It arrived at work today. I am very excited about it. Despite the fact that I am a "computer nerd" it has been a long time since I have bought myself new hardware. In a sense I have been lucky that my wife's brother frequently changes computers - you can do that with a high disposable income and no commitments - so we have been "recycling" his old ones.
The packaging is all very environmentally friendly. Moulded cardboard inserts to protect the laptop inside a cardboard box. The contents of the box are as follows: one laptop, one powercord, one power adapter and an A3 size piece of paperupon which was printed the Safety, Warranty and Setup Guide. That's it. Four things. Five if you count the piece of paper that applies if you live in Brazil, Phillipines or Singapore. I was at least expecting a recovery disk (if not a disk with the operating system on it). Instead there is a Lenovo_Recovery partition. Interesting.
When the computer starts up there is some first-time-only setup, like selecting the region, date/time, keyboard and network settings. Then it's time for a restart to apply them.
After restarting I agree to use the Norton security suite they pre-installed. I think it is just a trial since I did not order it. I usually use AVG (it's free and I trust it). Then it tells me I have a 5 GB account with SugarSync (like cloud storage) so I can access files remotely. And that's it... onto Windows 7!
This laptop comes with a finger-print scanner. With a swipe of my mighty finger, I can start Facebook! LOL, cool but I don't really know how practical it will really be. At the moment I am running a partition manager so I can keep the operating system (Windows 7) and my stuff separate. After that comes that sometimes fun and often labourious task of installing the software I want and need.
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