Thursday, October 07, 2010

New life for an old laptop

Some years ago I bought myself a lightweight laptop that I thought would be good when commuting or travelling on business. As it turned out, the Phillips machine was actually pretty useless with a short battery life and a bit slow.
Recently, I took up the commuting lifestyle again but I took the plunge and wiped the laptop, installing a 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate OS on it. It's a diferent machine! it's fast, shuts down quickl, boots up quickly, resumes from hibernation reliably and is generally usable after years of me complaining about it.
(The battery life is still useless but I may buy a new battery because this one is obviously tired)

Congratulations to Microsoft for getting Windows 7 right!

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