The future is NOW
It’s a cliche, but for me it actually applies. Gentlemen, the future is now!
I’ve just bought a nice new Toshiba Satellite 201/O2H notebook to replace my dying less-than-two-year-old heap of junk Compaq Presario M2000V. Let this serve as a warning to others; DO NOT PURCHASE COMPAQ LAPTOPS. Screen issues (vertical lines, anyone?), design issues (overheating) and other problems are well known in the HP/Compaq brand.
The new Toshiba came with Vista, which is my first proper experience with the new OS. I sat down being fully prepared to hate it as numerous others already do, but I’m very pleasantly surprised. The new features are fantastic, and a year’s worth of patches/fixes and such has resulted in quite a nice new OS. It’s not without its problems – I had to reinstall the webcam drivers and fix a problem in the registry preventing the system tray icons from appearing – but all in all, I’m very impressed.
Everything just seems to work, and work well. I’m a little worried that my years of computing experience will be of no use in the next few years; with parts replacement as easy as ever and auto-configuring systems, there’s little call for someone who knows how to repair OS components. However, it’s all in the name of progress and I support it wholeheartedly.
Being able to control and dictate to the entire system with the inbuilt speech recognition is very, very cool.
First, thank you for your amazing work with MyUSB.
And second… Vista???!!!!!!
Oh, nobody is perfect. 😉
I prefer the real man’s OS. GNU/Linux.