My New Toy

Well, it really isn't my new toy, so much as my wife's old toy. She bought this a while back, and never used it much. I always wanted one, as you can see from my last post, and so when she said she was thinking about listing it on Craig's List, I asked if I could use it long enough to figure out if I want it. I haven't finished that trial period, but considering that I was fairly sure I wanted one anyway, it seems pretty obvious to me.

Now I look like a true computer maniac at home, with my desktop, portable, umpc and pda all around me. I think I will try to take a picture of me surrounded by PCs. More computing power than a NASA moon launch. Too bad I don't really do anything with it.

It has a 600MHz processor and a 40GB hard drive. It only came with 1GB of RAM, but then I discovered something funny. I saw a video on how to upgrade the RAM, and when I went looking I found that it uses a standard SoDIMM (portable computer memory). When I checked the RAM on my Dell XPS M1530, I found that it used the same RAM (Samsung of course) only my XPS has two 4GB sticks. So, I popped one out of my Dell and into the Q, and put the Q memory into my Dell. Both still work fine, and now I just have to think if I want to actually purchase some RAM and get my portable back to 4GB.

I think that I am going to try Windows 7 on this Q. I am already running it on my XPS and on a test system at work.

Well, I think that is all for the moment, but watch for me to return here more often in the future.