Well, its been a horrible day all around. At work a raid array with a good portion of our data was destroyed more or less, and I find out that the backup is over a month old. A major ouch for anyone who’s had that happen. As I took over the it admin related tasks fairly recently its a bit of a bad foot to start on.

The other news was of course related to my laptop that is still missing after nearly four months. At this point I don’t think I’ll actually be getting a machine back to be put simply. When one is told that you are going to get a new machine, a natural assumption is that you will get the same exact machine as you have currently, or a model that is comparative in features. This of course does not happen with me and Adamant. In my call with Tom today I find out that they the Asus Z81K machine is no longer in production and that I was going to be upgraded to the Z81L, they were just waiting on the processor to come in. Some chief difference between the machines…

Z81K (This is the machine I purchased)
1680×1050 resolution
Athlon64 4200+ processor
built in wireless g
ATI 9700 video card
gigabit ethernet
base price $1299

Z81L (This is the machine that it’s to be replaced by)
1280×800 resolution
Pentium 4 (supposedly) 3.2 ghz
built in wireless b
SiS based video card with shared memory.
10/100 ethernet
base price $1049

I don’t think I really need to say more then that.