So my x61t should be arriving in 3 days...

You guys think I'll be able to dual boot comfortably on 120gb with vista and xp? I think I'll only use 40GB for xp since I'm hoping to be able to remove it all-together within a year anyways. Just need it for sigmaplot and all my other fun nerd programs.

And yes, I know they just started selling the x300's on their damn website. Kind of sad it doesn't have an express card slot since I got a 16gb express card flash drive at the last job interview I went to.

2/28/2008 3:47:52 PM

you should be fine, i'm running leopard and vista, dual-boot, on an 80gb and i have about 12g free on the leopard side still, after all my junk

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2/28/2008 4:28:46 PM

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"I got a 16gb express card flash drive at the last job interview I went to."

FUCK YOU...that's a nice gift

120gb should be fine...are you planning on 3 partitions (1 - vista, 2 - my documents/shared files, 3 - xp)? assuming you'd want to just merge the last partition in with your second partition later on, rather than wasting space

my vista takes up about 25gb right now (x64 ultimate with oblivion installed)...xp partition probably doesn't need to be much bigger than 20gb at max (at least, in my experience)

2/28/2008 4:37:05 PM

Charybdisjim: I'd see if you can run your stuff with vista + compat mode (if necessary) before going the full dual boot route. I can't speak for anyone else, but I always hate dual boot setups, they were always just totally a pain in the ass for file and space management

2/28/2008 7:40:29 PM

Well I AM a lazy motherfucker... so if vista ends up working for everything I need it to work with then I won't do dual boot- but I'm suspecting I'll need a full xp pro install for some things.

2/28/2008 7:43:34 PM

Oh no, double post!

Anyone looking for an inexpensive half-way point between palm pilot and ultramobile pc should look at the EeePC. I've been playing with one at the bookstore all day and have been really impressed with how non-shitty the 299.95 2g surf was. Program loads and sluggishness were not an issue like some reviews implied- despite this particular model having no l2 cache. It was able to stream TV from Hulu decently as well as run some remote applications through ssh etc. Some customers were playing around with it and had it running the Gimp off of an eos server and other neat little things like that. Basically, if you have a linux box at home the thing can serve as a pretty reasonable remote terminal to your server.

I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised but the plug and play hardware support was impressive. A couple display printers that I didn't think had linux drivers worked immediately with it, print sharing with apple machines worked flawlessly, logitech peripherals we had availible also worked without any driver issues. Amusingly, not all those things worked with vista at all and some of them had huge driver problems. VGA monitor support was blah at only 1024x768

Sure it's no x61t, but its fairly impressive the value for money you get out of it. They've got one in the counter at the bookstore if you want to take a look at one. They're open 8-5 next week I think but not saturday over break. I think there are one or two local retailers with display models too.

2/29/2008 8:02:10 PM

I really like the Asus. I'm really interested in purchasing one. Just can't decide if I want to go ahead and get the 2gb ram and 16 gb sd card so I can install windows.

3/2/2008 11:06:50 AM

I finally came across the EEEpc at BJ's. They had the Surf 2 GB at the same price as NCSU bookstore (299.99?). I was instantly drawn to it because I want to get a cheap laptop to do some basic office/email when i was out and about, but I didn't want to drop over 500. I am just not sure of when a good time to buy one will be. The price seems a bit high to jump on now when you know the price of SSDs are going to come down over time (Moore's law). I am thinking that this would be a great machine to jump into linux on, but I don't know how much memory you need, and how to even go about reformatting the box to put on better distros. (yes, I'm a complete, total, Linux NOOB---- but with experience, I will/can learn!)

[Edited on March 9, 2008 at 8:31 PM. Reason : sp]

3/9/2008 8:31:13 PM