driving, good time Blues - clean drums, dirty guitar with valve breakup now and again - everyone's having a great time !!
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I was actually considering to schedule an US west coast company trip around right now, but couldn't get it to fit :-( Would have been great with a couple of double concerts....
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