Greetings fellow WinUsers.

Purchased a brand new HP Pavilion laptop.  I absolutely love it -- it's very handsome, and for about $750 it does everything I need.  16" screen, 2.2 GHz dual-core AMD processor, 4 GB of RAM, 250 GB hard drive, 512 MB ATI graphics.

Finally I'm living a wireless lifestyle.  I hooked up a D-Link 802.11n router to my DSL connection, and everything is working really well.  I couldn't believe how easy it was to install, too.

Vista x64 on my laptop is working out great as well.  This is the beginning of my transition to a 64-bit OS.  It doesn't have any problems running my applications.  I also installed the following games of varying age, which run great:

* Unreal Tournament 2004
* Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
* Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (a 9-year-old game!)
* Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
* Sierra Sports Game Room (I was quite surprised this worked)

I even installed Windows 3.1 inside of DOSBox, and it actually works!  I used it to see if an old 16-bit Windows game that I wrote would still run.

Needless to say, my experience so far with 64-bit has been a positive one, which is a relief, because I was worried that there might be problems.  But now I'm really anxious to upgrade to 64-bit on my main desktop rig as well, which I will be doing when I get my Windows 7 upgrade in a few weeks.  (I actually think it's kind of funny that my main machine is running a 32-bit OS and my secondary laptop is running a 64-bit OS with more memory.  Go figure.)

This is also just the start of a series of upgrades I have planned for the near future.  I just ordered a 28" LCD from Newegg, and I was planning on pairing my current 22" monitor with the purchase of a new Mac Mini.  It'll be nice to play around with some current Apple technology and software (right now I have an older 600 MHz PowerPC iMac).

Technology is FUN..........!!!