Last night ended with an introduction to Windows Vista. I can honestly say I’m glad I attending the class and I’m looking forward to finally using Vista (as soon as I replace my home desktop or work supports it on my laptop). Don’t fear it anymore, it’s actually quite nice. When I can get it on a computer, I’ll develop some training classes, but I am already available for one-on-one support issues.
I started this morning attending a class regarding the HP Compaq 2710p Tablet Notebook. Oh my gosh! This thing is simply incredible! I didn’t even notice that the screen was 3″ smaller than my current laptop, but I did notice:
- After using it for an hour and half on the battery, it was reading 78% battery life – with 3 and a half hours remaining! It was running faster than my laptop with a brighter screen than I’m running while writing this. I took notes for an hour and half regarding Vista today on my laptop with the screen so dim I could barely read it and my batter was almost dead. My thanks go out to the Center for Realtor Technology for providing a spot to sit and recharge my laptop.
- The screen is beautiful! It looks great for images, documents, video and anything else you might throw at it.
- It weighs so much less than my current laptop! Granted, it has the optical drive in the separate docking station, but I can’t remember the last time I burned a disk on the road, so having it in a separate piece is fine by me
- Cool features. One feature I saw a while back on a Thinkpad (I think) was a little LED light at the top of the monitor that illuminated the screen/keyboard. This laptop has a pop-up light, very neat. Built in SD card, so it’ll work with both of my cameras. It has a fingerprint scanner for security. The ambient light sensor changes the screen brightness based on the ambient light to save power.
- The touchscreen features amaze me. The last time I tried using handwriting recognition software was many moons ago and it was terrible. Vista and this laptop could recognize even my fast sloppy handwriting. It is SO easy to use, a comfortable way to hold a laptop and should be considered for your next computer purchase.
I also attended another seminar (hosted by HP) about how Vista is good for your business bottom line. Some excellent supporting information there, but nothing too exciting.
Then I walked the expo hall floor. I apologize to any vendors whose feelings I hurt, but it seems very repetitive. It feels like every category (cameras, laptops, single property web sites, lead generation, signs, print advertising, etc) have at least 10 different options. At least. Probably closer to 20. And about a thousand chances to win an iPod shuffle/touch/phone/nano. I guess iPods are the hot giveaway this year.
I am about to attend a seminar (again hosted by HP) about going green to enhance the office and business bottom line. I suspect it will be geared to ways you can use HP equipment to go green, but hopefully there will be some exciting information to help all of us out.
Then it’s back to scour the expo halls again…
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