Happy as a clam this morning, cliche as it sounds working from starbucks, with a steamy mug of caffeine, sun beaming in and banging out powerpoints on a new little friend mr thinkpad.
You may all know me from my long-time relationship with mr tablet but I finally broke down and bought one of those radical machines with a keyboard on it. Unusual deal too, $650 a shiny thinkpad on ebay. Nothing like a cheap-and-chearful yet unbreakable thinkpad. Not the currentest model (X31) but score of a deal 12″ 3.4lb (mmm) 1.7GHz PM, and ATI graphics.
These graphics come with a near comic 16MB of RAM (it’s on-chip is why it’s so slight) but still more than enough to kick around XP or even Vista in classic mode at decent resolutions (I *heart* clasic mode, there’s a post to be made about that subject too, I feel like I owe MSoft a vista post, funny how that works, though I don’t if they’ll like to hear my impressions of Aero).
The catch is, I like MacOS far less, and don’t get me started on linux…. [dons falme suit…]