Amar Galla’s Weblog

As promised I am back. My development laptop has arrived. It is more like beauty and the beast put together. ( A real beauty to look at and work on while performing like a beast ). Many people have asked me more details about the laptop and I will try to review it later on sometime.

I finally decided to buy a Rock Xtreme 770 from Rock Direct. The configuration I went for is as follows :

• Intel Core 2 Duo T7500


• New Nvidia GeForce 8700M GT 512MB (DX10) Graphics Card


• Hi-res 17″ WUXGA+ Display


• 2GB DDR2 667MHz (single module)


• 100GB 7200rpm SATA HDD


• HD DVD


• Windows Vista Home Premium

I chose to go for a single module 2GB ram as I want to add another 2GB stick later on and migrate to Vista 64 as soon as all decent drivers are available. I do like gaming, and so far 8700 has been an absolute beauty. Running almost all games ( BioShock, Quake Wars, Lotro ) on high settings at full native resolution ( 1920 x 1280 ).

I will be setting this up next and I have decided to write a few posts on how I setup my laptop. May be helpful to people who want to get the most from their machine.

I know I have been unable to keep my promise to start writing to this blog again. There are several reasons for that. After so long on not updating my blog, I was thinking that I will hardly have any readers left but all your comments proved me wrong. Logged in after ages to see a lot of encouraging comments which did in fact motivate me to start writing again. One of the factors for not writing much about MOSS 2007 was unavailability of a decent machine at home to run MOSS. I am happy to said that I have finally managed to order the latest ROCK laptop ( Xtreme 770 – T7500 ) and am patiently waiting for delivery. Will be configuring it to start testing SharePoint 2007 code and will post my progress and any lessons I learn along the way.

One thing I was interested in doing was to give something back to the SharePoint community. I want to find out what annoyances people face the most with 2007. If I can figure out something which can help the majority of users, I may sit down and write some tool for it.

Anyways, bye for now. My new laptop will be arriving in 2 weeks time, and hence will be getting busy playing with WSS at home. Still have to figure out a way to get a SPS 2007 development license for my home PC. Will definitely plan to start updating this blog regularly in a couple of weeks from now.