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Sunday 23 December, 2007 at 11:51 AM

Interesting, but, ahem, I might just point out that Vista has just a feature built in, and when, for example, an external monitor is attached, offers to go into ‘presentation mode’ doing what ‘Caffeine’ does. But nice to see you blogging again Simon.

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Sunday 23 December, 2007 at 12:17 PM

My “coverage” of migrating to Mac is not meant as a Windows bash. In fact, I think XP is an excellent operating system, just old. Although from commentary I’ve read/heard, folks aren’t all that happy with Vista. But despite of Vista, I had decided ages ago to move to Mac. I was just waiting for the right machine/timing. Just reading up on Presentation Mode (and here), it doesn’t seem all that easy to find. The guy that was presenting at the training course, still had the default Windows screen saver. So, there’s no way he was going looking for “Mobility Centre”. So, yeah, maybe he would not have gone looking for something like “Caffeine” either. For future reference, here’s a nice little Vista/Leopard comparison put togehter by Engadget.

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Thursday 27 December, 2007 at 11:41 AM

Didn’t take it as a Windows bash Simon… For the benefit of readers who seem to think anything ‘Windows’ = ‘stone-age computing’, I was just pointing out that that particular feature was built in to Vista And the truth is, there are lots of things that could be labelled ‘useful’ that are buried away in most o/s’s – I guess the devs can’t make every feature available at a single click, and what is useful to you and me wouldn’t be to lots of people. With the right hardware, Vista works very well. My dual-core notebook is a good example, where Vista runs significantly faster than XP did.