{"id":1365,"date":"2009-01-17T08:11:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T12:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/01\/17\/saturday-inspiron-and-vista-ramblings\/"},"modified":"2009-01-17T08:11:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T12:11:29","slug":"saturday-inspiron-and-vista-ramblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/01\/17\/saturday-inspiron-and-vista-ramblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Inspiron and Vista Ramblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No thanks to FedEx, after three delivery attempts the SOBs finally delivered my new Dell Inspiron 1525.  In this day and age of a struggling economy, I cannot believe the piss poor service offered up by FedEx.  But I am starting to digress \u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dell Inspiron 1525<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nMy first Inspiron 1525 impressions is that it is a decent laptop for the price (a shade under $900).  I have spent some time over the last couple of days transferring files, programs, and data from the old Dell Inspiron 6000.<\/p>\n<p>I have everything almost sorted except for email.  I did not realize that the Home and Student edition of Office 2007 does not include Outlook.  I probably use gmail more than Outlook, but my wife is comfortable with Outlook.  I guess for that matter I am as well, but I\u2019m not sure that Outlook 2007 is really worth $90 or so dollars.<\/p>\n<p>When the Inspiron 6000 started going south (IE was crashing the computer, causing Blue Screen of Death, go figure) I got my wife to switch to Opera, which could be dangerous.  I have always used Opera for the naughty searches \u2026 sure my wife (probably) knows, but she never really bothered to use anything else other than IE.  So switching email clients is probably not going to be a problem.  Damn progressive wives make naughty searches difficult.<\/p>\n<p>OK, back to the new Inspiron, it seems fast enough and plenty capable.  I was a little worried if only getting 3GB of memory would be enough to keep Vista happy, but everything seems to be running smoothly.  The 15\u2033 screen is nice, crisp, displays pretty pictures, and everything is running pretty quickly.  At least I have no reasons to complain yet about loading browsers, iTunes, Word, Excel, etc.<\/p>\n<p>My only real complaint is that I do not like the \u201ctouch\u201d pad style buttons for volume control.  The Inspiron 6000 has real buttons on the front edge, but I guess I can learn to adapt.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Vista<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI really did not know what to expect, but my first impressions are that Vista is not too shitty.  If the OS does not crash then I will have no real complaints.  I am sure there will be things that cheese me off, but we are still in our honeymoon period.<\/p>\n<p>I have been happy playing iTunes Party Shuffle with the album covers displaying.  Sounds stupid, but the Inspiron 6000 struggled pushing graphics, so I after three years we were probably missing out on some of the newer, cooler stuff.  I did slog through World of Warcraft and Out of the Park Baseball, but playing sessions were often more of a choppy slideshow than a real gaming experience.<\/p>\n<p>I have become completely addicted to \u201ctagging\u201d images in Windows Photo Gallery.  Good grief!  I am trying to get everything pushed to this computer just so I can sort through what is what.  Bet I fill up the 250GB HDD fairly quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I have never played around with Google Widgets, but I like the little slideshow widget.  Of course it got me in a little hot water when a body painting of Tori Praver displayed.  Oops!<\/p>\n<p>Enough Vista for now.  Back to tagging images.  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