[plug] New toy just arrived

[Shannon Carver]

Hi Richard,

On second thoughts, I apologise about this.  Who am I to say which OS
you should use!!  I think it comes from too much exposure to Windows
support over time as well as dealing with clients, boss's, managers, etc
etc etc who hate everything new thing that comes out and make a point of
denouncing it.

Enjoy what sounds like a fantastic laptop, and get linux on there ASAP. 
All this Windows talk is making PLUG shudder :P



meyerri wrote:
>>> So what I'm doing is
>>> 1) booting Bill's wet dream - gawd XP is fouler than W2k (whish is,
>>> incidentally not *too* bad)
>>>       
>> Sorry, but I could handle when people said that pre-SP1, I even let
>> it go
>> after that, alike to the Win3.11 loving nazi's (years after Windows95
>> came
>> out) spouted their ongoing love for Win3.xx and its nastiness....  
>> But
>> please!  That argument (Win2k > WinXP) is dead and buried.
>>     
>
> I'm just putting it the way I see it, and I upgraded from 98 to 2000
> about 18 months ago because of stability. All I use Windows for at
> home (until this job) is gaming. This job requires VPN clients that
> (sort of) only run on Windows, or you have to backlevel your Linuz
> quite a bit.
>
> I used 2K while at IBM and was quite impressed with it in that in 2
> years there, I only BSOD'd about three times, except for bad
> automatic updates. Admittedly the software I was using wasn't the
> world's most intensive.
>   
>> I'm no Windows Fanboy (anymore), but WinXP boots faster, runs better,
>> loads
>> apps quicker and is ten times better to look at on most machines I've
>> tried
>> it on even my initial Duron 700 (circa 2001 when XP first came out). 
>> I run
>> it currently on my old Compaq Armada Laptop (PIII 733, dual boot, of
>> course
>> :P) and where Win2k failed time and time again with regards to
>> performance
>> and power management (battery life, standby, etc) Windows XP charges
>> along
>> nicely.  Not to mention the fact it'll run even faster if you don't
>> like all
>> the colourful "bling" that any Win2k user will despise.
>>     
>
> That is probably what I despise most - foul "bling" for no real
> reason.
>   
>> It's a shame I'm still so dependant on Windows for my work (.NET
>> Development), but I'll never go near Windows 2000 (which was a
>> fantastic OS
>> in its time, mind you) again.
>>
>>     
> I don't have to be too dependant, but probably if I want to get the
> best out of this machine, without Linux, XP is the way to go ...  :-(
>   
>>> 2) checking that *all* components work under 'doze
>>> 3) deciding that a Synaptics pad is the invention of either the
>>>       
>> devil
>>     
>>> or Bill Gates - for some reason I have a "heavy finger" which
>>> transmits clicks when I'm trying to move the cursor - also the
>>>       
>> stupid
>>     
>>> thing doesn't realise that when I tap on the touchpad with my
>>>       
>> middle
>>     
>>> ("up-yours" or proctological) finger I want a *RIGHT* click - is
>>>       
>> that
>>     
>>> so hard?  So I've disabled taps there.
>>>
>>> Otherwise it smells new  ;-) and feels OK.  Having it now for close
>>> to 4 hours, I think a T43 would've been nicer. The IBM/Lenovo
>>> keyboards are definitely nicer. It boots up with infinte speed
>>>       
>> (well
>>     
>>> close), it even makes XP seem fast.
>>>
>>> Give you full feedback after I install OFOS.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> RM
>>>       
>>>> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 12:24 +0800, meyerri wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> .. not even 5 mins ago - my Dell 6400 with Radeon X1400 and 2GB
>>>>> memory.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've still got to unpack it, but I thought I'd brag a bit while
>>>>>           
>> I
>>     
>>>>> waited for my tea to cool, so I could continue ....
>>>>>
>>>>> Will let you know later about Linux compatibility.   ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> RichardM
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>
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