Monthly Archives: September 2007

Last night, I got my new laptop. Its a Vostro 1500 from Dell, and it looks hawt. It has a Core 2 Duo T7300 @ 2 GHz, 2 X 1GB DDR2-666 SDRAM, a Seagate Momentus 7200 RPM 160GB hard drive. Graphics and sound aren’t the greatest ever, but I didn’t buy it for gaming anyway. I got it to be fast, and it sure is.
The laptop came with Windows Vista Business edition, which is actually pretty nice. Sure, I can’t find my way around it, but thats probally just getting used to it. I do want to install Windows XP and Kubuntu on it as well, though. XP because I actually need it for school (They force us to use MS Visual Studio.) and Kubuntu because thats what I want to actually use.
The problem with Windows XP is that, apparently, my harddrive is so exotic or something, that the installation disk doesn’t have drivers for them. I have a driverset thats supposed to work with XP, but haven’t yet figured out how to make the installer use them. (If anyone is actually reading this, feel free to make suggestions. )
I’ve decided to wait untill Kubuntu 7.10 comes out before installing that, because somehow whenever I attempt an upgrade, it becomes a mess.
Oh, and I want an actual mouse. :/