March 7, 2007

Welcome to the 21st Century

Status report: Laptop procured, Vista operational.

I'm liking the new machine so far; there's nothing quite as satisfying as crunching away on a new keyboard. It's a pretty machine, it's fast, even with the new OS, and Vista has some neat eye-candy. One neat desktop feature is something called gadgets; they're little doohickeys you stick to your desktop that can show you the weather, a calendar, stock quotes, etc. (I believe that's something that's been in OS X for a long time now, where they're called widgets. Gadgets, widgets... good luck tracing the lineage on that one, patent lawyers!) Also, if you're a lunatic like me who hates that XP stuffs all of your files into C:\Documents and Settings\blah blah blah\..., you will take great joy (seriously) in the new directory structure. It's much, much simpler. What about Minesweeper? It is as challenging as ever.

My one major complaint thus far is that, sometime during the past 3 years, Dell changed the keyboard layout of their laptops, as well as the location of the headphone jack. Those bastards. You call that a business?! Also, it takes a little while to boot up and to shutdown. Can anyone else with Vista confirm or deny this phenomenon?

I would share more of these keen insights, but I have roughly 8 * 10^53 more apps to install tonight. We'll talk more tomorrow, if I make it that far.

Posted by Cody at March 7, 2007 10:27 PM
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