So ….. I have just recieved my Rudd Laptop — or should I say notebook as the thing is tiny with a miniscule screen that is sure to send most of us not already vision affected by students crapy handwriting further vision impaired !! In fact if I am wearing my contacts I doubt that I will be able to read the screen at all. 

I have ranted and raved about he things for a while but I have to say that now i have got it up and running (a feat I am positive is beyond most teachers) and am sitting here on the first nght of the hols, at home, in front of the TV playing with it – it appears not too shabby.

Rumours about what they will and won’t do abound — the onboard software is actualy impressive — free stuff as audacity, some free music notation software, a stack of adobe stuff, itunes, some cool presentation software, Activ, and the Smartboard Notwbook software (thank god — activ is for babies), and heaps more. They are running Windows 7 (the one after vista) which is ok, but they only have 160g harddrives, and 2 gig off rsm which  am thinking is good for a little machine but we will see ! ooh and you can get stickers to change the colour of the outside — I am going to make a label for mine that says “I wish I was a mac” !

Mind you for those of us that have been using our own laptops for years — there is just the luxury of using a DET paid for one instead of spending our own money for them.

The techo boys have set me a challenge — “see if I can break it” so stay tuned and I will see how quick I can fry the insides !!

Apple must be smarting from not getting this gig!