Comments on: Getting a Vaio

By: Boycott Novell » Might Microsoft Money ‘Buy’ Love?

Boycott Novell » Might Microsoft Money ‘Buy’ Love? — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:21:23 +0000

[...] Getting a Vaio [from Microsoft] [...]

By: Boycott Novell » Astroturfing Examples: Learning How Microsoft Tames the Internet

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:15:47 +0000

[...] and stopped that sort of laptop giveaway. But no! 4 months later I found evidence that Microsoft carried on with this malpractice. Microsoft Belgium rang me yesterday (I don?t think they realised it was a public holiday [...]

By: Duey Miller

Duey Miller — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:02:01 +0000

I would put XP 64 if you have an 64 bit processor on it.

By: Lal

Lal — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:29:40 +0000

I did an article here (http://lallylogic.blogspot.com/2006/12/joel-says-scoble-is-wrong.html) regarding bloggers getting “gifts” and some of the hulabulu on the blogsphere regd. independance etc..

Interesting in hearing your ‘thoughts’ as a receipent.

Lal

By: » Fun With Tom Raftery MicroMiel

» Fun With Tom Raftery MicroMiel — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:27:50 +0000

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By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:00:07 +0000

You could try hosing it with a virus and observe the effects, if any. And this could dovetail into a Vista (re)installation experience..

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:26:32 +0000

I’m interested if Nero Burning works on your Vaio or if your CD burning has to happen only with the Microsoft software.

By: Niall

Niall — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:48:48 +0000

Tom,

Careful with OneCare, seemingly it has a nasty habit of deleting user emails!!

Niall.

By: Cormac

Cormac — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:16:58 +0000

You have an endless amount of computers to bench test Vista against Tom.

Ubuntu vs Vista
OS X vs Vista

But what about the Sony Viao Vista vs a normal end user PC Vista? (or has that been done to death already?)

Nice little present all the same. Is it yours to keep?

By: Valehru

Valehru — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:37:10 +0000

Ubuntu was a great suggestion, Feisty Fawn is out soon in April so it would be a good chance to test it. However Tom I would install ubuntu first, then install VM ware and put Vista as a vm partition.

Personally I wouldn’t install Vista as I think it’s an overrated pile of junk but hey who wants to hear my opinions on that?

Aero also really does divert attention away from the functionality but then again so does Beryl. That’s exactly what eye candy is supposed to do, make your technophobic relations gasp and exclaim in revered tones that this operating system is the best thing since sliced bread. Well maybe not Brennan’s bread. mmm…bread. Bread sucks in Beijing…way too sweet….having a craving for soda bread and a rasher sandwhich of some sort…mmmm….rashers…

By: Jonathan Brazil

Jonathan Brazil — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:31:22 +0000

Hi Tom,

I’d suggest you install Parallels and then OSX
BTW one the issue of virus protection and OneCare you might be interested in this

By: John Butler

John Butler — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:02:47 +0000

I think the Aero theme diverts your attention from core functionality at first. Essentially it seems to be no different from XP except XP works better.
I think I see a Raftery Roastingâ„¢ on the horizon Vista watch out!

By: Paul M. Watson

Paul M. Watson — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:59:07 +0000

Windows XP
I got Vista working awhile back and was then stumped as to what software to install next. I had Office 2007 on XP already and couldn’t think of anything specific to Vista I wanted to try. Rather disappointing for a new OS.

Enjoy the Vaio though, I hear they are good laptops.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:35:41 +0000

Damien - the laptop will have Onecare installed already but good thinking, thanks!

Justin, that’s actually a fantastic suggestion. I could install it in a separate partition, or using VMWare or similar. Then I’d really be able to compare across OSs.

By: Justin Mason

Justin Mason — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:28:04 +0000

Ubuntu

By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:16:44 +0000

What should I install first on the Vaio?

At the risk of being all sarcy and mac-fan-boy, can I suggest Anti Virus protection?!