About four years ago, I decided I had enough of being the family tech support guy and through in my Windows towel for good. Last week, I close the door to Windows in my work life as well… well almost, I still have to connect to Windows Servers, but I am no longer letting a heavy and underpowered Dell Laptop with a track pad that can only be used by contortionists and 4 year olds rule my life. Last week, I bought one of the brand new Apple MacBook Pro with an Intel i5 chip in it. And let me just say, that I’m actually rather upset that I did not do this any sooner. Go ahead Eric, you can call me a Fanboy now, I’ll wait for you to finish your little rant about how I could have bought a Aston Martin or put my kids through college buy now… OK? Can I continue now?
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I have been an Evernote user for quite some time now, mostly for its ability to turn white board drawings into real Evernote for the Android search-able documentation. Even if they’ve had a Linux version available for some time as a plus to the Windows, Mac OS X and the Cloud [...] Joy of Tech Internet Plumber A friend dropped of his Windows XP laptop with a virus on it. Been trying to get him back up an running all week. Looks like a clean re-install is the only solution. Somedays, I feel like such a plumber! Funny that I don’t get paid half [...]  7 Minutes of Passion, 7 Hours of Pain We do a lot of Windows bashing here at 2FatDads.com and in all fairness we usually have been given many good reasons to be so negative about the aging and flailing Microsoft OS. We’ll been using it since the Windows 3 days and most of us are very knowledge at making it do our will. Even though I got rid of all the Windows machines in my house over 2 years ago, I continue to use and Dell Latitude e6400 at work. In fact I am writing this very post after hours on it… but more on that later. For now, I’m going to try to explain the title. UPDATED See end of post. Continue reading 7 Minutes with Windows 7 Since the release announcement in August I’ve been itching to get my hands on the new 64-bit version of my favourite operating system. Until now I’ve running a clunking old 32-bit OS that was getting kind of tired; the allure of 64-bit was really quite tempting. Continue reading The new OS is in the wild – SL 64-bit on the prowl! |
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