Well, that was awesome

[ultranos]

So, this is apparently the end of The Quest for a Bloody Working Laptop. Hilariously, I was torn between getting a Dell Latitude E6400 and a ThinkPad T400 for the longest time and had finally decided on the Dell.

Then my friend who's working at IBM for the summer calls me and says "so, I hear you're looking for a laptop." Using his spooky voodoo working-in-the-corporate-world powers, I ended up with a sweet deal on a ThinkPad T400 that's just slightly off of what my original specs were. Meaning, it's loaded with Vista Business and I need to figure out whether or not I hate it or can tolerate it until Windows 7 comes out.

Comments

[bluemeridian]

Nice! I have Vista Business on my laptop and I don't hate it. Granted, I have the User Account Control completely turned off because that was beyond annoying (as well as the sidebar, which sucked up power and load time), but otherwise it's fine. It doesn't play particularly nice with XP and it would be a pain in the ass from an IT admin standpoint, but for my purposes, it's good.

[ultranos]

Yeah, I turned off the User Account Control already. The super-irritating thing is this ThinkPad Client Security Suite or something, which is supposed to link your Windows password to the fingerprint reader. But for some reason, it keeps not believing when I type in the password and asks about once per boot. Which is beyond annoying.

I think a lot of my frustration with it is coming from the fact that I'm very used to how XP works and not at all used to the Vista UI. I could nuke it back to XP if I wanted, but I'm thinking I should at least give it a shot. Also, the new Start menu is rather cool.