Abraca-Hocus! Pocus-Cadabra!

Ok, so two posts in the same day..  Oh boy!

I'm still trying to run the battery down on the X60s, and it's hitting back by holding a solid charge.  I'll admit, I'm impressed with the little devil.  Even with the WinXP stuff.

And it's the WinXP stuff that's giving me pause.  You can see the threadbare edges, as you fiddle with the system and traipse about the web.  Even the fresh restore with all the updates doesn't really hide the old paneling under the (re-)paint job.  IE, in particular, is it's normal stodgy self.  (One of my accounts online actually informed me that it didn't like this version of IE, and I'd better upgrade...  The cheek...)

I'm kinda off-put by the amount of hard drive real estate that's taken by XP, the "ThinkVantage" stuff, the restore partition, etc.  I'm left with around 50 gigs out of just under 80...  (Even though I know it's not correct, I keep comparing this to my old Powerbook G4 80 GB HD, where I've jammed tons of crap onto it in addition the OSes [OS X and Classic], and still have scads of storage left...) 

Despite not having much room to play in, I'm strongly reconsidering my feelings about installing a disk partition with Lubuntu.  (I did bobble about, looking at Mint and Xubuntu, but I'm sticking with Lubuntu for now.  Mainly because I'd have to do too much digging and climbing to get to the rest of those old CD-Rs.  And I don't feel like burning another disk, anyway...)  (Yes, laziness is just one more  of the fine services we offer...)

I'm thinking about giving myself about 20 GB of storage, and playing with Linux for a bit.  Granted, I can zap the partition if I have to.  (Not an option I would look forward to, given potential Window's hard drive jitters, but...)

To be honest, given the worn nature of XP, the whole drive will probably be going over to some variant of Linux before long. But I'll try to keep the Windows open for a while.  (Something to hear from a twisted Mac user like me...  And just a bad joke in general...)

Now, I'll just need to work up the gumption to do the install, and I'll be in business...