Materialistic Ways

Well, I may be back on the road again soon, so...

I picked up another clodhopper laptop.  I found a castoff Thinkpad T400 on the cheap, and snatched it up, thinking that a Core2Duo with a fast clock speed and (more importantly) a considerably larger hard drive might be a good investment.  This one was apparently a corporate castoff, into which someone had jammed an extra gig of RAM.  It just showed up on my doorstep today.

I've been swearing oaths over & over that I would NOT tolerate Windows on a "new" laptop.  Well, this one came with Win7 Professional, and for some reason I'm a bit hesitant to wipe it and install something better.  (I have a copy of Netrunner I'm dying to try...)

Would you believe that I sat here for nearly 2 hours, running updates on Windows, the Thinkpad software, etc.?  I had all sorts of wonky stuff happen, of course.  (Windows update failed on at least 5 updates...  The "ThinkVantage" software crashed the computer's screen, forcing a reboot...  The virus scanning software simply stopped in the middle of upgrading...  The attempt to upgrade Adobe's compliment ended in failure...)

And I'm still dragging my feet on doing what should be done...

Right now, I'm running MacPup off the USB drive.  (Had a devil of a time with that.  Windows, of course, wanted to format the stick the minute I plugged it in.  Then, when I rebooted, it almost felt like Windows overrode the "ThinkVantage" button, and went straight into Windows boot up.  Rebooted again, and got part of the way into the standard Puppy bootup, only to have the system start acting wonky...  Forced a system shutdown, rebooted, and everything works fine...) 

I don't really feel safe with the Windows side.  I do feel comfortable with MacPup.

And I'm STILL dragging my feet...

I need to liveboot Netrunner...  Though I'm now also debating doing a Bodhi install...  (Had to watch one of IcyOS's reviews, which got me off on the Bodhi mindset...)

This is what happens when materialism gets the better of you.  I oughta know better...

Think I'm gonna sleep on it........