Wednesday, September 19, 2007

New Windows Machine

My wife and I recently purchased a new Windows machine running Vista Home Premium. Our goal was to buy a machine to act as a backup location for the contents of our laptops as well as backup and storage for our digital photos and home movies. We also wanted a machine that could record TV programs for us. In short, we wanted a workhorse that would quietly sit in the background and ensure that we never lose anything. I struggled over the purchase because I would rather have a linux box, but given all the variables we were considering we decided Windows was best.

Overall we are happy with the new machine and getting it to work with my wife's laptop running Windows XP has been a breeze. As a few posts to come will show, it was a bit trickier getting files copied over from our old linux desktop and getting my linux laptop able to share with it.

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