New Laptop

I have a new laptop. Now that I am a gentleman of leisure and unable to sponge off work, I felt the need. The old Lenovo I paid £200 for four years ago when transitioning from Qualcomm to Roku is too small slow and weak. Here we see how gloriously sleek and slender the new one is.

It is a Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro 360, Intel Core Ultra 7 Processor, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 16" 3K Touch Screen, 1.66 kg, H12.80 x W355.40 x D252.20mm, Super AMOLED, 2880 x 1800. There are a confusing variety of options; I'm not at all sure I needed the "360" bit, which means it folds back like a tablet, but after looking around I concluded this was about the best I could get without spending ages possibly saving a few hundred pounds. This is from John Lewis: I wandered around there - it was where M got whatevre she has - and it was their only product that at all caught my eye. The screen is lovely and survives well against a bright background. And is also touchscreen, though I don't find myself using that much.

Here's the proof that it has no missing pixels yet. It has a combined power-and-fingerprint-sensor that appears to work. Here's it updating the BIOS to P14RHB.