November 09, 2004

Just picked up a new laptop to replace Dudley who is just about 4 years old now. Dudley is a 600mhz Dell with a 20gig drive and 256meg of memory. Dudley served well for four years without a single failure other that the fact that it came with Windows ME. I cured that problem with a larger hard drive and Windows XP. Dudley will soon be moving to Nodedett One's house.

The replacement system is another Dell that I have named Mr. Peabody. Mr. Peabody just spent his first day working. Mr Peabody has a 2.8ghz processor, a 40 gig drive and 512 megs of memory. He also cost me about half of what Dudley cost.

I had to buy a new mouse as Dudley's was a PS2 mouse and Mr. Peabody does not have a PS2 port. I found an great litlle notebook mouse made by Logitech.

The mouse is USB and works on Mr. Peabody and Natasha the iBook without any software load. It is smaller than a normal size mouse and has a groove around the outside to wrap the cord when not in use. The USB plug has a snap that fits into the bottom of the mouse. I love that you can wrap up the cord around the mouse and lock the USB plug down protecting the optical sensor. I found mine at Best Buy for less than list price of course.

If you need a travel mouse I would highly recommend this one. It's so cute all wrapped up in itself. Good job Logitech.