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The oddest thing happened today… I have had this $2k allotment for a work laptop burning a hole in my pocket for a few weeks, I was waiting for vista to come out. I wondered into micro center after having a frustrating time trying to find a vista laptop that didn’t have sucky shared memory (I did find a couple good candidates)… but well I wondered into micro center and they had the older 17″ mac power books on clearance for 1799. I gave it some thought and decided I could dual boot vista or XP on it easily enough (Intel is such a arms broker, I love it)… so what the hell I bought a Mac. Brushing up on my mac skills will help me support the mixed environment at work and all that… I probable would NOT have spent my own money on one, I still really don’t think you get enough bang for your buck hardware wise, OS X is nice though.
The Toshiba I was considering for about the same amount had twice the hard drive twice the memory, core 2 duo processor, twice the vid card memory and a much faster one… etc. BUT all that being said I must say it has been a very smooth experience so far, just doing work and web stuff. The Mac does just seem to work pretty well, OS X is nice, as sexy or more then vista in some ways and in some other ways not as nice. Certainly a few annoying differences but nothing that is to big a deal IMO.

 What has been burning me up in the back of my mind though is vista runs games like shit. Every single real game (solitaire need not apply, thanks) runs at about half the frame rate on vista on my game system. It might just be the big fat-ass (dare I say mac like memory foot print) or it could be that it doesnt like my on board raid controller or who knows (lots of driver drama). Macs tend to run games pretty badly too, but I hate having to dual boot on my game box to XP just play decently. The whole games on vista thing has made me slightly bitter about spending more time with the OS and I think helped motivate me to dig into something new-ish.

I’m sure I’ll end up with a Vista MCE media center soon enough though to meet some of my other AV needs (almost invertible at this point).

I’m hardly a convert, but I get it a bit and can see how folks can get there. What a odd day it’s been.

Kaily had a great mini Birthday party today at Daycare. Charise and Christa made treats and they took everything over. The kids went into orbit on sugar and had a ton of fun. I got a some pictures and will try to get a few of them up soon (no really). Anyway it was sweet. My mom got kaily a new bed that is all white and princess looking and it has a trundle under it. Kaily seemed to really like it and it fits in her room a lot better then the converted monstrasity I had in there.

Wow I have just been so busy with the new job that I have had almost zero time or focus for anything extra like blogging or going through the holiday (or newer) pictures.

Anyway, Kaily’s birthday is Monday the 5th, we decided we couldn’t get a party to together this weekend so we pushed it out.

If you can read this you are invited to Kaily’s Birthday Party Sunday the 11th at 1PM until 3Pm or so. If the weather looks good I’ll get one of those big bouncy things for the kids to go nuts in. Do give us a call or drop a line to RSVP so we can plan for enough snacks and what not.