New Laptop
My new laptop arrived in the mail today. It is a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ640. It has a 13.3 inch wide screen display and a Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 2 GHz. I upgraded the ram to 4GB. It is small and beautiful.
It also came with Windows Vista. Since I need a windows computer for programming a microcontroller in one my my classes, I decided to give Vista a shot. When I booted up the computer, I found that Sony had decided to fill the computer with crappy software so the first thing I did was reinstall Vista. That’s one thing that Microsoft figured out, the installation process is much better than installing XP. Immediately after booting, I remembered all the things I don’t like about Windows, I had a hard time finding all the drivers I needed, and some of them wouldn’t completely install. I am going to give it a shot though, we’ll see how long it lasts before I upgrade to Windows XP.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:35 am
One lesson I learned on my last (before current) laptop is that before reinstalling, you should find all the drivers (usually in a directory on a hard drive somewhere) and save them before wiping the disk. This saved me a lot of frustration when my current laptop came (thankfully, with XP and not Vista).
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I have a ‘why I hate Vista’ file on my desktop…