tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91156446058333841382024-03-13T21:16:17.380+01:00X de XavierUnos y ceros. A veces, en el orden adecuado.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-7644782350204236922009-09-10T22:02:00.004+01:002009-09-14T14:48:32.027+01:00My tablet PC says hiOne of the joys of not being an Apple fanboy is that you can already be the user of a tablet PC. In case you are not aware of it, tablets are cool, comfortable and in a similar price range than any laptop.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xverges/3905535665/" title="My tablet pc says hi by -Xv, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3905535665_bcd390e9f6.jpg" width="400" alt="My tablet pc says hi" /></a><br /><br /><div>In june I got an <a href="http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01572835&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3804230">hp tx2000</a> at <a href="http://www.mcs-n.com/">http://mcs-n.com</a> and paid €712 for it. I took advantage of <a href="http://www.planavanza.es/Herramientas/PreguntasFrecuentes/pregunta6.htm">Plan Avanza</a>'s interest free credits.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's small and easy to carry around; reading on it with its screen folded, either on the coach or in the bus, is very comfortable. Unfortunatelly, battery life is not that great; I'm hopping to extend it a bit by taking the time to undervolt its cpu.</div><div><br /></div><div>It came preloaded with lots of crapware (dear HP, haven't you considered that maybe all this bloatware makes your hardware look bad and underperformant?). I wiped it and did a clean installation of Vista 64bits (make that two or three clean installations... damn activation!) <b>Update:</b> Before doing a clean install on a tablet pc, <a href="http://www.gnegg.ch/2007/08/careful-when-clean-installing-tabletpcs/">you may want to save some calibration data</a> (something that I failed to do)</div><div><ul><li>I went for 64 bits because I was hoping that the OS would be taking advantage of the 4GB of RAM that are available (<a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html">it won't happen with Vista 32 bits</a>; <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us">it may happen in Vista 64 bits</a>; I don't know if it happens in my laptop)</li><li>I went for Vista Ultimate because I found a good deal for students <a href="http://daelgolpe.es/">http://daelgolpe.es/</a> and I thought that I may end up needing its support for different language packs. Yes, this school year I'm a student.</li><li>I don't recall how I got out of the <a href="http://twitter.com/XavierVerges/status/3222900040">activation nightmare</a>. The great <a href="http://directedge.us/content/abr-activation-backup-and-restore">Activation Backup and Restore</a> and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/1033/ordermedia/default.mspx">Microsoft alternate media</a> allowed me to go from bloated Vista Home 32 to fresh installation to Vista Home 64. I then, don't ask me how, was able to use the Ultimate upgrade license key.</li></ul><br /></div>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0