Comments | chadu: New 'Puter

chadu

New 'Puter

Nov 04, 2008 09:31

Last night, I bought a new laptop at Best Buy to replace the one I inherited from boadiccea.

The new machine is a Toshiba Satellite A305-S6858It's very spiffy looking ( Read more... )

gah, day-job, 240 dollars worth of puddin'

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boadiccea November 4 2008, 15:42:02 UTC

Do yourself a flavor - get Vista off and use XP. Vista is ick.

semioticity November 4 2008, 17:21:18 UTC

Agreed and amplified: why did you get 64-bit Vista?

chadu November 4 2008, 17:53:28 UTC

It was what was on the machine.

(Is currently nigh-impossible to walk into a store and get anything BUT Vista.)

easy_living November 4 2008, 18:04:38 UTC

I believe the magic phrase is "I want a Vists licence with an XP downgrade". But I'm not sure whether all computer manufacturers offer it as an option.

I have my PC set up as dual-boot with 64-bit Vista and XP Pro, for similar reasons. Our AIO laser printer doesn't seem to have a 64-bit driver available either.

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nixieq November 4 2008, 15:56:52 UTC

yeah, i've heard Teh Bad about vista as well. OTOH, i have an older-model toshiba satellite and it's just dandy. congrats on the new addition!

reverancepavane November 4 2008, 17:39:36 UTC

The Toshiba Satellite range aren't bad laptops at least until it comes to the time to upgrade device drivers or install a variant OS (as in, not the one that comes pre-installed, even if it is another version of Windows). Then I've found that they are a veritable pain custom drivers everywhere. Not that you are likely to encounter this problem [not having to deal with a unified computing environment with customised OS], but I just thought I'd add a warning.
"Hates thems I do. Nasty hobbitsses..."

geekchick November 4 2008, 17:54:03 UTC

As the voice of dissent, one of my coworkers is running Vista and after the initial learning curve with the security model, it's been completely painless.

What's the deal with the speakers?

chadu November 4 2008, 17:57:35 UTC

The Director of IT here says it's six of one, half dozen of another.

IMAO, all new MS products are mixed suck and cool... but older ones have had the chance for people to get used to the suck-cool intermix.

The external speakers plugged into the earphone jack. #1: the jack on the new lappy is a different size, and #2: it is DIRECTLY in front of the keyboard, so even if I fix #1, wires will dangle (onoz, kitteh toys).

tth November 4 2008, 20:10:06 UTC

congrads on the new machine.

If A's parents can deal with vista you should be fine.

K