From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com   
      
   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant Lukas Mariman covertly transmitting a message to renegade   
   friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >Greeting, carbon units!   
   >   
   >I just went crazy (again) and got me a new PC.   
   >   
   >After years of upgrading my existing box piece by piece every so often, I   
   >wanted to take the other route and got me a brand PC.   
   >   
   >I bought an Acer Aspire M3610, which has an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, and   
   >comes with Vista Home Premium (and some assorted software included)   
   >preloaded.   
   >   
   >Naturally, there don't seem to be any physical copies of Vista or anything   
   >else that was installed  - instead there's some bare-bones documentation   
   >that doesn't really help at all, and a few blank "recovery" DVDs.   
   >   
   >Still figuring out how I am supposed to make a backup of Vista. :-/   
   >   
   >Anyway, just sharing this touching stuff with you dudes/dudettes. If any of   
   >you have Acer stuff as well, I'd love to read what you think of it. Any   
   >experiences, horror stories etc. :-)   
      
   I have increasing motivation to buy me a new laptop.  One that can do   
   media/games, etc. without blinking.  Something that can double as   
   movie screen as well as work-anywhere, do multiple things workhorse.   
   With HDMI output.  Anyone got any suggestions?   
      
   I don't personally have anything in particular to say about Acer.  Did   
   you get an XP disk with your previous PC then?  That is what I infer.   
   I didn't with mine.  It came on its own HD partition and I had to burn   
   my own disks.  I burned both a 4-CD version and a DVD version.  So, I   
   would expect you need to do the same with Vista.  Don't put it off.   
   Figure out what you need to do and get those disks burned without   
   delay!   
      
   Netrunner   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)