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Harvest Moon Rising
Thursday 27th September 2007
Time for a quick update, the pain and swelling from my wrist operation are subsiding now which is good, and i’m sleeping better at night which is also good. Central heating has been broken all week, and last night was particularly cold. The cold doesn’t usually bother me, but this morning my fingers on be bad arm were freezing cold! They’re ok now though.
Last night was the Harvest Moon, so called because its brightness and high position in the sky mean that farmers can stay out well into the night to continue gathering the crops. Early evening, the Harvest moon is typically very orange, due to the Earths atmosphere, and last nights was no exception. Unfortunately I missed the shot I was hoping for (stupid clouds getting in the way) but I was able to get this one a bit later on. Still orange, but not as much as when it was touching the trees.
A few nights ago I was able to get my baby telescope (StarTravel 102) out to view the three quarter moon. My dad helped me out with all the equipment and I was able to take a few pictures through it at prime focus. The pictures never look as good on screen as they do through the eyepiece, I was a little disappointed with them as they just look ‘flat’. If anybody gets the chance to look at the moon through a telescope - do it! It is totally different than looking at pictures, or even binoculars.
Finally, I would like to thank my new laptop (HP TX1250 Entertainment Tablet) for helping me write this post! - My operation makes typing a little difficult and slow, but my new laptop has a swivel screen, making it a tablet with touch sensitive screen and with Vista’s handwriting recognition I can write reasonably fast. 
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This post is filed under Astrophotography, Car Crash, Injury and Recovery, Computers by Lonewolf at 12:17pm
What Others Are Saying
Lonewolf
Posted on Friday 21st March 2008 at 10:40am
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I finally gave in and upgraded the tine 1GB that is supplied with the kit. The laptop takes 200 pin SODIMM DDR2 PC2-5300. I purchased the Crucial 4GB kit (2 - 2GB 200 pin sodimm 256mx64 ddr2 pc2-5300 dual die. Kit of 2 CT25664AC667.16FE. Much better now.
Hopefully this helps someone else as well.
Peter
Posted on Saturday 17th November 2007 at 5:16pm
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hi, i am looking into buying a tx1250 but the 1gb of ram has stoped me so far because it does come with the more demanding windows vista, so i would like to upgrade the ram to 2gb so my question is what type of ddr2 ram does it support? i hope someone can help me…
Lonewolf
Posted on Sunday 28th October 2007 at 5:34pm
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I have found the HP tx1250 a very capable machine, although I hate the Vista operating system! Performance wise it scores a Vista Benchmark (experience) score of 3.0 which is very good for a laptop. It is quite light and portable compared with the other laptops I use (HP ze5440, IBM Thinkpad), but it can get a little warm near the cpu fans. The handwriting recognition is very handy for me and works a treat.
I can only think of a few minor disadvantages, or features that would have been nice:
1) When the screen is folded back in tablet mode and using the stylus, it would be nice to have a scroll wheel (like on a mouse) for scrolling through web pages or documents.
2) When in tablet mode, it is quite easy to accidentally press one of the buttons around the edge of the screen, launching the HP media player.
3) Battery life isn’t the best, but they do provide two. The small battery will only last about an hour and a half, the larger about 2 and a half. Of course this depends on what you are doing. The laptop does have some good power saving features and you can tell it to only use 30% (or whatever) CPU when on battery and automatically go back to 100% when plugged in.
4) There is no CD’s with the package I purchased. You get a recovery partition, but no Vista CD or software CD. I would have liked to reload the OS without the vast quantity of software installed by HP.
Apart from that, its a great laptop. The screen is very clear given that it is touch sensitive (bear in mind that touch sensitive screens are not as clear as normal screens), fast loading and good performance, although 3D games will suffer (3D Mark 2003 score of only 1000)
Hope that helps and good luck on your purchase!
navid
Posted on Sunday 28th October 2007 at 3:03pm
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hi!
my name is navid and I am going to buy a HP tx1250.
I was searching to know about tx1250 and your page was one of the google’s results.
can you help me to know more about this laptop model?
I want to know about the advantages and disadvantages?
I will be thankful if you help me.
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