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Apache is in pieces? by BadDoggie (4.00 / 1) #1 Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 07:25:25 AM EST

So when you write about flying somewhere, it's not in the left seat? I have a Z61t which I find most excellent. Wile it could easily run Vista it's got XP. Vista is shit. It's XP with pretty graphics and incredible annoyances. Wait until you try to install software or connect to some coffee shop's wireless network before you defend that steaming pile of code.

If you're looking to break with Windows (and Glub knows the learning curve is no steeper thanVista's since MS intentionally shuffled everything around), Lenovo is pretty damned Linux-friendly. Even the goddamned fingerprint reader works (though a bit quirkily) with "Thinkfinger". If I didn't have to use exactly one piece of software which only runs in Windows and doesn't work well inside WINE, my Z61t would have SuSE/KDE on it right now. Even MS Office runs in Linux.

woof.

OMG WE'RE FUCKED! -- duxup ?

Yep, lots of them by FlightTest (2.00 / 0) #2 Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 02:02:35 AM EST

No, I've been slumming it (flying commercial) around the country. While I've made a few work trips to Yuma, the company generally frowns on light aircraft. We have a gentleman's agreement for short trips, I doubt they'd extend it to longer trips.

I'm not looking at all to break with Windows. This is going to be a quasi-work laptop for me, basically taking my home machine on the road with me and not have to give up my screaming desktop at work (the company will only provide a desktop OR laptop, not both). It will need to run AutoCad and Office, plus FliteStar. I may in the future need to run some of our proprietary analysis tools which are of course windows. I really have no need or desire to break with windows for the desktop.

Honestly? I'm partially fubar in the head. It really irks me way out of proportion to run a 32 bit O.S. on a 64 bit processor, even though I know it's not really a perceptible difference except in addressable memory. Near as I can tell, driver support for XP64 is far worse than Vista, and nobody seems to offer XP64 preloaded anyways. I know Aero can be turned off. I can't judge the hassle factor of Vista. My dad got it on his dell, it doesn't seem to bother him. All of my printers are supported in Vista, my dad had an old Lexmark (which I told him not to buy in the first place) that wasn't.

I'm not near smart enough, nor do I have time in life, to get Wine or some other VM working. I barely have time to keep up with what I need to know to keep my FreeBSD firewall and file server running, and there's been times I've had to change pf's conf file without really understanding why what's been working all along suddenly stopped working.

Arrrggghhh. Now I don't know again. XP and 3gb or Vista and 4? Where's my crystal ball?

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VMWare is incredibly friendly. by BadDoggie (2.00 / 0) #3 Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 03:39:02 AM EST

Unfortunately the app I need which doesn't play well in WINE and is processor-intensive. I'm not a fanboi; it's just that Linux works well now and is no more difficult to get used to than is Vista. BG likes Ubuntu and as soon as I figure out how to get Popcap Games to run cleanly inside it, that what her machine will be.

I understand where you're coming from with 64-bit bit drivers, but depending on what you're doing, a 32-bit OS can be more efficient. If your software is memory- rather than operation-intensive, 64-bit will win every time. Ops are generally faster in 32-bit.

Why not 4GB with XP?

woof.

OMG WE'RE FUCKED! -- duxup ?
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: XP + 4GB by FlightTest (2.00 / 0) #4 Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 10:43:09 AM EST

Because there's no point, from what I've read. The BIOS, etc will occupy the last gig, leaving you with 3 anyways.
Or, have I Been Misled?

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