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I would like to try the Magic Mouse. My fiancé is convinced she will be getting a Mac desktop as her next computer, and I'm planning on pushing for the 27" iMac when the time comes.
I just bought the new Macbook. I love it. Especially since I had all my stuff backed up via Time Machine, so getting it set up the way I like was a matter of "We've noticed you have a Time Machine backup on
t drive
. Would you like to restore your User Documents, Applications, and Settings from it?" *click* *wait 2 hours* *new computer the way I like it, including all apps*
The only things that didn't make the transition were a couple of serial numbers (Chronosync made me re-register for some reason), the Parallels XP install (which I deliberately excluded from Time Machine for performance reasons and had no problem setting up again), and, for some reason, my MacTex installation. But all things considered, it was a truly beautiful upgrade/replacement experience.
My HP install of Vista came with an evaluation copy of Office 2007. Which I hated, and I have Office XP anyway. However, when I try and uninstall it, it says "This product installation has been corrupted. Run setup again from the CD, DVD, or other original installation source."
Which I don't have, natch, because it came on the box. But I want the disc space back, and badly. Any recommendations for getting out of this gracefully?
I finished revamping my computer. I installed my upgrade to Windows 7. The actual installing Windows 7 stuff is simple, start it up, step away from the computer for 15 minutes, and it's done. The only thing that needed a driver was my laser printer and Windows opened up the page with the driver links in my web browser. I did update the Nvidia drivers myself, though if I didn't care about 3D performance I could have skipped that.
The pain is the anti-piracy for the upgrade. Since I didn't have XP on my machine (I switched to Windows 7 RC). I had to reinstall XP in order to upgrade to Win 7. Fortunately, XP turned out to be easy to install since the only driver I needed was the NIC driver. Even if I had XP installed, I'd have to reinstall it to my new drive since I wanted to put Windows 7 on the new drive. A PITA for someone like me with both a purchased copy of XP and a purchased upgrade of Windows 7. No snags in the process, just a pain as a legit customer to go through hoops, especially since the actual OS install was so smooth.
Having the system drive be an SSD is awesome. MS Word, Firefox, Excel, all open in about a second. I haven't timed the boot up time, but it is very fast. When the desktop appears, it's usable right away.
ita, I thought you have to have Office 2007 when you run Vista.
Office XP should be fine on either Vista or 7.
No, I don't have Office 2007. At least, not a full installation. I might still have the files for the trial copy.
thanks for the clarification, Gud.
I'm not sure what to do about removing the Office trial. You could delete the "Program Files" directory for office and clear out the start menu items. It's not elegant, but it would clean up the disc space.
Do you have the latest version of Windows Install Cleanup, ita?
One of our clients used this MS page [link] to clean up an office 2007 trial version problem, ita.
