As I mentioned in my last entry, I upgraded my PC to Vista 64bit.  Spefically, I’m using Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition.  So far, the PC just runs so much faster.  I’ve installed just about everything I had before, and everything loads so much quicker.  The only crash I had I am pretty sure was related to the wrong memory.  Speaking of which, I got the correct memory installed, and the PC took another jump in performance.

I’m pretty happy with that.  What I find incredible is that the hard drive is rated 5.9 on 64 bit vista.  Anyway, now the PC is factory overclocked like it was supposed to be.  My games all run a lot better, performance is great.  Life is good.  I am looking forward to seeing Windows 7 when it becomes final.

I’ve also decided to try an experiment.  I’ve put Ubuntu 9.04 linux on my laptop, and on my second PC.  It installed very easy on the laptop, had very little issue getting the dell built in wireless to work, and the built in bluetooth worked as well.  The nVidia drivers for the mobile video card installed without any trouble.  On the other dell pc though, that wasn’t as smooth.  I had a lot of trouble with the sound, found out the front headphone and mic jacks will not work at all, so I had to plug my headset into the back of the PC.  Had some issues getting Jockey to install the proprietary nVidia drivers, so I ended up using EnvyNG instead.    I will try to install WoW on both the laptop and pc using Wine and see how it runs.  If I like Ubuntu, I may keep it on both machines.  My big machine though will always run Windows.

In the spirit of embracing “alternative computer lifestyles”, I may even buy a Mac someday.  There, I said it.  I’m Mac-curious.  Since I got a taste of Apple with my iPhone, I’ve been looking at Macs and wondering what it would be like go to the other side and try one.