So, last night was pretty busy, lots going on.
- I have now made my first (and soon first personal) foray into the world of Windows Vista by putting Windows Vista Business on one of the ThinkCenter machines here in the office, which scored the amazingly stupendous “Experience Score” of … 1.0! Really, that’s just cause the graphics card sucks, so with a decent graphics card, one of our stock IBM’s here could easily be a 3.0, or a half decent Vista box. It will be installed on my Tablet PC shortly, and I expect it to run the same (low graphics, but high in other areas), and the Business edition has tweaks in place especially for tablets. Good stuff indeed!
- I also got signed up for Vonage to replace my home cell phone (if you still only have my 513 cell number, an e-mail would be good, it won’t work for a couple of weeks), and after a single night, it’s been respectable. Grant you, the true test will be how it holds up when I am on my 360 or doing something else very network intensive, OR how easy it is to port if I am on the road, but at least for this exact moment, I have no complaints and won’t mind the $15 or so a month I’m saving one bit!
Those are the quickie thoughts for now. More on huge flash drives and moving data around later.
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Pfffft, Vista? Who needs Vista? Vista is lame
You don’t need Vista when you have Beryl!
http://www.beryl-project.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM
Stephen: It will be the same as the 513 number … in a couple of weeks when the port is done. The temp number I have, I don’t even remember, so stick with the 614 celly for now.
Russo: Heck yeah, Beryl looks awesome! I’m sure people will begin to “shape” some of the Aero effects to do cool things, and at some point, I can’t wait to see Aero for the first time (none of the PC’s I have put Vista on have been good enough graphically for 3D anything, the Tablet is a 1.0 only because of onboard video). That 3D action is definitely where things are.
Dave in our office might put Vista on his D620, with NVidia 256MB Quadro built-in. THAT will be nice enough for Vista effects to see (and it’s a biometric machine too!)