Last night I got around to installing Windows Vista Home Premium on my 3 year old Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop. The Vista base score 3.8 came out better than I thought it would.
Of course, I love my Dell Dimension 9200 Vista base score of 5.3 :-)
Over the weekend I loaded Windows Vista Ultimate Edition onto my 3 month old Dell Dimension 9200.
I wasn't timing it, but it was rather quick compared to installing Windows XP and other previous versions. Once I fine-tuned my device drivers and a few other things, I refreshed my Windows Experience Index which came back as 5.3.
I thought this sounded okay, but according to this article I found, I guess I'm right near the very top of the performance index - COOL! :-)
Although there isn't a huge amount of certified Vista applications, I'm running most of my development work via Remote Desktop and the VMWare 6 Beta release for Vista (seems very stable, by the way), so I'm good until Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 come online (I don't wanna gludge it until the proper updates are released).
Update: I installed Vista Home Premium on my Dell Inspiron 9100 and the Vista Base Score was 3.8.
Yes, when Dell accidently ships you an extra one, and you have to send it back :-!
No kidding, I ordered a brand new fully loaded Dell Dimension 9200, with Core 2 Duo, 4Gb RAM and "one" Dell 3007WFP Display, and they sent me two of them by mistake. Even my paperwork, invoice, packing slip and online account says "1", but I got "2".
So humbly, I phoned them and a rather shocked, but controlled, Customer Service lady politely replied that they would send me some shipping labels so I wouldn't have to pay the freight. I could feel the reaction over the phone, but being the professional she was she couldn't just blurt out "holy crap, you're kidding!".
Oh well. Anyway, here's my new guilt-free setup:
I'm using MaxiVista to control my Dell Inspiron on the left, and Synergy to control the iMac on the right, from my center keyboard and mouse.
Bigger is better ;-)
I placed my order on June 2nd, when Peter-Paul first annouced he had a book coming out. I've been a fan of QuirksMode.org for years.
In the early days of my programming career I would read every technical book I got cover-to-cover, but the last couple years I've been buying reference style books like the Cookbook series from O'Reilly (which are very good of course) and just reading the bits that interest me.
After a cursory review of PPK on JavaScript, after it arrived yesterday, I see this is one I most certainly will read right through.
Many web developers may think they're beyond learning more about JavaScript, but I'm looking forward to re-sharpening my skills. Modern web applications these days are screaming out for smarter client-side support, and this book is a must.
Thank you Peter-Paul, all the best!
