Comments on: What’s that in your pocket? Or are you just pleased to see me? http://blog.michaelhenley.co.uk/2009/05/27/whats-that-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-just-pleased-to-see-me/ My thoughts and opinions. These are liable to change. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: michael http://blog.michaelhenley.co.uk/2009/05/27/whats-that-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-just-pleased-to-see-me/comment-page-1/#comment-73 michael Fri, 29 May 2009 12:31:50 +0000 http://blog.michaelhenley.co.uk/?p=74#comment-73 I'm finding the new taskbar very usable but it is quite similar to the OS X dock which may explain it. Win 7 is such a massive improvement and I am surprised at the performance when running in a VirtualBox VM with it's image on an external drive. OSX86 - I have been there and it is way more trouble than it's worth I found. Great idea but the experience detracts from the appeal somewhat. I have no problem with running windows but I do own a lot of mac software which does what I like and how I like it. Doubtless there are windows equivalents but I has paid me money and made me choice for the mostpart. We will see anyway. I’m finding the new taskbar very usable but it is quite similar to the OS X dock which may explain it. Win 7 is such a massive improvement and I am surprised at the performance when running in a VirtualBox VM with it’s image on an external drive. OSX86 – I have been there and it is way more trouble than it’s worth I found. Great idea but the experience detracts from the appeal somewhat. I have no problem with running windows but I do own a lot of mac software which does what I like and how I like it. Doubtless there are windows equivalents but I has paid me money and made me choice for the mostpart. We will see anyway.

]]> By: John Peter Harvey http://blog.michaelhenley.co.uk/2009/05/27/whats-that-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-just-pleased-to-see-me/comment-page-1/#comment-72 John Peter Harvey Fri, 29 May 2009 12:11:18 +0000 http://blog.michaelhenley.co.uk/?p=74#comment-72 Noooo! I hate those dumb netbook things with all my heart. Yeah, they're cute and tiny, but having owned one I just can't deal with having all my years of perfect touch typing skill thrown out the window by a keyboard that is frankly, on Asus' machines, crap quality, too small and has the wrong layout. Re: OS - I think OSX86 runs on the Dell Mini 9. Windows 7 meanwhile is shiny and surprisingly fast on a low-spec machine, but the new taskbar still confuses me - I'm sticking with Server 2008. Hope you're well! Noooo! I hate those dumb netbook things with all my heart. Yeah, they’re cute and tiny, but having owned one I just can’t deal with having all my years of perfect touch typing skill thrown out the window by a keyboard that is frankly, on Asus’ machines, crap quality, too small and has the wrong layout.

Re: OS – I think OSX86 runs on the Dell Mini 9. Windows 7 meanwhile is shiny and surprisingly fast on a low-spec machine, but the new taskbar still confuses me – I’m sticking with Server 2008.

Hope you’re well!

]]> By: tomturneruk http://blog.michaelhenley.co.uk/2009/05/27/whats-that-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-just-pleased-to-see-me/comment-page-1/#comment-70 tomturneruk Wed, 27 May 2009 21:27:50 +0000 http://blog.michaelhenley.co.uk/?p=74#comment-70 Great (random) post! Until recently I was very much an anti-appleite and, despite still hating macs and the IPhone with very strand of bone and skin and whatever in my body, I love my IPod Touch - its Usability, its games, its interface, its compatability - all great!! I disagree on the netbook front - I have and love my Samsung NC10, and I wouldn't swap it for the world!! Great (random) post! Until recently I was very much an anti-appleite and, despite still hating macs and the IPhone with very strand of bone and skin and whatever in my body, I love my IPod Touch – its Usability, its games, its interface, its compatability – all great!!

I disagree on the netbook front – I have and love my Samsung NC10, and I wouldn’t swap it for the world!!

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