Comments on: new toy came preloaded with vista, wish I could play with it http://www.beerorkid.com/2008/01/30/new-toy-came-preloaded-with-vista-wish-i-could-play-with-it/ A bunch of useless crap Lincoln Ne Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:34:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: beerorkid http://www.beerorkid.com/2008/01/30/new-toy-came-preloaded-with-vista-wish-i-could-play-with-it/#comment-32566 beerorkid Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:09:51 +0000 http://www.beerorkid.com/2008/01/30/new-toy-came-preloaded-with-vista-wish-i-could-play-with-it/#comment-32566 I wiped the restore partition so the disk needed to be made. Love the small form factor. Not gonna game on it, and the graphics are lame, but it is perfect for what we will use it for. Cannot believe how light and powerful it is. I would love an uber laptop that could play games sometime, but for now this hits the spot. Good thing is vista is on a 50gb partition and ubuntu is loaded up and rocking. I wiped the restore partition so the disk needed to be made.
Love the small form factor. Not gonna game on it, and the graphics are lame, but it is perfect for what we will use it for. Cannot believe how light and powerful it is.
I would love an uber laptop that could play games sometime, but for now this hits the spot.

Good thing is vista is on a 50gb partition and ubuntu is loaded up and rocking.

]]> By: PsycoJuana http://www.beerorkid.com/2008/01/30/new-toy-came-preloaded-with-vista-wish-i-could-play-with-it/#comment-32553 PsycoJuana Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:56:17 +0000 http://www.beerorkid.com/2008/01/30/new-toy-came-preloaded-with-vista-wish-i-could-play-with-it/#comment-32553 Yeah yeah games on linux is like playing games on macs OS. HEHEHE Hate how Laptops come all the extra BS installed. But u know what I DO LOVE MY 17" er !! I mean yeah its a few pounds but performs almost as good as my home pc and man i JAM out on bf2 like almost the whole night at work(working third it sucks but i get to play BF2 all night LOL) And watching movies is a extra PLUS on a wide 17". So i say GAMER = XP and Heavy Laptop. Over worked Geeks - small tiny laptops running linux. lololol but i do need a Linux server loaded for cs!!! Yeah yeah games on linux is like playing games on macs OS. HEHEHE Hate how Laptops come all the extra BS installed. But u know what I DO LOVE MY 17″ er !! I mean yeah its a few pounds but performs almost as good as my home pc and man i JAM out on bf2 like almost the whole night at work(working third it sucks but i get to play BF2 all night LOL) And watching movies is a extra PLUS on a wide 17″. So i say GAMER = XP and Heavy Laptop. Over worked Geeks - small tiny laptops running linux. lololol
but i do need a Linux server loaded for cs!!!

]]> By: joetaxpayer http://www.beerorkid.com/2008/01/30/new-toy-came-preloaded-with-vista-wish-i-could-play-with-it/#comment-32548 joetaxpayer Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:22:49 +0000 http://www.beerorkid.com/2008/01/30/new-toy-came-preloaded-with-vista-wish-i-could-play-with-it/#comment-32548 One of the unexpected 'perks' of getting a thinkpad was it has the vista install image loaded into the primary partition with the bios and all of the hardware drivers. It takes up about 12gb, but I have the 'luxury' of being able to reinstall vista at anytime without having to worry about recovery CDs or product keys. I also minimized when I upgraded (from a 17in Dell laptop to my new 14in IBM). The wife went for a 15in Dell at the same time, and I am glad I went with the 14. It is way lighter and easier to transport. Even though I had never had a successful linux install, I knew within the first (oh lets say) 15 seconds that me and vista were not going to work out. I am glad I braved through the frustrating experience of getting Ubuntu up and running. I still have my nOOb moments when I try to install a beta program (lets face it, you have to have at least a minor in computer nerd to get it to work), but I am more than happy with the switch. Linux has come a long way in that respect since back in 2000 when I tried out redhat 8. Now if only we can recruit the numbers necessary to get mainstream games linux compatible. I would drop my XP partition like a bad habit. One of the unexpected ‘perks’ of getting a thinkpad was it has the vista install image loaded into the primary partition with the bios and all of the hardware drivers. It takes up about 12gb, but I have the ‘luxury’ of being able to reinstall vista at anytime without having to worry about recovery CDs or product keys.

I also minimized when I upgraded (from a 17in Dell laptop to my new 14in IBM). The wife went for a 15in Dell at the same time, and I am glad I went with the 14. It is way lighter and easier to transport.

Even though I had never had a successful linux install, I knew within the first (oh lets say) 15 seconds that me and vista were not going to work out. I am glad I braved through the frustrating experience of getting Ubuntu up and running. I still have my nOOb moments when I try to install a beta program (lets face it, you have to have at least a minor in computer nerd to get it to work), but I am more than happy with the switch. Linux has come a long way in that respect since back in 2000 when I tried out redhat 8.

Now if only we can recruit the numbers necessary to get mainstream games linux compatible. I would drop my XP partition like a bad habit.

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