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Re: Laptop Shopping
« Reply #25 on: August 29, 2008, 09:22:12 AM »
Cool!

Yeah, I'm the same way.  When I bought my last monitor I went into our local Circuit City to get a good look at it in person... and then went home and promptly ordered it on Amazon.   :-D
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Re: Laptop Shopping
« Reply #26 on: September 08, 2008, 10:58:39 AM »
Laptop arrived today!

I've been spending most of the morning de-crapifing the thing, then installing the must haves, like firefox, etc.

So far I'm pretty happy, not liking Vista all that much at the moment but I'll give it a shot.

Will post more when I have to chance to really use it
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Re: Laptop Shopping
« Reply #27 on: September 08, 2008, 12:55:48 PM »
Vista is getusedtoable. Pop the analog clock with the second-hand up on the sidebar, and also maybe the CPU Meter, a slide show, the FRAK RSS feed and maybe a radio feed. Sidebar nosehair clippers are Vista's little spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.

Wait... what was that sound? It sounded like a loud, derisive snort from somewhere out of Minnesota.
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Re: Laptop Shopping
« Reply #28 on: September 08, 2008, 01:49:00 PM »
Quote from: ivan on September 08, 2008, 12:55:48 PM
Vista is getusedtoable. Pop the analog clock with the second-hand up on the sidebar, and also maybe the CPU Meter, a slide show, the FRAK RSS feed and maybe a radio feed. Sidebar nosehair clippers are Vista's little spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.

Wait... what was that sound? It sounded like a loud, derisive snort from somewhere out of Minnesota.

First thing I did was turn off the damn sidebar, I only have a 12" monitor I didn't want to spare the real-estate

So far I'm liking, the tablet and touchscreen are pretty cool.  Not sure how really usable they are.  When I get it home tonight I'll put it on the network there and put some photos and music on it.

Performance is pretty good, every now and again it just hesitates, not sure what it's trying to do but twice now it's just become unresponsive for a minute while something goes on.  I'll have to keep an eye on it
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Re: Laptop Shopping
« Reply #29 on: September 08, 2008, 01:49:20 PM »
Quote from: ivan on September 08, 2008, 12:55:48 PM
Vista is getusedtoable. Pop the analog clock with the second-hand up on the sidebar, and also maybe the CPU Meter, a slide show, the FRAK RSS feed and maybe a radio feed. Sidebar nosehair clippers are Vista's little spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.

Wait... what was that sound? It sounded like a loud, derisive snort from somewhere out of Minnesota.


Nah.  I've used Vista quite a bit, via VMWare.  It is getusedtoable.  I wouldn't install it on anything, mind you, if there was something else better that's already installed.  But it can be dealt with.
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Re: Laptop Shopping
« Reply #30 on: September 08, 2008, 02:01:18 PM »
I just really loathe the cutesy bells and whistles with which MS adorns its products. And I loathe myself for falling for this latest one. I totally dig the sidebar. Of course, at work I have dual monitors, so real estate's not an issue, but even on my laptop I feel, oddly, lonely when I turn the sidebar off.

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