Friday, May 25, 2012
Slate PC Day 1
Wow that was fast. Slate was delivered the next day. Still waiting on a few extra bits and pieces. All unpacked and first impression is that it's actually pretty big, compared with an iPad.
Plugged it in to charge up and it all launched up pretty quick.
First thing - upgrade to Win7 Pro, so over to Anytime Upgrade and $200 later and 10 minutes of installation, and I can join my domain. No problems except that anytime upgrade complains that the update wasn't successful because of the windows update reboot dialog, but no biggie.
http://connect and follow the prompts, and whammo - I'm on the domain.
Next thing is to authorize office. The slate will be used for work/email and writing music. It will kind of be my portable notepad. I'll mainly be using outlook, word, excel, one note and ableton live. Launched office, entered my code, and Office setup did the rest.
I notice this thing has Norton Internet Security. Will have to see if I want to keep that on or not. Probably will for the time being, though I often find that the "security" products normally have a lot of bloat and a firewall that is impossible to control or turn off (in favour of Windows Firewall). Will give it the benefit of the doubt for now.
Have had a bit of a play with it now, and a few things I've noticed. Firstly, use the Security Button Login for a domain, hold the windows key and press power. Secondly 20GB of the valuable 128GB is taken up by the recovery partition. That is going to have to go at some stage. Hard drive space is just too damn valuable on this thing.
Pen input works well, and the Samsung touch interface is pretty cool, except for the insistence on using it's own todo list, rather than my exchange one. Will have to see if I can reconfigure that.
Plugged it in to charge up and it all launched up pretty quick.
First thing - upgrade to Win7 Pro, so over to Anytime Upgrade and $200 later and 10 minutes of installation, and I can join my domain. No problems except that anytime upgrade complains that the update wasn't successful because of the windows update reboot dialog, but no biggie.
http://connect and follow the prompts, and whammo - I'm on the domain.
Next thing is to authorize office. The slate will be used for work/email and writing music. It will kind of be my portable notepad. I'll mainly be using outlook, word, excel, one note and ableton live. Launched office, entered my code, and Office setup did the rest.
I notice this thing has Norton Internet Security. Will have to see if I want to keep that on or not. Probably will for the time being, though I often find that the "security" products normally have a lot of bloat and a firewall that is impossible to control or turn off (in favour of Windows Firewall). Will give it the benefit of the doubt for now.
Have had a bit of a play with it now, and a few things I've noticed. Firstly, use the Security Button Login for a domain, hold the windows key and press power. Secondly 20GB of the valuable 128GB is taken up by the recovery partition. That is going to have to go at some stage. Hard drive space is just too damn valuable on this thing.
Pen input works well, and the Samsung touch interface is pretty cool, except for the insistence on using it's own todo list, rather than my exchange one. Will have to see if I can reconfigure that.
# posted by The Puppeteer : 2:43 pm
