It is late on a Sunday and I am sitting here with my HP TX2110. It has been such a long time since I was first smitten by the wonder of Apple via my 12 inch iBook after dealing with a horrifying IBM ThinkPad, so it is truly a new experience to be with a Windows machine that actually WORKS! So far I am taking baby steps in getting to know this little laptop as I remain blown away by its capability in comparison with both my previous iBooks and even my current MacBook Pro. I never thought that I would ever come across such a loaded laptop: a 250GB harddrive, 3GB of RAM, a touch screen digitized with WACOM technology, a credit card remote, WiFI AND Bluetooth, a webcam with dual microphone and all with a convertible tablet form factor from a swivel display! Having to run Windows Vista Home Premium has not been too much of a problem at all, but I assume this is because I have only been using this laptop for school.
This brings me to the matter of my taking baby steps with this HP machine. Although this new tech toy has been a LIFESAVER in regards to getting schoolwork done, I am still not convinced that it can totally replace my MacBook Pro for multimedia management. Maintaining a media library and video editing on my Mac is definitely much more reliable and I am not ready to let that go too soon, so the HP will have to be a PC dedicated to only schoolwork. At the same time I do believe that since I do have a sense of caution in giving all of my trust to Windows Vista at this point, keeping my MacBook Pro as my main machine is the best thing to do in the meantime.
One HUGE benefit of my new HP is being able to have access to all of the files from ECPI’s website for studying and homework purposes and I am thoroughly pleased with this!! Having trouble on my Mac in opening a PowerPoint file really left a bad taste in my mouth, so being the owner of this amazing, compact tablet PC is truly a proud moment for me.
TRENT
Sent from my HP TX2110
2 comments:
As a student of ECPI, do you have access to the MSDN academic alliance? You could get a bunch of microsoft software for free if you qualify.
I'm not a huge fan of vista, but I admit I installed it on a dated machine and I haven't tried SP1 yet.
I am trying the latest Ubuntu/Kubuntu in my spare time (linux distributions). Its quite hard to use at first, but kinda fun (and frustrating!) if you're into trying a new OS.
I have never heard of the MSDN Academic Alliance, but I will be sure to ask one of my instructors.
Trying out a new OS like Linux has never been much of an interest to me since I have been so reliant on either Mac or Windows. From what I've heard from a classmate, Linux can be challenging as you have already mentioned and I don't have the appropriate amount of knowledge to look into it.
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