Laptop

So I got myself a new laptop.It's due to arrive next week. Despite the warnings that Lenovo is incredibly slow with their order processing I seem to be getting mine only five days after ordering.
I was very interested in the new Dell XPS M1330, but they have a serious backlog and you will probably have to wait 4-6 weeks. There are some features that made the Dell really interesting such as it's new LED screen, weight (about 3.5 lbs), but I always liked Thinkpads the most. I think they are the best business laptops. I am typing this on my T41 which is getting tired after 3 1/2 years of constant use.
So these are the specs of the T61 I ordered:
2 GHZ Intel Core Duo
2 GB RAM
Intel Santa Rosa chipset
1 GB Intel Turbo memory (Robson)
80GB 5400 rpm drive
the best keyboard on the market
all the other good stuff plus the not so good thing: Windows Vista
A couple of notes in regards to the hardware:
I realized that the Intel Turbo Memory will only work with Vista's ready drive option. It's basically a flash card that is supposed to speed up read/write times by caching certain procedure such as OS startup, common program startup, common OS system calls etc...
It only cost an additional $50 so I figured why not.
I want to test it and that's why I chose to go with Windows Vista, even though my first encounters have been anything but pleasant.
I figured it's time to give it a fair chance. Eventually I will be forced to deal with it more and more out in the field.
Worst case scenario I can always wipe the damn thing and put the trusted Windows XP Pro on. It actually would have cost me $30 more to get my laptop shipped with XP than with Vista. If I did choose to revert back to Vista there are two things that are needed:
1) drivers for the SATA drives since XP has no native support for SATA
You can find them by going to the Lenovo support site and putting your machine type in
2) A tool to disable the Intel Turbo Memory so it won't even show up in Windows XP's device manager. You can find it here

Anyway I'm gonna give it a good test run, play around with the Turbo memory, see if I can make Vista bearable,if even enjoyable, and I shall report back my findings here.

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