July 26, 2007

My New Toy

Some people wanted to know which brand of laptop I bought. I bought this one and added 256M of RAM.

Vision also has great tech support. 24/7 and almost no wait time. When my DSL quit working on my desktop, Bellsouth (now AT&T) was no help. Two minutes on the phone and 20 minutes doing what tech support suggested and I was up and running.

Posted by denny at July 26, 2007 01:53 PM  
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Looks nice and I am jealous.....give us a report (as to how you like it) in a few days.....

Posted by: Ruth on July 26, 2007 03:11 PM

I 'spose you have MS Vista on it. Let us know your critique on it.

Posted by: Billy on July 26, 2007 05:38 PM

Good to know...I'm in the market myself!

Posted by: Mushy on July 26, 2007 07:36 PM

Denny- You sound like a Neal Boortz commercial! : )

Posted by: Rob Cooper on July 26, 2007 09:29 PM

Billy - Nope! XP. For Vista I would have had to upgrade to at least 1G of RAM and even that might not be enough. Vista is a real memory hog.

Rob - I know. Tech support and the Farstone restore product were selling points and I'm impressed with both. I've been real happy with the desktop I bought from them.

Posted by: Denny on July 26, 2007 10:24 PM

Denny, you're an SRF, so you can afford the RAM. I run XP on an old Pentium III 1Ghz with 1GB of RAM. Trust me - XP is much happier with more RAM.

Posted by: Chet on July 27, 2007 12:44 AM

Always buy more RAM... I'm running 2 GB now with XP Pro SP2... still just a 1.7 GHz Celeron, but will buy a 2.8 GHz P4 when I get rich. I did add a second hard drive 7,2000 250 GB and a DVD DL 16x burner. It is a desktop I build myself, tech support is me.

Posted by: Jim Macklin on July 27, 2007 05:14 PM

Chet and Jim - All I'm using this PC for is web surfing, e-mail, and blogging. As an old sysprog, I always felt like I never had enough main storage or DASD, but in this case I've got more than enough for what this PC is gonna be used for.

Posted by: Denny on July 27, 2007 08:49 PM
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