09-24-2007, 12:54 AM
Lets see:
The arrows changes the screen orientation (portait vs landscape)
The gear brings up various display adjustment controls
The circle arrow brings up Windows Media center
The DVD, obviously, brings up a DVD app of your choice
Power... is power.
... and the copper looking stripey thing on the other side, aside from being cool looking, is the finger print reader.
I'm not hating on macs by buying this thing... but I got it for an absolute steal, it's everything I was looking for (and more), and sends my bling meter through the roof. One particularly cool thing about the reversible touch screen is that one does not need to contort into strange and unnatural body positions to use the machine anywhere other than a desk. It's not perfect, though.
I should have taken Evan's advice and gotten a bigger hard drive than I did. I've got several 120gig IDE drives that make for enough storage, but I still need to find a good way to manage them for backups AND accesability. I have a USB external adapter but I know that they've been known to cause premature drive failure/wear so it's not something I want to rely on. The fingerprint scanner sucks, too. I've yet to get it to work well enough to use as a log on tool. Oh well, no big loss there. HP shipped the machine with a bunch of "buy this" and "look at all the cool services we shipped with your computer that eat processes for breakfast!" stuff... which I'm sorting out. I've been out of computer for a long time and it's taking me some time to adjust to Vista's removal of the "add or remove programs" feature.
All in all, though, for what I paid, I'm very happy. I'll be putting old Dell Latitude D800 on eBay shortly, so if anybody is interested in a machine with a questionable bios I'll have the link up soon.
*edit*
Yes, Vista's new visualizations are cool. If you highlight a a window name in the Windows toolbar at the bottom you get a small image of what that window looks like.. almost a thumbnail. The alt-tab feature producers a similar result. There is a somewhat redundant feature called "desktop switcher" or "application switcher", or something other PR Junky CommercialCool thing that I'd use they'd use Joe Camel to play up if they could, which again, produces another pseudo-similar result.
The arrows changes the screen orientation (portait vs landscape)
The gear brings up various display adjustment controls
The circle arrow brings up Windows Media center
The DVD, obviously, brings up a DVD app of your choice
Power... is power.
... and the copper looking stripey thing on the other side, aside from being cool looking, is the finger print reader.
I'm not hating on macs by buying this thing... but I got it for an absolute steal, it's everything I was looking for (and more), and sends my bling meter through the roof. One particularly cool thing about the reversible touch screen is that one does not need to contort into strange and unnatural body positions to use the machine anywhere other than a desk. It's not perfect, though.
I should have taken Evan's advice and gotten a bigger hard drive than I did. I've got several 120gig IDE drives that make for enough storage, but I still need to find a good way to manage them for backups AND accesability. I have a USB external adapter but I know that they've been known to cause premature drive failure/wear so it's not something I want to rely on. The fingerprint scanner sucks, too. I've yet to get it to work well enough to use as a log on tool. Oh well, no big loss there. HP shipped the machine with a bunch of "buy this" and "look at all the cool services we shipped with your computer that eat processes for breakfast!" stuff... which I'm sorting out. I've been out of computer for a long time and it's taking me some time to adjust to Vista's removal of the "add or remove programs" feature.
All in all, though, for what I paid, I'm very happy. I'll be putting old Dell Latitude D800 on eBay shortly, so if anybody is interested in a machine with a questionable bios I'll have the link up soon.
*edit*
Yes, Vista's new visualizations are cool. If you highlight a a window name in the Windows toolbar at the bottom you get a small image of what that window looks like.. almost a thumbnail. The alt-tab feature producers a similar result. There is a somewhat redundant feature called "desktop switcher" or "application switcher", or something other PR Junky CommercialCool thing that I'd use they'd use Joe Camel to play up if they could, which again, produces another pseudo-similar result.
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger