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 Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Yes, I think I might just be. I recently went out to Best Buy and grabbed a brand new Gateway laptop. That right there comes close to qualifying me as crazy. I just haven't been a huge fan of the cow for a long time, so it hurt a little to buy that one. But, it was the ONLY 64 bit, 4GB RAM, 250GB HD I could find for under $800. So, it's mine.

The second issue is it has a Red outer shell. I am a Georgia Tech guy, so this too hurts too much to discuss further.

Next crazy thing, it came preloaded with (gulp) Vista Home Premium 64 bit. I like the 64 bit. Not too sure about Vista and REALLY not sure about Home stuff and not being able to join domains. OK, so I actually like the Vista OS now. And I REALLY love the 64 bit and 4GB RAM on it. And, hate the home premuim. It doesn't support Virtual Server 2005.

And finally, the thing that really makes me crazy: I am now watching my brand new PC, now loaded with all of my great tools/data already (about 2 days worth of effort), attempt to "upgrade" itself to Vista Ultimate 64 bit. Yep, taking a perfectly working Vista machine and screwing with it. I am TOTALLY nuts. The stuff I do just to have Virtual systems. I really am crazy.

 

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:14:54 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Posted By: Mark Wall
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