It’s official. I am now using the Ubuntu platform of Linux 100%. I started out last month with a dual boot system on my Lenovo laptop. Two days ago, I gave away my one year old Lenovo laptop to my neice who is now a Fine Arts freshman student in college. For a freshman, she won’t be doing a lot of graphics work yet, so the Lenovo dual boot system running Ubuntu and Windows will do. Sooner or later though, she will have to learn how to get her hands on a faster computer. Well, you never know. I might end up passing my new laptop on to her after a year.
Oh yes, I am now running Ubuntu 100% on my new Toshiba M300 Satellite Pro. That’s what they call this machine. For the life of me, people at the Toshiba retail shop yesterday didn’t know how to sell this particular model. They kept on wanting me to buy the latest model which they kept insisting was better than this model. Better in the sense that the one they wanted me to buy was the Core 32 Duo processor. Better in the sense that this model is just running on Core Duo processor. Ah, but they are missing a point here. This model that I purchased is running on ATI Radeon video card of up to 1GB and that makes the entire thing different in terms of performance. Not only that, but the fact that I installed Ubuntu made the system even more efficient and friendlier.
When I was thinking of getting a new laptop, I was thinking of what particular brand. I was thinking of getting an Apple MacBook. For me, it is one of the best laptops ever invented. Alas, when I started learning how to use Linux, I began to see that there are other alternatives to the Mac. And when I began to become more aware of how to maximize the Linux platform of Ubuntu, it made me realize that there are so many areas about the operating system that I would want to know and become an expert. For some strange reason — Ubuntu makes me want to learn more and not just use the computer for merely typing documents, surfing the internet or watching videos with it.
I hope that Solhenitzin will stay long with me, for at least a year I hope. I also hope that by next year, Toshiba will still come out with a laptop that would have an ATI Radeon or NVidia graphics card. The performance and the visual effects is really different compared to that of the Intel Graphics Accellerator. I’m glad that I am back to Toshiba, which happens to be my first love affair with laptops nearly five years ago. My first laptop was a Toshiba. Then I moved on towards a Dell laptop which is still around the house. Next I went to purchase a Lenovo laptop and along the way I also used an IBM Thinkpad. That was the worst purchase for a laptop in my entire life. The processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo and yet my Dell computer which was an aging Pentium processor was meeting it eye to eye in terms of performance. And when I thought hard about it, I realized that not all computers no matter how good the specs are made the same. There are good quality middle range laptops out there like this one that I purchased that fits for me and my lifestyle. Speaking of lifestyle, I haven’t slept all night just trying to learn, navigate and upload new software into my new laptop. It just feels great!
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