Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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A few weeks ago I replaced my Thinkpad T60 with a Thinkpad X61T. My reasons were:
I got tired of lugging around a 14 inch screen even though the T60 was the best laptop I've owned in many years.
Lenovo X61T
I was looking for something small that had a high resolution screen, and that only left a X61T for consideration (I was only looking at Lenovo laptops). The regular X61 has a 1024 x 768 screen and Homey don't play that!
I have to say, using a Tablet again is fun. There are some features in Vista (flicks) that I helped the team with over 2 years ago (I was an early tester using the flicks stuff on XP). It's nice to see them in the product.
Anyway, I very much like my X61T. There are a couple of things I don't like:
But there is a lot to like. 4GB of RAM, 1.6 ghz Core 2 duo, 1GB of Intel Turbo Memory (flash memory for my hard disk allowing for Vista ReadyDrive).
I really like this laptop, and shortly thereafter I got to play with a MacBook Air that I bought for my Dad to replace his ancient Sony Vaio with cracked screen.
MacBook Air
When the details of the MacBook Air were unveiled at Macworld I was like "Bleh". Not for me. Steve just fixed one set of trade offs and created a new set of problems.
However, unpacking, holding and using a MacBook Air will change anyone's mind.
This product is special, it's so ridiculously light it reminded me of getting my first iPod nano... You just experience disbelief that this thing is a laptop.
However, the MacBook Air is not for me. The first thing I did was install Vista on it and get it all set up. Within an hour I saw a bluescreen. That was the only one for a few days, but lets just say this thing is a bit temperamental about waking from sleep, running on a battery, using the DVD drive and so on.
If the MacBook Air survives (I'm not sure it will, it could end up like the G4 Cube), v2 will certainly be the version worth getting.
I'd also like to see a higher rez screen. The laptop is quite large even though it's very thin.
Lenovo X300
Yummy. This meets every need I have in a laptop except 2
SSD is not worth the sacrifice yet. I hope they offer an old skool drive like Apple and help bring the price point down.
I've very excited about this laptop though...
Oh, it even has special feet.