ugachaka :: Jacob was here

I like Vista thus far overall. It runs smoothly and fairly fast on my desktop, an AMD 64-bit, dual core built with Vista 64-bit in mind, but I have two mine gripes recently that have made me regret the upgrade. Unfortunately, they might be more the fault of third-party drivers.

First, Vista doesn’t recognize my processor correctly. It thinks I have a single core for some reason, and AMD has release no additional driver to correct this issue. Apparently “Vista includes their latest driver.” Apparently not.

Second, my Logitech MX 5000 Bluetooth desktop still works just as specified, but my desktop doesn’t recognize that there is a Bluetooth hub on my computer for me to connect to other devices. A slight annoyance with syncing. Logitech has not had an updated driver since I installed Vista either.

I searched around looking for solutions, but it seems like I will be stuck with these problems until Vista SP1 is released–sometime in January? Pretty please?

 I stumbled across this post by Mark Fletcher about his passion for the IBM keyboard of old.  Although I can’t find the same obsession myself, I am very particular about keyboards that I use.  Right now, I have a Logitech MX 5000 Bluetooth with the laser mouse.  It was nice when I got it, but lately, I have found myself lusting after something like the diNovo Edge with those soft laptop-like keys.  I think something like that might be more nice to my hands–I tend to type very hard and fast.  I’m  a go-getter like that.  My Logitech desktop hasn’t been working the greatest with Vista as of late, but maybe I can learn to love it again.  My passion for laptop-like keyboards is probably just because I was on my laptop for the last 2 weeks waiting for some bad RAM to be replaced on the ol’ desktop.

Unfortunately, I can’t possibly justify in my head buying such a keyboard for that much.

It makes me think though. I have the same obsession with certain kinds of pens.  I like the heavy liquid ink flow types–keep your ballpoints away.  I wonder if it is all part of the same trend.

Vista has been driving me nuts lately…

My Bluetooth hub, coming through my USB hub for my Bluetooth keyboard and mouse from Logitech, has completely stopped being recognized by the hardware, and I have had to turn off Aero and all the graphical animations of Vista to keep it running smoothly since in the process of installing Vista, half my RAM was burned up. Now, I can replace the RAM, but I seriously have considered whether I should make a move back to XP. My system ran fine then.

The only problem with that scenario is that I will probably want to cut back to Vista when SP1 comes out in Q1 2008. I guess I will just tough it out. I can pick up another 1 GB stick of RAM and maybe the graphical enhancements will come back online. Then, my only problem will be my absence of a Bluetooth hub and lack of several other custom drivers for my computer system.

To top things off, my MDA touch screen is starting to become unresponsive. My tech is not being good this month. No twinkie.

Even though I just got my hands on a Bluetooth desktop from Logitech, it seems like they always come out with something newer and better to keep my interest.

The new VX Nano does not disappoint. If I wasn’t selling my laptop at the moment and looking for an upgrade, I would be all over it for a portable mouse. The USB receiver is ridiculously small and had me at hello.