The Portable Consultant

Ok, The Portable Consultant spoke a tad too soon when he suggested home users pretend to be a business when ordering online.
It seems customers are demanding not to be inflicted with Microsoft Vista’s teething troubles in great enough numbers to force Dell (perhaps others?) to offer new machines preloaded with XP instead.
The Register has the [...]

The Portable Consultant may need a new notebook soon and is quite dismayed by the growing pile of Microsoft Vista problems. Thankfully there are ways to buy a new computer with Microsoft XP installed…
…pretend you are a business!
If you visit a web site such as Dell.com that has the option of indentifying yourself as a [...]

My PowerToGo Update (Cont’d.)
By this morning The Portable Consultant had received a response to his complaint to Lexar with regards to the failed update crashing his Lexar Lightning PowerToGo apps on a stick (see previous post).
The tech support response was amusing.
It suggested that I backup my data and re-install. In technical circles this is known [...]