"I've been calling her Peanut," Dairine admits, "but really, you can call her whatever you want. I haven't even named the OS yet--well, other than the long word in the Speech we used for saving it, but that's not really going to work here." She opens the laptop, and it beeps quickly to life. A flash of strange, almost Arabic-looking characters becomes a second of a logo--an apple without a bite out of it, in the upper left corner--and then the home screen appears, plain blue with a row of icons on the side.

"You can customise her however you want, I didn't mess with that. There's a touchpad, so you can drag and drop and type all you want, but like I said, you can do it all by voice, too. Go ahead, ask her something."