Friday, January 16, 2009

4GB Supported in Windows Vista 32-bit SP1


Another reason for you guys to upgrade to Vista if you haven't so. With Windows Vista Service Pack 1, now you can see the full 4GB RAM in your system even if you are running only 32bits version of the Operating System.

Yes, too good to be true, same as most other people out there, I'm excited and happy to have 4GB shown in my laptop, only for the few minutes.


Oh microsoft, I hate it!

Well, RAM is dirt cheap nowadays that I've just upgraded my laptop from 2GB (2 x 1GB sticks) to 4GB (2 x 2GB sticks), and that cost S$60. The prices started to go up somehow, I was told by the shopkeeper that 4 hours ago it was S$28 per 2GB stick.... :-S 

And ofcourse, I bought the Kingston, very cheap RAM.

regards,
choongseng

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Downloaded and Installed Windows 7


I've finally installed the Windows 7 that I've downloaded. There's at least a new feature that you can see at the very first time you install and run Windows 7. That's the homegroup, wow.. now you can create little communities of Computers! See the screenshot for more explaination.

And ofcourse, if you want to give it a try, you can do so:

Btw, this is my installation log:

VPC: 512MB RAM, 20GB Virtual HDD
Start Installation: 10:39pm
Abort Installation: 10:53pm
Reason: Too slow

VPC: 1GB, 20GB Virtual HDD
Put over night to install
And wake up in the morning, everything is up, but it take ages still to start the very first time.

Cheers!

regards,
choongseng

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Why I use Google instead of Live Search

I wanted to try out Windows 7 which Microsoft had just released to everyone in Beta form.

So the very first thing, I do a search. And very quickly I get to the download page and I need to login with my live ID, so I logged in and no luck, it gave me a turning bubble and nothing else.

So I guess, for sure I need to use Internet Explorer right?

I turn to my IE8 beta and try my luck with the Live Search (give them a chance right), since it is a Microsoft stuff, I expect to get the link in the top few list.

But.. see for yourself:


Search "Download Windows 7" on google, I got the link to microsoft on the 1st page, 7th link.

Search "Windows 7" on google, I got it on the 3rd link in the 1st page.


I'm sorry Live Search, it clearly shows that I never get to the Microsoft Windows 7 page fron the 1st page of the search result from Live Search. And that means, it is rather a waste of time to search on Live Search in view of this kind of result.

regards,
choongseng