<p>okay just curious, my ship date says 7/26 ..do we know offhand (cant remember) if the macromedia flash player thing was version 7 on the sci laptops? b/c my current laptop for some reason is giving me trouble about downloading that version to do alcoholedu, so imight just wait.. unless..wait we are going to be able to use our laptops with our internet connections at home right, before we get to princeton?</p>
<p>I think you have to download the player, but it's easy and free. I don't think SCI computers would give you trouble about downloading. </p>
<p>My ship date got pushed back AGAIN- to 7/25 this time. Did this happen to everyone?</p>
<p>My computer's finally been shipped! But it's being shipped from Shanghai, China! <em>wonders how long that's going to take to get to me...</em></p>
<p>The ibooks were updated today. A pretty worthless update, but one nonetheless. I'm getting my Powerbook tomorrow, I think.</p>
<p>My powerbook's still in Shanghai...</p>
<p>Mine too, zante. I was really excited about the change from "Processing order" to "Preparing shipment", but I'm really not sure about how long it'll take from Shanghai. I approximate that there will be one day to prepare shipment, one day on plane, one day in a california distribution center, and one day to get it to my house in CA. So I'm betting that I'll have mine by the 2nd or 3rd.</p>
<p>Uh huh...so +3 days to get to new york?
Mine says shipped and I can track it on FedEx, but it hasn't left the fedex facility yet...</p>
<p>i want my thinkpad! mines still "in process"</p>
<p>what do you all think of the sony vaio s460?</p>
<p>But it hasn't been three weeks since you ordered it, right?
I ordered my powerbook on July 7th. <em>throws fist at apple</em></p>
<p>DON'T get the Sony S460!!
I got a S380 and returned it a week later because it just plain broke! It wouldn't start up and I hadn't done anything unusual with it. If you search online, there are a LOT of people with the same problem. I think sony has a defect with he S-series and I've heard that they have bad customer support. Also, people say that the 460 is even HOTTER than the 380 and the 380 was like burning my hand.</p>
<p>no... i think i ordered it a week and a half ago.</p>
<p>i have a friend who has the s360 and loves it. he advised me to get the S series.<br>
also, how hot is HOT. my dell laptop now is pretty hot and but its fine.</p>
<p>Sony is pretty hit-or-miss...some of them will be perfect while others will be fatally flawed. They won't replace it unless you have like 7 dead pixels...some of them, like mine, just stop working...and if it's outside of the 30 day period for returns, it costs a lot of money to fix it. Good for your friend, but if you decide to get one, you should be aware that you're taking a big risk. </p>
<p>I don't know how to compare the heat...you would never put it on your lap for example...and I twiddled with the power settings but it doesn't seem to do much. It's definitely hotter than the compaq and the IBM thinkpad that I have in my house right now. </p>
<p>It's a shame because the vaio is pretty, has a really good screen and when you think sony you usually think quality, but yea, it was a huge disappointment for me. </p>
<p>I would recommend a thinkpad or powerbook if you're getting a new laptop.</p>
<p>A friend of mine has a Sony "thin & light" (probably S series, but i don't know for sure)... and it's a pretty, graceful, functioning machine. So it's really luck of the draw, I guess.</p>
<p>My one-year-old Toshiba died this past spring, and took three and a half weeks for them to fix it... not cool... and not the only issue I've had with their tech support. So that's my current gripe.</p>
<p>Read here for more complaints about sony vaios...</p>
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Is there a weblink with this year's computer clusters? And when you print something, do you have to copy it from your computer to a main computer using a disk, or do you just print from your room and go collect it from the cluster? Do papers ever go missing?</p>
<p>You can just print from your room and go collect it, but I would guess that you have to be quick or it might get misplaced. I'll probably just keep files on a memory stick and print it out at a cluster computer, since I'm probably not SUPER close to one.</p>
<p>When you print from your computer, the job gets sent to a machine next to the printer. It doesn't get printed until you physically go to the printer and "release" the job on that machine, so you won't actually have to rush over before whatever you're printing gets buried in 1000 pages of econ notes or something. I think unreleased print jobs get purged at midnight or after a time delay, so don't take too long either.</p>
<p>Is your job released when you press the button, or is there a print queque?</p>
<p>Since there is physically only one printer at most sites, there is a cue, but only in order of release. So usually the most you have to wait is for that one person who got downstairs before you did. If people are printing long sets of notes or hundreds of flyers, they usually leave a note saying you can cancel to print what you need.</p>