10.24.08

Hell Has Frozen-Over - I bought a Macbook Pro

Posted in Laptops, Macs, Windows at 4:27 pm by john

My old PC laptop served me well, but….

I loved my Acer Ferarri laptop when I got it two years ago.  Fast, good looking, lots of features like a card reader.  It has served me well.   When I got the Ferarri, it had Windows XP preloaded on it.  I immediately wiped it and installed XP fresh.  Ran great for quite while. But a few months ago, I decided that it was time to wipe XP and reload it again, because it was starting to slow down (as windows does over time).  This time, I decided to give Vista a shot, since it works OK on some of our other systems here at the office.

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07.30.08

New Mac laptops coming out this fall, might make the switch

Posted in Laptops at 9:41 pm by john

There are a lot of rumors about the new Mac laptops, and you can see some spy photos of the new cases circling the net.    Looks like they will be ready sometime in September.  Computerworld has a rumor page about it saying that it will have a glass multi-touch mousepad.  Pretty neat.  I’ll wait and see, but I have been a hard-core PC user for a long time.    I am ready to try a Mac out, but I won’t get one until these new ones come out.   They sound great.

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04.05.08

What I am buying for my next laptop

Posted in Gadgets, Laptops at 6:11 pm by john

I don’t use a desktop computer anymore
I’ve gone 100% laptop, and I really don’t miss having a big desktop computer any longer. I get asked a lot by friends and customers what computer they should buy. My advice is that if you are a businessperson that needs to be closely tied to email, you should just get a laptop and forget the desktop. Laptop sales are now greater than desktop sales, and there is a reason for that. At our office, everyone used to have desktop machines. Now, we have several new employees that are only using laptops besides me. I expect everyone to be on laptops in the future. I also use a docking station, which allows me to have dual monitors when I get to work. I just plug into the dock, and my second 24″ monitor boots up – works great. All of our staff at work has either two monitors, or a large 24″ monitor. I’ll never give up having two screens, and the 15″ laptop screen combined with a 24″ flat panel gives me all the room I need to have a large workspace.

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