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I have a new laptop. Firstly, it's just damn big. It's Dell's lightest machine in the US market (an M1330) but my gods it's huge. I can't really open it in a meeting and take notes in the way I could on my old Vaio TX-1.
Second problem: I think I need it on Vista. Our IT policy is XP, so the sysadmin in the US ghosted a standard Dell XP image onto the machine and, well, I think it's completely buggered up the machine. Power Management is screwed, I'm lucky to get 3 hours use out of a 9 cell battery. Stand By and Hibernate don't seem to work properly so unless I physically shut down every single time I close the lid, the battery runs out. When it does try to hibernate it seems to end up corrupting the Outlook OST file on the machine and it has to do a major data check on start up.
I live on the road and this machine isn't a machine for a road warrior. It's a substitute for a desk top.
Oh, and it keeps hanging as well, which a new laptop with 3GB of Ram should not do.
Second problem: I think I need it on Vista. Our IT policy is XP, so the sysadmin in the US ghosted a standard Dell XP image onto the machine and, well, I think it's completely buggered up the machine. Power Management is screwed, I'm lucky to get 3 hours use out of a 9 cell battery. Stand By and Hibernate don't seem to work properly so unless I physically shut down every single time I close the lid, the battery runs out. When it does try to hibernate it seems to end up corrupting the Outlook OST file on the machine and it has to do a major data check on start up.
I live on the road and this machine isn't a machine for a road warrior. It's a substitute for a desk top.
Oh, and it keeps hanging as well, which a new laptop with 3GB of Ram should not do.
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