So, I’ve made, or at least started to make my drelf… or shrawer. Basically, the laptop is going to lurk, when I’m using the desk, on a combination between a shelf and a drawer, with an adaptor to connect it to the rather less exciting Acer monitor I picked up (I can’t entirely decide if the scabby quality of the output is from the very, very cheap MiniDisplayPort to VGA adaptor, or from the monitor being scabby. Looking at the output I think it’s the monitor tho’). It also connects to a dinky little powered USB hub that means I connect one connector to the laptop and get mouse/keyboard/M-Audio FastTrack and if I can find the drivers for it, the Miglia Evolution.
The drelf, which is what I’m calling it, pulls out and has a thingie to retain the cables when disconnected. I’m quite overly excited by this fun toy, and have been using it to bribe myself into working on my essay :)
The good thing about this is it makes me feel less annoyed about the death of the ViewSonic VMP74. The dinky little media player from the lounge is now deceased – at 1 year and 1 month old. To make it worse, it sat in its box for several months before we used it. But Scan computers are, it seems, unclear on the law (Sale of Goods Act 1979) and their responsibilities, so are refusing to do anything about it. Arguing alternately that it’s lasted as long as it should and that I can’t prove it’s broken. Obviously the fact it doesn’t work counts for nothing.
*sigh*
I hate arguing with companies, and would just like to tell them to behave like a decent company. But we’ll see what Trading Standards say, since Scan have stated they’re not going to do anything about it. It’s all terribly tedious. For the sake of £50 they’ve completely screwed a 10 year customer relationship.
Still, now I’ve got to get back to hacking about 300 words out of my essay. :-/
