Windows 7 is released publicly today. I grabbed a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium intending to install it on my mediacenter this weekend, but since there was no good show to record tonight, I went ahead and installed it right away. Windows 7 x64 installation was pretty sweet and smooth, but once again the [...]
Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
8 Nov
Partitioned Wind
Our MSI Wind netbook arrived on Thursday. It worked as advertised. One notable thing I’d like to mention is that the MSI Wind came with pre-partitioned hard disk, C:\ for OS and D:\ for data. Nice.
2 Nov
Sweet and sour netbook
I have been looking for a netbook for my wife, who has been “borrowing” my laptop since we sold her MacBook a few months ago. So when I found a $50 rebate valid for MSI Wind purchases only in October at 11pm, October 31, I was enpowered with the executive responsibility to make a swift but monumental [...]
12 Jul
New DVD drive for mediacenter
Two weeks ago the DVD drive in my HTPC/mediacenter bit the dusk and called it quits after almost 2 years of faithful service. It was made by NEC, and it was a noisy bugger.
So I was in the market for a DVD drive. I had two choices, buy another DVD drive or perhaps [...]
30 May
Bye bye MacBook
A few weeks ago the battery of my wife’s MacBook died. I could buy a new battery and continue my Mac journey, but I decided to put it up for sale on Craigslist. That was this morning at 1am.
The MacBook is now gone, and I don’t foresee another Mac in my home for [...]
29 Jan
MacDongle
Yet another Apple-hostile blog post: Why Doesn’t Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero?. Can’t say I disagree.
I like this one’s comparison of Macs to hardware dongles. I like the article even more (and Apple less) when I think of the tight controls Apple is going to place over iPhone applications.
11 Jan
Second HDTV tuner
Got myself a second HDTV tuner for my mediacenter. $79.99 – $30 + tax + free shipping, I’d say a pretty good deal. There is also a $10 rebate that I need to mail out soon.
The package arrived today. I installed and configured the PCI card without incident. I can now [...]
20 Nov
Mac vs PC ads
I have a MacBook as well as an iPhone, but that doesn’t mean I can stand the BS advertising campaign from Apple championing how superior the Mac is.
I have three Vista machines at home, and while they are not perfect, I am actually happier with them than with the MacBook running OS X. The Mac [...]
14 Oct
Desktop PC 2007
A few weeks ago a friend of mine got a good deal on a Gateway PC. He bought it to edit his photos, which coincidentally will also come from a Nikon D80. While my laptop offers ubiquitous surfing opportunities, it comes up short in the area of photo editing. My interests in the current state [...]
22 Mar
MacBook is overrated
Nowadays when people comment that they rather get a MacBook than a Windows-based laptop, my response generally is “MacBook is overrated”. Here is why:
MacBook’s glossy screen makes an unpleasant reading experience.
Its lack of dedicated PgUp and PgDn keys means lots of two-handed combos – the Fn key is on the left while the arrows [...]
