A few may remember that I tried Vista and Office 2007 out on my old laptop with RC1. I wasn't very thrilled. I was hoping that the issues I found were just because it was beta software. Well, they were.
Vista
As soon as Toshiba released the drivers for my M7 I installed them. Everything is working. Here are a few key items that I have fallen in love with:
- The new tablet features. Everything just seems smoother. In my opinion that is the perfect upgrade. Everything is familiar enough for those who are used to tablets, but it all works better and is more intuitive. The input box is cleaner, my tablet switches from landscape to portrait smoother, the animations used with the pen cursor are better, everything is just better. The office support for ink is nice too, but I'll talk about that in a bit.
- I really like the sidebar. I know it's trivial, and something that has been done by others before, but I really like it. Especially the RSS reader.
- Common synchronized RSS feeds. I love that IE, Sidebar RSS reader, and outlook all use the common feed provider. On top of that, thanks to Jamie, I can now synchronize my feeds with newsgator.
- The UI. The usability of Vista is a large improvement. I knew everything looked a lot better, but I'm surprised at how usable it is as well. There are a few things that aren't perfect yet, but overall it is much improved. The start menu is a good example. If you are like me, there are a million items in your start menu. It takes a long time to find exactly what you want to run. I use the quick launch bar for most common stuff, but what about the items you don't use often but still have to find. Now you can just hit the windows key and start typing. It will search your start menu and give you a filtered list on what it finds. Very nice.
There is some bad. The bad for me is still focused on hibernate, suspend, and shutdown. A lot of times this all works just fine for me, but there has been several issues. Hanging on shutdown, not coming out of a hibernate or suspend. These features have never worked well for me, even with XP. I hope that someday they can get this right.
I'll post something on my impressions of Office 2007 soon.
posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 12:20 PM
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# free welcome back to school ideas
9/10/2007 8:54 PM |
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# re: Impressions of Vista on my Tecra M7 tablet - It's supper sweet
7/18/2008 9:26 AM |
It is the year 2019, 30 years after the first AKIRA project led to the destruction of Tokyo and the start of World War III. The original AKIRA project was a secret experiment to develop a new form of human evolution through the manipulation of the abilities and powers of psychically gifted children. The military hoped to use the children as living weapons, while the scientists had hoped to develop a new genetically superior human being.
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But both the military and anime scientists involved in the project learned too late that the power they were seeking could not be controlled. Akira, one of the children involved in the experiment, developed into a force so great, the he literally destroyed everything about him through a terrifying burst of psychic energy, setting off a nuclear-like explosion which led to the world war.
Now, 30 years later, the military and scientific communities decide to revive the AKIRA project, deluded by narrow-mindedness into thinking they could control a power their predecessors could not.
# re: Impressions of Vista on my Tecra M7 tablet - It's supper sweet
7/18/2008 9:27 AM |
While each character has a level of importance to weaving the story together into its final outcome, the main characters are the doomed teenage delinquent Tetsuo and his one-time mentor, the equally delinquent Kaneda. Tetsuo is part of the biker gang led by Kaneda. The small-framed Tetsuo is taken lightly by Kaneda and the other members of the bike group. Diminutive and weak, he hasn’t proven himself as an equal, in the mind of Kaneda.
In an effort to improve his status in the gang, Tetsuo hentai races ahead of Kaneda and the others while chasing one of the members of their rival biker gang, the clowns. He winds up accidentally crashing into a psychic child escapee, Takashi, from the scientific lab reinvestigating the AKIRA project.
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