Windows Vista
Well it's December, and our office is still a mess. We're expecting new carpet during the university's Christmas break. We're having to move everything out and not really sure how it's all going to work. I'm hoping we can reorganize our furniture a bit when we put 'humpty' back together again.
I got to spend the day yesterday testing the first final release of the new Microsoft operating system, Vista. I put it on three computers - a T60, a X41, and a T40. It worked beautifully on all three - even the T40 (1.5 ghz processor, 512 MB). I found a few things that would not install - Novell, Maple, Lenovo Multimedia Center for Think Offerings, Lenovo Software Installer, Microsoft Education Pack. But it was nice to see that Lenovo does have Vista as an operating system choice when you're downloading drivers!
The tablet features work fine. All three computers seemed very peppy. It was a bit of a challenge finding some things - but I eventually found everything I needed. I downloaded some extra 'gadgets' that were pretty interesting from the MS site - some nice 'techy' things like a wireless meter, IPCONFIG meter, resources meter... I like the easy way you can burn CDs and DVDs from the bar in the "Computer" option. I'm not sure Aero is that important - I had it on the T60, not on the X41 and T40 - and the X41 seemed to look the best to my old eyes (even with its smaller screen).
Now the big question is ---- do we use this on next year's Clemson student laptops? I'm not overly optimistic right now - but hopeful. It will depend on whether we can get everything to work by February. Even if they are not delivered with it, I expect to have an image available that they can switch to. And I'm sure those who buy 'off the shelf' laptops will get it. So we need to be prepared to support it.
It feels very secure - asks you twice on a lot of things. I read somewhere that it should make a big difference with spyware - perhaps put some tech support people 'out of business'. We could certainly stand less spyware at Clemson! (Then we could concentrate on failed hard drives and other hardware failures.)
Speaking of hardware failures, we're still recovering from Thanksgiving break - and hoping to get those done before the students leave for Christmas break (and we have to move out)!!!
I got to spend the day yesterday testing the first final release of the new Microsoft operating system, Vista. I put it on three computers - a T60, a X41, and a T40. It worked beautifully on all three - even the T40 (1.5 ghz processor, 512 MB). I found a few things that would not install - Novell, Maple, Lenovo Multimedia Center for Think Offerings, Lenovo Software Installer, Microsoft Education Pack. But it was nice to see that Lenovo does have Vista as an operating system choice when you're downloading drivers!
The tablet features work fine. All three computers seemed very peppy. It was a bit of a challenge finding some things - but I eventually found everything I needed. I downloaded some extra 'gadgets' that were pretty interesting from the MS site - some nice 'techy' things like a wireless meter, IPCONFIG meter, resources meter... I like the easy way you can burn CDs and DVDs from the bar in the "Computer" option. I'm not sure Aero is that important - I had it on the T60, not on the X41 and T40 - and the X41 seemed to look the best to my old eyes (even with its smaller screen).
Now the big question is ---- do we use this on next year's Clemson student laptops? I'm not overly optimistic right now - but hopeful. It will depend on whether we can get everything to work by February. Even if they are not delivered with it, I expect to have an image available that they can switch to. And I'm sure those who buy 'off the shelf' laptops will get it. So we need to be prepared to support it.
It feels very secure - asks you twice on a lot of things. I read somewhere that it should make a big difference with spyware - perhaps put some tech support people 'out of business'. We could certainly stand less spyware at Clemson! (Then we could concentrate on failed hard drives and other hardware failures.)
Speaking of hardware failures, we're still recovering from Thanksgiving break - and hoping to get those done before the students leave for Christmas break (and we have to move out)!!!
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