More Than Meets the Eye.

I saw Tranformers 2 last night. The action was impressive. Some of the comedic timing was amazing. The dialogue was sub-par (which was to be expected). My overall impression was postive. There are a couple of classic lines like, "I know these people... I'm 1/36th Arab." I'm stilling trying to figure out the purpose of having Tyrese, other than carry over the cast from the first movie. His lines were short and annoying. He complained throughout the entire movie and his one-liners were awful. I can't tell if it was a badly written script or bad acting. It could be a bit of both.

MVG Tech (the Dell tech on the island) took my laptop today in an attempt to diagnose the problem, but I have not heard from them yet. The computer continues to lag while on external power, have bad boots, and the media pad continues to intermittently stop working. I'm fairly certain I'll be replacing this computer when I go home. It'll either be the Lenovo U330 (or U350, which has a worse GPU but only weighs 3.5lb!) or a tank (ThinkPad T400)

The fiancee is planning on getting a MacBook Pro 13". Although I'm a dyed in the wool PC fan, I am impressed by the new Apple line. The workmanship of the computer and ease of use are very intriguing. Also, I've pretty disappointed in Vista on the Dell. I have Vista Ultimate 32-bit on the desktop at home and it runs flawless. The Home Premium 64-bit on the Studio XPS is absolute crap. Bad boots, freezes in the middle of menial tasks, bad shut downs, problems coming back from sleep mode; the list goes on. Even having the 64-bit edition, which allows me to run the entire 4GB of RAM is still not worth it.

I'm considering pre-ordering Windows 7. But being the geek that I am, I only want to Pro edition and don't want to pay full price for it. If Microsoft's Ultimate Steal program has it on sale, I might pull the trigger. I'm on the wait-and-see approach right now.

Alright, back to the cave I go. Although it seems slower to use a pen and paper, I still feel like I get alot accomplished in a reasonable amount of time and with a pretty good comprehension of the material. I'm going to have alot of paper (scrap and lecture notes) when everything is said and done. Guess I'll have something to contribute during the 5th semester bonfire.