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It’s been a while (about 2 and a half weeks) since my last post and I would like to thank all my viewers for the overwhelming comments I’ve received ….. Thank You Guys…

Anyway, I have been away for quite a while and didn’t had time to do posting at this blog but now I’m back and hopefully to share new information to kick in everybody’s laptop experience.

Recently I’ve been trying some new stuffs lately at one of it is to change the look of my Windows laptop to match that of Windows 7, the new and upcoming operating system by Microsoft.

Take a look below.

As you can see the taskbar, as compared to the previous version, is a bit wider.

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Can you do that? Do you want to try?

Well this is possible …… it is not as easy as it seems like installing a new WIndows operating system on a new laptop ( not so direct though). But if you are up for the challenge then note down these steps below.

First let’s get the stuffs prepared for this operation (it ain’t going to be a medical room ).

1. A Dell mini-note notebook with at least 16 GB of SSD of hard disk space
2. A retail copy of Mac OSX - don’t use the oem version that comes with the MacBook
3. An  external USB drive
4. The “Type11 BootLoader” at this link here
5. A blank CD to burn your bootloader

After all of the requirements are satisfied, let’s begin the installation process …..

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Well most of you will think that I will be saying hello Windows 7, hmm …. not really…

The past 2 days has been quite horrifying for me. I decided to finally bow out of Windows Vista and welcome back Windows XP on my Lenovo Y300 laptop.

Well it’s an unthinkable thought but I finally gave up on Vista due to the following reasons.

Here’s  my take on Vista.

1. The constant prompts like allowing file operation to proceed and so on is damn annoying and performance is by far slagging even thought I’ve upgraded my RAM to 3GB.
2. It took me 5 minutes to transfer 1 GB of data from my Local D drive to my external 1TB Western Digital Hard drive in XP but in Vista it tooks me over 45 minutes!
3. There are a couple of sites that hangs upon browsing…. which finally lead me to this downgrading process.

Before you perform any downgrading there are a couple of things you MUST take note.

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This is the confusing part whenever a newbie approaches me for advice on getting a new notebook.

Though most of you understand the difference between a Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office, there are still a minority which still finds this rather misleading.

How come?

I was approached recently by a friend of mine who wanted to buy a new Dell Inspirion notebook computer. As per normal, he asked me for my opinions on the notebook and other technical stuffs like battery life, etc.

But what surprised me is that, he keep mentioning MS Excel, Words and Powerpoint when I looked at the bundled offer there isn’t any. Microsoft Works was not even in the bundled!

After a while I understand that he was confused about the Windows and Office products.

Seems both are products by Microsoft, there are a few users whom may think it is always a bundled.

Microsoft has separated Windows (Operating System) and Office (document, spreadsheet and presentation) and this ain’t something new.

I believed Dell might have include a 30 day trial in the package, though it is not written in the newspaper article showed to me by my friend.

Anyway for new users out there whom might still be getting a new notebook for the coming new year always remember that Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office are two different products completely.

Your notebook computer manufacturer will always (most of the time) bundled you with the operating system but not necessarily the Office applications software.

But if you want a free and open source version of Office, you can always download OpenOffice.org .

Ever get that feeling when you have so much data and suddenly one day your desktop pc or notebook computer fails to respond.

It sucks …… down on upside (reminds me of the last Soundgarden album).

Well now, we have the luxury of Knoppix Live, a linux distribution which can be a saviour to your problem.

Next question one will ask, ” I don’t have any experience in Linux, how to do?”

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