My sister was up this week, taking a break from the upper east side of Manhattan to visit her bro and attend a business seminar. She didn’t bring her laptop so she ended up using mine while she was here. Her basic usage is Firefox, AOL web mail, Exchange web mail for work, a word processor and a spreadsheet. It helped that she uses Firefox on windows but she really liked how easy it was to do what she wanted. When she downloaded a spreadsheet from her work mail and launched it, it brought up open office. She was able to view all the web pages she normally goes to and she found everything quickly without asking my help.

I’m setting up one of my older laptops for her – a Fujitsu Lifebook which is really slow but is small and good enough for her to take to her MBA class. “Do I have to worry about viruses because I think my Laptop has one?” Nope.

About the only thing she found really irritating was the synaptics touchpad. When are we going to fix that? I mean the scroll functionality is fairly useful and doesn’t get annoying if it screws up but the browser back gesture is just wrong. Is there anyone who seriously uses this feature?

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