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Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:37 AM

Laptop Multimon with the Matrox DualHead2Go Digital Edition

A few days ago I ordered the Matrox DualHead2Go Digital Edition .  You are probably wondering what I am talking about.  It's a cool device that allows a laptop, or a regular PC for that matter drive two monitors in one of the Windows Vista 
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Friday, April 18, 2008 11:00 AM

Who's your Daddy MacBook Pro? The ThinkPad T61p

I've been hearing for months and months how great the Apple MacBook Pro is at suspending and resuming from sleep, and how Windows Vista sucks. Don't believe it. My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p thumped the MacBook Pro handily in my testing yesterday afternoon.
Posted by Keith Combs | 5 Comments
Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:42 PM

I wonder who this ad is aimed at?

I think this ad is fascinating.  I started to doctor it and chop all of the text from the shadow down.  Then the ad would look like it was produced by the company it is likely targeted at.  Now Lenovo needs to come up with a logo. 
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:43 PM

Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Installation Notes for the HP 6910p

Here are the notes I took during my Windows Vista Ultimate x64 installation on my HP 6910p notebook .  The notes below were written primarily for my team but I like to share. In case you were wondering, the HP 6910p has performed remarkably well
Posted by Keith Combs | 6 Comments
Friday, February 01, 2008 3:22 PM

Installing Windows Server 2008 EE on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p

This morning I installed Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 VL on my Lenovo ThinkPad T61p. The VL stands for volume license and it allows me to activate via our corpnet KMS server or through MAK key activation. The bits I installed are likely the RTM
Posted by Keith Combs | 20 Comments
Sunday, January 27, 2008 1:42 PM

Windows Vista SP1 is coming and I'm digging it now

One of the benefits of working for a software company is watching a product release develop then ship. Of course sometimes dogfooding software has pitfalls so some would debate the "benefit" statement. It's pretty rare for our internal MSIT folks to mandate
Posted by Keith Combs | 3 Comments
Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:37 PM

HP 6910p notebook received - first impressions

Santa keeps bringing me toys and it isn't even Christmas yet.  This time I received the long awaited HP 6910p notebook computer.  I like to do first impression posts pretty quickly on new hardware because first impressions count, and I forget
Posted by Keith Combs | 8 Comments
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:42 PM

Apple cratered my Mac

I decided last night to finally let the Apple update software download and update my Apple MacBook Pro.  I received the Pro a little less than a month ago and immediately upgraded it to "Leopard" which is OS X v10.5.  As with all of
Posted by Keith Combs | 6 Comments
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:39 PM

Running the Zune 80 on Apple OS X v10.5

Don't get mad, get even. I must say I didn't like the " review " Ryan Block gave the new Zune today on the engadget.com website. Maybe it's because I own an Apple iPod Video 80GB. Maybe it's because I own a Playstation portable (PSP). It might be because
Posted by Keith Combs | 19 Comments
Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:29 AM

Installing Windows Vista x64 on a ThinkPad T61p

Here are my notes on how I install Windows Vista Ultimate x64 to a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p.  There are a number of features present in Windows Vista I do not install or use.  Therefore, you will need to make changes to the procedures where applicable
Posted by Keith Combs | 16 Comments
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:07 PM

Huge... Oh really?

I've been watching a lot of internal traffic and discussion about laptop sizes.  I find it interesting that when people receive a 15.4" widescreen laptop, they think the laptop is huge. Oh really? Huge is relative.  Yes, it is going to
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Friday, October 19, 2007 10:05 PM

T-minus 7 days for Apple speculation

It's less than seven days now before Apple pulls the covers off their next round of products.  We do know of course OS X v10.5 goes on sale at 6pm next Friday, but what else might they reveal at that time?  If you were Steve Jobs, what additions
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:46 PM

Shades of dial-up Batman!!!

Wow. What a blast to the past. I've been downloading Kubuntu 7.10 all day. It's been creeping along at 35-50k per second. This reminds me of downloading Windows 95 betas across dial-up. Scratch that. I think even then I had an ISDN line already. I can't
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:04 PM

Running The Orange Box on Windows Vista x64

Kai Axford was beating me up the other day on my lack of current games for my PC.  As I indicated to him and others, I was waiting to grab Valve Software's upcoming release of Half Life Orange Box.  Well, it's now out and I purchased a copy
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Sunday, October 07, 2007 2:09 PM

Apple Bling

I've been waiting for Leopard to release before I order a MacBook Pro. One of the reasons I've been waiting is the hope Apple will get a clue and fix the thermal issues, improve the screen resolution and lower the price. We'll, maybe the wait is over...
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