The Goldfish Chronicles

So having played with VMWare to see if my Dell Inspiron 4150 can become my new main laptop, I’ve decided that it can’t match the Powerbook G4 400mhz.

It’s probably more powerful hardware, but it’s lumbered with XP as the main environment. It’s in a cheaper casing [well, it was cheaper after all, a thousand dollars cheaper] which makes it a pain to use.

VMWare is nice, but not nice enough. It isn’t enough to turn XP into a Mac beater, plus there’s the security worry of a Windows box. I’m not prepared to connect it to other people’s networks, and not prepared to waste tons of effort on virus management or software firewalls.

So instead the money will be spent on a new battery for the Mac [current one gets 15 minutes!] and a copy of Keynote which I will try using for lectures.

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