This doesn't seem to work with XP Home, or at least, I couldn't make it work. With XP Pro it worked first try.

Having achieved this, it was time to try out the notebook as a media center PC. At this, it gets 2/5 overall but 4/5 for me. It has neither conventional analog (S-Video, component) or digital (DVI, HDMI) outputs, but it has VGA, and so does my television.

The VGA signal quality is fine, as you'd expect, but this wasn't true of my old Compaq notebook, which had visible movement artifacts in any large white areas. I thought it was the cheap VGA cable, but it's not.

Sound output is fine - if you are running from battery! The power supply puts a lot of noise on the headphone socket, which is the only audio output. You can configure that socket to produce SPDIF, which should eliminate the problem, but my TV doesn't have SPDIF input. (I think.)

Since I can get six hours of video playback from one charge, I'm not going to worry too much.

And so, I finished watching Kamichu! over the weekend. And put up shelves. A little shelving, a little Kamichu!

Kamichu! is very very good. More on that later.

Having shelves is also very very good, particularly when you've spent 18 months without.

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