That's nice for you. VIsta though? No way that's going to be happy
installed on my netbook, the Asus 901, with a mere 3.9GB of SSD on
which to install the OS. I've pared back XP Home to about 1.6GB and
have some applications installed on that C: drive as well, the ones
which benefit from a speedier install location as is the primary SSD
on the Asus line. The 8GB secondary SSD is for less memory-intensive
applications. I know, I could solder in a larger, more expensive SSD
as my primary... but for Vista? No, thanks. I've spent too many hours
over the past year trying to keep my wife's Vista notebook to want
Vista on my own computer. I'll be sticking with XP for a long while
yet, until Windows 7 gets into a secondary release phase and proves to
be as usable as some folks say it is now, for millions of users. Where
Windows Mobile is concerned I'm happy to be an early adopter - flashed
WM6.1 in a custom ROM form to my new phone just a couple of weeks ago
without hesitation. But with a PC, I have never had less trouble than
with XP, pro or home flavours, and so that's where I'll be sticking.

As for Bluetooth... oy. I spent the better part of a day wrestling
with several different driver installations on my netbook last week
and could never get a single file to move either way, nor Activesync
to hold onto a connection. The 901 and the HTC Touch both have
Bluetooth 2.0 in the hardware, no dongles required. You'd think it'd
work. But no, not for me. No matter how many forum threads I followed
up, no matter how many tweaks and tricks attempted. So yet again,
after trying Bluetooth a handful of times over the past few years, I
gave up and completely cleaned out every trace of the software side
from the PC, files and registry both. I've no need to waste any more
time. I shortened a USB cable to 6" long and it works just fine to
connect my phone as an external drive, or as a modem, so that's all I
need in terms of connectivity between the two.



Gerard Ivan Samija
http://www.luthier.ca/



"tim spofford" <spof22@...> wrote:
(04/05/2009 09:25)

> [nPOPuk: text part complete but text/html is not; double-click to download]
>
> >something else pops up asking if I wish to connect under
> >Activesync (not installed on my PC as I've simply given
> >up on that garbage),
>
> ActiveSync used to cause me a fair amount of heartburn but for the past 6
> months, with Vista and Bluetooth on my computers, it's a breeze, and problem
> free: no cables and not a single misstep. I sit down at my desk in the
> morning, select ActiveSync and Connect using Bluetooth on the phone (and
> which computer, if they're both in range), and I'm in continuous sync mode
> all day, plus I can drag and drop files (including nPOPuk files, as needed)
> from one to the effortlessly. All of which is to say you might want to
> revisit it at some point.
>
> My work laptop has built-in Bluetooth. My home PC uses a USB thumbnail
> sized, always available, Bluetooth adapter that plugs in the back and I
> completely forget about. It's just there when I need it. It cost me 7
> bucks, I think, either on eBay or from Tiger Direct.