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April 23rd, 2012, 04:59 AM
Well, I guess it's time to do a yearly changeover of the computers in the house. This year it's straightforward though. I thought I'd just jot it down here being bored at work :-)
My main laptop is now 3 years old, so it's time to replace. The new one is also a Fujitsu-Siemens one, but I just realized it's got a SMALLER resolution than the old one! That spells trouble. It's a nice i5 laptop w/64bit win 7 enterprise and 8 gigs mem, internal 21MBit cellular network access etc. but for some reason they dropped the panel res. Go figure. What I'm worried is how will it look with external monitor which will have to scan to a non-native resolution now. Sigh, may need to acquire a new monitor for it. All that is required for the move is copy the infos and docs to an external drive for backup, which I have always at the ready for the purpose.
Then I'll upgrade my main desktop machine's C: drive from 64GB SSD to 120GB SSD, and a little faster too with 500+ mb/s for both read and write. The oldest spinners in it are only 2 years old right now so I don't have to get any other new HD's for it yet.(I always try to change drives within 3 years from my main machine to less critical ones for another three in rotation until I sell them or they become obsolete.)
I'm considering updating my livingroom PC's OS to Win7 32bit - 32 only because it's got only 2gb of memory anyway. It's only 8 euros for the upgrade so I'll likely do it...but then again Xp Pro works well for a media machine, there's no real _need_ to upgrade so I might just save the 8 euros too :-)
Finally the mini-laptop upgrade; got a 2-gig memory chip for it instead of just one, and adjusted the bios to assign 128mb to display, so it should be good for w7 32bit now instead of Xp Pro. I'll also change the 160GB internal drive to the 64GB SSD that I'm retiring from my main desktop, having served there for 2 years now.
The new parts should be here tomorrow night so I can go ahead with the upgrades - if I can get my hands on a couple of w7 upgrade versions by then.
Okay, proceed with the usual programme...
My main laptop is now 3 years old, so it's time to replace. The new one is also a Fujitsu-Siemens one, but I just realized it's got a SMALLER resolution than the old one! That spells trouble. It's a nice i5 laptop w/64bit win 7 enterprise and 8 gigs mem, internal 21MBit cellular network access etc. but for some reason they dropped the panel res. Go figure. What I'm worried is how will it look with external monitor which will have to scan to a non-native resolution now. Sigh, may need to acquire a new monitor for it. All that is required for the move is copy the infos and docs to an external drive for backup, which I have always at the ready for the purpose.
Then I'll upgrade my main desktop machine's C: drive from 64GB SSD to 120GB SSD, and a little faster too with 500+ mb/s for both read and write. The oldest spinners in it are only 2 years old right now so I don't have to get any other new HD's for it yet.(I always try to change drives within 3 years from my main machine to less critical ones for another three in rotation until I sell them or they become obsolete.)
I'm considering updating my livingroom PC's OS to Win7 32bit - 32 only because it's got only 2gb of memory anyway. It's only 8 euros for the upgrade so I'll likely do it...but then again Xp Pro works well for a media machine, there's no real _need_ to upgrade so I might just save the 8 euros too :-)
Finally the mini-laptop upgrade; got a 2-gig memory chip for it instead of just one, and adjusted the bios to assign 128mb to display, so it should be good for w7 32bit now instead of Xp Pro. I'll also change the 160GB internal drive to the 64GB SSD that I'm retiring from my main desktop, having served there for 2 years now.
The new parts should be here tomorrow night so I can go ahead with the upgrades - if I can get my hands on a couple of w7 upgrade versions by then.
Okay, proceed with the usual programme...