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sony vaio cw – available with fresh start

Posted Friday, October 30, 2009 7:29 AM by drey
this is what i’ve been waiting for – an oem that provides windows 7 without all the trialware that if you didn’t order you probably don’t want.  this morning i was checking out the sony vaio cw (which looks like a great notebook) and noticed besides Read More...
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320 gb of goodness...

Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:41 PM by drey
just added a 320 gb hard drive to my original macbook pro. this is the second upgrade i've made to it. the first when windows vista rtm'ed, was to upgrade the memory from 512 mb to 1 gb. the only reason for the upgrade was that the ati card can "borrow" Read More...
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another windows 7 installation and demo prep

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:36 PM by drey
i think i win the geekiest airline passenger award this past week - i brought three laptops with me to redmond for the mct summit. 1 running windows 7 enterprise, 1 running windows home premium and 1 running windows server 2008 and hyper-v. so i get out Read More...
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to netbook or not to netbook - that is the question

Posted Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:52 PM by drey
this evening i was looking at the various options - around $300-350 for netbooks. netbooks are interesting because they can run either windows xp, windows vista or windows 7 beta and they are larger than my current phone to make typing and using them Read More...
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sam - my first personal beta tester

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:42 AM by drey
when sam (my son) was 3 he was running windows xp in beta with a simple web game i had created for him (webpages with shapes, colors, letters and numbers - hyperlinks below the correct answer and a sound file to ask a question ("find the 6, sam"). it Read More...
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virtual installations of windows 7 won't count, but my first one was successful!

Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 5:46 PM by drey
on my way to 700 installations of windows 7, i've decided i won't include virtual installations using virtual pc, virtual server/hyper-v or other virtualization products (it doesn't seem fair to count them). i will however be counting reinstallations Read More...
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57 + 2 = 59 installations of windows 7

Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:17 PM by drey
i've installed windows 7 on dell, lenovo and hp computers and today i just completed the installation on two new dell latitude e4300s. desktops and laptops, tablets and notebooks, haven't installed it on a netbook just yet, but that can't be too far away. Read More...
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