the new computer

The new computer is wonderful. It’s not so much Vista (which I have no complaints about), but having 2 gbs of RAM is glorious, as is the new 20″ LCD widescreen monitor. I finished off the the look with a new wireless keyboard and mouse. All my equipment (0ther than my white iPod) is black and silver and I must say, it’s nice. I may be a geek, but I’m still a girl and a matching computer and accessories is nice.

The problem I anticipated from the very beginning turned out to be the one thing that caused some grief: transferring my music in iTunes to to the new computer. I first looked at the instructions from Apple, but they were 11 pages long and reading them over convinced me to not go there. I then evaluated Music Rescue, which looked good in the description, but turned out to not work.

I wound up with a terrific product called iPodCopy, which I highly recommend. It simply copies the contents of the iPod to the new computer, quickly and accurately.  The next time I synched up my iPod, it copied the contents of iTunes back onto the iPod. Quick, easy, and an intuitive interface. A big thumbs up!

I keep hearing people dissing Vista, but so far I’m pretty impressed. It’s working great for me: it’s fast, looks nice, and all of my software except for Scrabble is working fine on Vista.

I am a bit sad about Scrabble … I hope I can find a Vista version of my favorite game soon.