I'm going to need the royalties from that new novel...

I've just been window-shopping for a new laptop. My elderly Thinkpad will have to be retired next year, when WinXP goes off extended support. Ideally I'd have replaced it already, because it's pretty creaky when I have to run Dragon, even if it can happily handle the rest of my software.

I've just specced up the descendent of my T43. I have 3 disability-related requirements -- as much CPU and RAM as I can afford, to throw at Dragon (minimum 2.4 Ghz and 4GB to run all utilities on the current version, ideally more) and as light as possible for when I need to cart it about. Other than that I don't actually much care as long as it's physically robust, because I don't do anything else requiring much muscle, other than the occasional bout of image editing.

1500 pounds for my ideal minimum configuration. That's before I add the docking station. *Ouch*. Now, the reason for buying another over-specced business-grade machine is that Elderly Thinkpad has lasted seven years and is still perfectly usable other than the Dragon issue, in spite of being hauled around the world several times. But even so, ouch. So I looked at a couple of other options. And really, by the time I've paid for the add-ons to get the necessary CPU/RAM, even cheap home machines aren't so cheap, and that's before adding the "lightweight" requirement.

"Lightweight" may be less important, if I switch to cloud computing so that I can use the iPad for my only travel computer. But I'd really rather not. :-(

Loose Id calls for submissions

A couple of new calls for submissions from my main publisher. Note that they're a general erotic romance publisher -- all genres, all genders, all combinations, as long as there's heat integral to the story, and at least a Happy For Now ending. Yes, I do mean "all genders", not "both genders".


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