Cat Rambo ([info]catrambo) wrote,
@ 2007-07-27 11:36:00
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Current mood: quixotic
Entry tags:laptop, nebula awards, plotting, sfwa, vaio, windows

Vote Early, Vote Often
I have a new laptop coming, possibly today!! I did go with a Windows machine, but I am probably going to reformat it and install XP over the current install of Vista. I am hoping this will be a reliable machine; it's a Vaio 17". 

I have been working away on replotting the novel and filling out the llist of scenes in order to see what unwritten scenes there are as well as analyzing where the stakes get raised and how. I think it will be much much stronger for the reshaping.

Just got the new SFWA forum and my current resolution is to take advantage of my SFWA Nebula recommendation privileges and start nominating some stuff. If you're a SFWA member, I urge you to do the same, particularly if you're one of the people decrying the lack of (fill in the blank) getting awards.


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[info]ecmyers
2007-07-27 07:37 pm UTC (link)
[info]feiran swears by Vaio and they look like sturdy little machines. I think you'll find it more than satisfactory. I'm considering a light model (not quite ultraportable, since I need a full-sized keyboard) whenever I need a new machine, which hopefully won't be for a while yet.

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[info]jimvanpelt
2007-07-27 07:46 pm UTC (link)
Why go back to XP? I'm running XP now, and it works fine, but is there something bad about the new system I need to know before I trade this laptop in?

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[info]catrambo
2007-07-27 08:22 pm UTC (link)
Two reasons:

1) Vista is brand new and it's out there being hammered on by hackers and security folks. I don't want to run it until at least one service pack has been released. Right now it's bleeding-edge technology, to my mind.
2) From what I've read so far, Vista is a greedy system and wants all the processor power you can give it. Microsoft designs its new systems with top of the line machines in mind -- these are the kinds of systems that the OS and other software are being designed on, for the most part. XP will work well on this machine and be significantly faster.

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