Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Nice laptop for a developer running Windows Workstation 2008 - Peter's Gekko

Nice laptop for a developer running Windows Workstation 2008 - Peter's Gekko:

"The downside of the machine is that Hyper V disables all power management functionality like sleep mode or hibernation. Booting takes a couple of minutes. How long exactly depends how many virtual machines are booted at startup."


Something to consider when considering Hyper V on a laptop. Might be a better idea to run VirtualPC/VirtualBox for your virtual machines if you want suspend-to-ram or suspend-to-disk for your laptop. Haven't looked into this myself though.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...