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The cat knows. But doesn't care

Unfortunately we've had to change plans. Dell wouldn't deliver the laptop until the 21st or even 24th and the farewell party is the 17th, so we've decided to go for the Lenovo Yoga it's 8GB RAM, 256SSD, i5, ips screen with touch capabilities and just 1.2Kg (about 2 pounds)... the worst parts are it being a plastic chassis and that we don't have any references on its long term reliability. The good part is that despite not being pink it's fancy and fashionable, which our girl will love. Hopefully Had it been for me with those constraints I'd have got the Dell, but getting it after the celebration is a no-no, so hopefully it's better than the Ideapad a HP or an Acer. BTW, now that we're at it, any opinions about MSI laptops? I've heard very good comments about them from gamers.

Thank you very much guys, I think it's going to be a pink Dell Inspiron 15 7000. It's "good enough", fits the budget and leaves a bit of room to get extended care and insurance, maybe a pink matching bag

All Thinkpad T480 or T580 are beyond our budget. In range are the L480 and L580 and Exxx but I don't know how "worse" these might be compared to the Ts. It's a pity the Ideapad aren't working well, it seems a fine machine. Most of those pink laptops are more expensive than we can afford, thanks for the hints, Grahame. The skins look fine they were one of the alternative solutions we were considering, but I can't find them near enough to be sure they get here by the 15th-16th (the farewell party is the 17th). Any opinions about the Lenovo Yoga's? Those hinged devices seem very versatile and they have a couple of models within range, but unless very well made they seem a bit weak.

Our last year resident is finishing next week and the graduation gift is going to be a laptop she needs. The budget is about 900 bucks (800€). These days I'm not that sure that Toshiba is as reliable as it used to be, nor that all HP are bullshit. Things change too fast, specially if you don't pay much attention. I've looked at several options with 15" screen. Other desirable feature is it's available in pink No especial needs of HDD size, RAM, connectivity... Wifi, good screen and lightweight, that's all, she won't be playing games or editing video. These are my candidates in no special order Dell Inspiron 15 7000 (i5, 256SSD, 8GB, ips screen, GeForce® MX150) I think it's the only one in pink. Acer Aspire 5 (i7, 8GB, 125SSD+1TBHDD, Geforce MX130) Lenovo Ideapad 330 15ICH (i7, 8GB, MX1050, 1TBHDD,) The Toshibas I've looked at are more expensive than the allotted budget, and honestly I have no idea or any references about current Asus, Huawei, Medion or other brands completely new to me. Any suggestions, not only of brands/models but features that could be desirable are very welcome.

Happy Birthday, Shelly!!! I wish you have a great day and a fantabulous year ahead.

It's available on Tidal, they released it in January. I'll listen to it later this week. It's on Bandcamp too.

I listened to this this evening. Pretty good, among the Wesseltoft's albums I've enjoyed the most.

Thanks for the comment, Dusty. I watched the video a few days ago and didn't like the tune much, so I thought this new album would be more of the same, which becomes tiring to me. I'll give it a listen on Tidal.

I watched the negative harmony video a couple of weeks ago. I think it's a different expression of the use of parallel tonalities and the conception of a tonality as whole that would include the chords and modes derived from its tonic, subdominant, dominant and both parallel (the ascending and descending) tonalities. When improvising it all comes down to how fast you can think and play it.

The soon to be released album by one of my favourite singer-songwriters, freely available at NPR Rhiannon Giddens - There is no Other

Condolences, Craig [emoji22]

Yup, this one works. Pure 80's technopop.

Not really, just in some sort of black hole which developed after an infinite loop of nonsense.

This video is not available, Dusty

Sorry, Jacob. Maybe you need some time on your own to figure out what you really want.

Which level are you? Humbly going to bed

Happy Birthday, Jeffy!!!

Bruce Hornsby - Absolute Zero Released this week, freshly available at Tidal

Very interesting, thanks for your replies

So if I understand correctly it's as though your drivers were put into a polyester bag covering them from dust. No idea what's TPU. Then for relatively short listening sessions on a dry and fresh climate it'd be OK closing the ports. Will that be easy or needs some complex dismounting to be done?

Dido's latest deceived me a bit. Did you like it?

I wish you provide some sort of dust protection for the membranes and the stator, that scared me a bit. So on places of lower humidity than Mumbai it'd be OK to close the ports? I'm all in on great bass response. Not the quantity but the quality and depth.

I have a silver gray dial Longines that looks better on a dark gray strap than on a black one. Dark blue also combines pretty well, so take your poison. The tone in the pic looks like it'd be a good match to the OP dial. Good luck

Happy Birthday, Tyler!!