Off to the land of Microsoft Vista I go with a new laptop. HP is the best value around these parts, and buying on Boxing Day at Future Shop allowed a step up for the same price as other times. Ended up with specs like 250GB hard drive, 1.5Ghz speed, 2MB ram and as it’s a “media” computer, (DV9000 series) came with headphones, web cam, and even a remote control for watching DVD’s.
Took 3 hours for the operating system to completely install counting the Windows update, 90 minutes waiting (forgot that it was Dangerous Goods Day on the ferry) at the ferry terminal got the basic OS going and a partion with a mirror for recovery means. Making some DVD recovery discs too now today, strange it’s creating files again as I figured the set already made would be the ones burned.
First impressions of Vista this time around: very pretty GUI but have some continuing problems getting file sharing to work across the network. After the recovery DVD’s are made will be installing Debian anyways, never tried that distro and it’s the one that a lot other ones are based on.