thoth's Journal: Two notebooks

My reorganization of my home computers is partway done.

I opted for a Sager Notebook (NP9280) with 64 bit Windows 7, since that meets my gaming needs well enough. My MacBook Pro continues to be my main machine. My old desktop, currently running 64 bit Ubuntu (karmic koala) is chugging along, but I am looking at replacing it with another notebook, possibly a System 76 linux notebook. I've come to value the portability and low-noise of notebooks versus desktop computers, and am willing to pay a bit more for the same functionality to get it in a notebook.

I've installed as little as possibly on the Windows 7 box. Besides games, I have: Dropbox, Eclipse, Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Earth, Handbrake, OpenOffice.org, Picasa, Stellarium, Truecrypt, VirtualBox, VLC. All of those are open source, and cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and I am quite pleased with the great quality of open source projects! Rather than install Adobe's PDF reader, I went with Sumatra, hoping it has fewer bugs and/or security problems. ;)

When I get the new linux notebook I'll install all this same stuff too.