vaios..
March 20th, 2006i’m kinda running behind schedule when it comes to blog posts, so let me attempt to catch up tonight :p
so the vaios arrived. we went to akira’s house to collect them, and spent a bit of time there playing around. mine came with a broken xp install that wouldn’t boot (thanks, sony) and no recovery cds.
that didn’t really concern me – i got straight to opening it up to upgrade the ram and hdd. ram was simple, but hdd ended in a mess that involved taking apart most of the computer, and almost breaking it in the process. 2 hours later though, i had a working 7200rpm 100gb hitachi hdd.
of course, getting windows installed was another issue. i formatted 4 times over last night, resulting in very little sleep. the drivers sony provided were a bit dodgy, so i had to try a few times using both a clean xp install and the sony recovery dvds we created to get it right.
its all good now, and this machine is simply awesome to use 
. i can’t say too much about it yet since i’ve only been practically using it for a couple of hours so far. the key pitch is slightly wider than pbook and most laptop keyboards, but that should become natural after a while.
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I am so jealous.