New toy at twc central:
With a 2.2Ghz dual core and only 4GB of memory, it’s not a barn burner, but capable enough for a lappy to take into the entertainment room and use while keeping my Wonder Woman company as she’s booking it on her classes for her next degree (yeh, another one *heh*) or watching one of her fav shows while doing some light gaming or FB stuff on her lil lappy. (She multi-tasks–a lot. ;-)) This, in preparation for moving my office into the basement–when she’s around, I kinda like to be around her, and a basement office would put a cramp in that… unless I also moved the entertainment room downstairs, and that’s another project I just don’t want to add to my plate right now.
Anywho, even though it comes with Win7 Premium, I’ll likely use the 320GB hard drive to install a few VMs–Ubuntu, a couple of different Windows versions–heck, maybe even Win98 and some old Win9X software–using VirtualBox. As I said, a new toy.
BTW, I am going to do some burn-in testing during its first month of usage to determine whether I might need to take advantage of Newegg’s “first month replacement” policy, but there is one burn-in test program I think I’ll eschew:
“Keep in mind, use this program at your own risk. By using this program, you agree that neither I nor Intel shall be responsible for including, but not limited to: burned up CPU, fried motherboard, spontaneous room temperature increase, hair loss, or mental stress.”
I’ll just say no to the potential hair loss… 😉
Well, I did break down and buy a Microsoft RF/USB mini-mouse to match the one we got for my Wonder Woman. Some things are handy to do with the touch pad, others are just handier to use a mouse for. The lil lap desk is juuuuust large enough to allow a 4″ mousing space (if I hang the ‘puter 1.5″ off the lefthand side *heh*). I will probably mod the lap desk later to add a mousing deck on the right, but for now this works fine.