Well, I’m posting from within the Beta version of Windows 7, the newest operating system from the folks up in Microsoft-land.  After waiting with the millions of others on Friday to get my hands on this thing, I ended up downloading on Sunday night.  To be perfectly honest, other than the delayed download, the worst part of the installation was finding a Virtual Machine software that I could use with Vista Home Premium x64.  My original plan was to use Parallels, since I use it on my XP laptop.  However, Parallels doesn’t work with 64-bit operating systems.  So then I tried Microsoft’s own Virtual PC.  However, Virtual PC does not work on the Home versions of Vista.  I finally ended up using a demo version of VMWare.

A quick word about the hardware:  I am running this instance of W7 in a virtual machine with one core and 2GB of RAM dedicated to the VM.  The physical box is an Intel Core 2 Quad-core 2.33 GHz with 6 GB RAM.

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For two years – ever since the first rumors of the widescreen iPod – I’ve bided my time. I put off buying a Video iPod because somewhere in the not-so-distant future, a hard-drive based widescreen iPod beckoned me to hold off just a little bit longer. Once the iPhone arrived, I knew that my wait was about to come to an end. And with Wednesday’s announcement growing ever closer, surely my dream was about to be fulfilled. After all, it made perfect sense to come out with a multi-touch iPod to finally arrive with enough space to finally hold a collection of movies.

Alas, not much makes sense about the new line of iPods that Apple released this morning. Sure, every feature that I was hoping for was introduced, but in 3 different products! Apparently, the search for a unified theory of iPod was too much for the brilliant minds at Apple.  Continue reading »

PC World magazine has an excelent new article answering just about any question you could possibly have regarding Windows Vista.  This is an excellent resource for anybody wondering just how Vista stacks up to XP and OS X.

Windows Vista FAQ – Yahoo! News