posted by flyingroc on 06/22/08
I'm posting this from my eeepc. It's a nifty little laptop, but I have a few problems with it. One is the keyboard is slightly too small, and that's saying something given that i have really small hands. I am starting to get used to typing on it, but the up-arrow being beside the shift key is making it a bit difficult.
The other thing is that it's mighty slow. I think partly it's Windows XP, and partly it's just that underpowered. For browsing, I've tried IE 7 and Firefox 3, and both seemed quite unresponsive. On a lark, I downloaded Safari for Windows, and wow, it's much faster for the websites I went to. Plus I like its font rendering *much* better than either FF or IE. In general, browsing is tolerable with Safari.
This is the first personal machine I've had in a while that is primarily running Windows. And I'm getting a bit annoyed at all the software that want to insert itself in the system tray, and run on startup. I mean, enough already, if I want something to run on startup, I can put it in the startup folder!
Next up, installing Visual Studio. Yes, I will attempt to code on this little thing. Because I can. Did you know that there is a free version of Visual Studio? VS has one of those interfaces that only developers writing software for other developers could have invented. It's so flexible, I can move buttons around, and put windows anywhere I like. Which means every day I accidentally move my toolbars and side bars around that I have to search for them all the time. It also means that when I work on someone else's Visual studio, all the buttons and information windows are in the wrong places. Plus different key-combinations (everyone please just use "general")... sigh.
Despite its flaws though, I must admit to being spoiled by intellisense. I can't program without it anymore. Whenever I use some other editor to write programs, I keep pausing to let intellisense complete my thoughts for me, and getting disappointed that it doesn't.
