#12 Change is good?

Thursday already and half of February is gone! I hope you treated your special person on Valentines Day.

The long expected Lenovo laptop with Windows Vista Business version arrived yesterday. I was actually at a customer site when I met the Fed Ex man. He saved a trip to Clearwater Park and handed me the long awaited box. I put the battery in and charged it up. Its very cute at 4 pounds. It has a brilliant screen (though small at 12.1 inches) and is loaded technology speaking. It has the Intel Centrino dual core processor (actually that means it has 2 processors!), 1 GB of memory, a 120GB hard Drive, Finger print security reader, DVD burner, 1.3 Megapixel camera/video built in! All the bells and whistles. Ah but it also has Windows Vista Business.

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As you can see it looks like a normal laptop and the Vista screen isn't too different from Windows XP. On the right side of the screen you see some icons. That is the Sidebar. This is a Microsoft theft of a MAC item they call the Dashboard. It contains user selectable applets (small programs called gadgets) that you can customize. I put a weather item, clock, calendar and system resource gadgets on the new Lenovo.

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First impressions are that Vista is slow on this PC. Even with all that memory and speed it still takes over 2 minutes to load up and an almost equally long time to shut down. I loaded the new Office 2007 on it and they load in about the same time as Windows XP. They just look real different (another blog on another day!).

We'll wade through the ins and outs of this laptop and keep you up to date. If you would like to see the laptop just let us know and we will drop by.

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Keep warm!