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August 31st, 2008
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August 12th, 2008
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At last; a press release from Dell released today that they’ve announced the E-series line of products – I can’t for the Latitud E6500 to appear in the Norwegian webshop so I can configure & order it 
Read the press release here.
Edit (some time later): Seems that it is allready available in the web shop – wooohooo!
Edit (2008/08/13): Guess what? I called Dell today to order the laptop. When we walked through the setup page over the phone and came to the Display section, there was no configuration with 1920×1200 available. After consulting one of his colleagues, the sales guy told me that I probably have to wait at least A COUPLE OF MONTHS before it is available.
This is outrageous – who wants a top-of-the-line laptop in Q3/2008 that does 1280×800 or 1440×900 @ 15.4″ !? I currently have an old Dell Latitude D610 – that is a couple of generations old – guess what? It sports a 1400×1050 resolution…
August 10th, 2008
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I used some of my weekend to reinstall Windows Vista on my AOpen SFF computer. The previous installation was from November 2006. I have passed the “Best before” date a long time ago, so I’m really looking forward to get all the bits, pieces & necessities installed.
When Dell hopefully releases the E-series this month, I will order a Latitude E6500 which will be the successor to the D830 model. It sports an eSATA port, GPS, DisplayPort, 1920×1200 WLED Display and is capable of managing 8GB of RAM.
I’m not sure yet if I’m going to order a new 24″ or the 27″ monitor yet, it may be that the 24″ is large enough for my desk (I have 2x 19″ Eizo doing 1280×1024 on it now).
July 1st, 2008
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Yesterday we went to IKEA to buy a bunch of stuff from our TODO list (turned out we actually forgot the handwritten list) and we ended up buying pretty much nothing. Partially because we didn’t remember all the items on the list, and partially because the where sold out.
When we moved through the Office department, containing nothing on our initial list, I noticed something I wanted to try for a long time; a laptop lap pillow. This thing is designed for two things; prevent lap / thighs to burn up (and for the male part of the population; ensuring that you have an OK sperm count the next time you try to reproduce) and see to that the laptop stays stabile in your lap.
My new-bought “Bräda” has a pillow filled with tiny Styrofoam balls and has a plastic table on the top that you put the laptop of choice on. On the side of the pillow, it has a small pocket where you can put your cellular phone, office supplies or whatever in. This blog post is in fact written on top of “Bräda”, and I am quite happy with it, even though I’ve only used it for half an hour or so.
Priced at about $18 it is something I would recommend everyone (male or not 
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