Luggage and Laptops

March 27, 2011

Luggage and Laptops 

One day, in between a play interval of World Cup Cricket, I counted the number of little, little gadgets on the table and there were 12 in all which included the power pack and the USB battery I used, in case of power surge or drop in voltage due to everybody watching the cricket.

This is one thing I hate about laptops, so many luggage, in fact a gunny load of gadgets.

The list goes like this.

1. Battery cooler (only one USB port).

2. Extension for extra USB ports (two USB ports).

3. USB Mouse (now three ports adorned).
I hate fiddling with the laptop flat mouse. 

I prefer a real meaty mouse which I can grip and squeeze when I annoyed which is generally the case till Windows find a driver.

4. Power connector

5. UPS battery.

6. Power connection cord with multiple plug holes

7. TV USB circuit

8. Antenna

9. Mouse pad

10. Microphone or Speakers

11. USB extension cord to prevent clutter and get TV single.

12. CDs to install drivers and any instructions that come with the gadgets.

With all this I managed to get the TV single with cricket except other channels but I could not get Microsoft  to configure audio codecs and a message that the audio was not available.
This is something I hate, the drivers with Microsoft and OEM vendors.
 

It used to be the story with Linux 10 years ago but Linux will identify and configure audio automatically.

I hope by next Cricket World Cup will have a search engine to detect any TV single over the globe especially in villages set up where TV signals are weak and after the cricket can be used for education and games for children through TV.