Today I received my new Laptop. In the past I’ve used two already and was never very happy about them. The last couple of years I’ve done without them and that was fine.

Now I’ve decided to get one. I had a couple of things that made the selection easy: It just had to be an HP, as that is the company default more or less. I did not want to see myself constantly in the screen (they call it Bright View) and I want an Intel Video Chipset. Just to support them in their great Open Source work.

So it became a HP 6710b. It comes with wifi and bluetooth, has a 15 inch screen which can do 1650×1024, great. I really wanted a 12 inch screen, but they are so expensive….

Anyhow, I decided to buy a default one (instead of placing a build to order one), so it came with Windows Vista. Almost the first thing it did was popup a windows that run32dll crashed and if I wanted to report that. Sure. If that helps you. Anyhow, it was my first real Vista experience and I’m not so happy. Here we are, a brand new laptop, not the cheapest one and still it behaves really