In league with the —–
Posted on September 6, 2007
At work I am a full-time LSP (Local Support Provider a/k/a computer guy). I was able to justify to the powers-that-be that it would beneficial for me to have a laptop. It came in today. The idea was to kill two birds with one stone.
The main reason for a laptop is that it would be beneficial for me to have ready access to “my own computer” like the one I use in my office. However we have multiple sites in different buildings, so it isn’t really possible for me to drag around a desktop PC. Yet I still need access to stuff I have setup on the PC in my office. The laptop is supposed to replace the desktop PC for pretty much all the computing stuff I do.
The other reason was I needed to get a computer that would run Windows Vista. The PC’s in my office are older. They’re P-4′s and still plugging away on XP. However, the faculty buy their own computers and since I will be expected to support Vista at some point, I figured if I got a laptop with Vista on it, the department would probably save some money in the long run.
The laptop is a Dell Latitude D630 with an Intel Centrino Duo processor and 2 GB of RAM. Since it just came in today, I am still playing with it. I’m blogging this from the laptop, but I’m using Firefox, which was one of my first downloads of the day. I also downloaded antivirus, and Office 2007. Aside from checking my email in Outlook, I haven’t messed with it yet. At the moment I’m downloading some language packs. I thought the best way to get used to using Office was to actually use it. Since I’m taking French this semester, the French multilingual pack seemed like a good idea. Now I can do my homework in Office as well. I may still install OpenOffice though.
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