A laptop I woud like to have - ThinkPad X300

I was checking some laptop reviews and I found this great ThinkPad X300, it is not a laptop my father will buy for his daily access to internet, but me (us) as technical consultants, we need a powerful machine which should be nice enough to carry it in our backpacks without killing our backs.

Also, I have a Dell laptop (Latitude D820) which is really heavy and buggy. I have to say it is not this laptop, since I had another Latitude D820 that I replaced after a few days using it because the noise in the Hard Drive and other issues were killing me. In mas last employer I had a Latitude 630 with 3GB of RAM that was way better than this one, faster and lighter. I have used Thinkpad in the past and they performed way better than Dell. My father, my uncles, and few other relatives and friends are using HP laptops that are very nice, but are also heavy and not the kind of laptop needed for my work.

The price for a X300 is around 2,5K US$, so I guess you will still prefer a cheaper laptop, but I will still prefer a Thinkpad over a Dell.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention the Sony VAIO, I have heard they are great laptops and they perform excellent for any kind of work. My Aunt Ana is here for vacations and she is plannig to get one for her, I wil check by myself if they are an option or not; she is looking for a Laptop to access the internet, check her email and some other end user features, but still will be a Sony so let's see.

Are we missing any important instruction here ?

Lotus... is there anything we need to worry about the missing content here ?

Sametime EMS 8

I have been doing some nice deployments with EMS 8 in the last weeks. After some PMRs everything is going great.

I am actually going very deep with this deployment, I am talking about using DB2 commands to move/change data, SSL configurations, clusters, WAS clusters, etc...

Sametime is one of the best tool ever made by IBM, even if you have to add DB2 and WAS (I don't care if they aren't in the Lotus brand)

Xbox HD DVD Player - 50 US$

If you don't have a HD DVD player (no reason to have one now) but you still want it and you have a Xbox 360, you may want to go to BestBuy and get it for 50 US$.

HD DVD for Xbox 360

I bought a HD DVD player about 6 months ago and I am now getting a PS3 in the next couple of weeks for Blue-Ray support. I will keep the HD DVD just to upconvert the DVD movies.

i5/OS V6R1 upgrade roadmap for Lotus Domino and related products

For all the Domino on System i (iSeries, i5/OS, AS400) guys out there... IBM just published the support notes for Domino on i5/OS V6R1.

i5/OS V6R1 upgrade roadmap for Lotus Domino and related products

What you did during the weekend ? I just worked...

This past weekend was a very good working weekend.

I upgraded and moved a few BES Servers to a new data center, new machines, new releases. I also moved and upgraded some Domino servers - same thing - new data center, new machine, new IPs, etc....

Just on Saturday night I could spend some quality time with Mariu warching movies, going out for dinner and that's it. Back to work again !

Oh, by the way, this sunday was the first time since the winter started here in Chicago that I could go out just using a Polo and jeans !

Happy week everyone.