I want to make stuff in blender all day throughout the year . Yes its impossible . I ve got college . I ve got lots to study so art is not possible during college. So it ends up like this , only on summers.

I ve made new renderings of my previous Z4. An Ipod shuffle, wholly new made today morning. Well you can expect lots of postings from me the next 2 months.

I ve been configuring my laptop to the way i want it this weekend .I plan to make it good for working with blender and solidworks.

1.I shrunk the 222 GB windows vista drive to 80GB. By the way HP rolls out the laptop with one big vista partition and one recovery drive.

2.moved the recovery partition to one end to get a continuous free space. This took a very long time 1 h 30 min approx.

3.Then i created a 100 GB common drive in ntfs which both vista and ubuntu can read.

Now i m ready to install a 64 bit jaunty jackalope as soon as its released.

I used G-Parted to do all this booting from the Interpid Ibex live CD. Its amazing gparted it can do any type of disk management without any flaws.

finally i got a nice new powerful laptop.

i'll be installing ubuntu 64-bit soon with blender and yafray
HP Pavilion dv5-1203ax

Processor, operating system and memory

Operating system installed
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic 32-bit
Processor type
AMD Turion™ X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-72
• 2.10 GHz, Level 2 cache 1 MB, Up to 4000 MT/s system bus running at AC/DC mode 35 watt
Standard memory
4096 MB
Memory type
DDR2 800 MHz
Memory layout
(1 x 2048 MB + 1 x 2048 MB)
Maximum memory
Supports up to 8GB DDR2 memory (Dual Channel Memory Support)
System features
Internal drives
250 GB
Hard disk drive speed
5400 rpm
Optical drive type
LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±RW with Double Layer Support
Lightscribe
Lightscribe included
Display size
15.4” Diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display
Display resolution
1280 x 800
Graphic subsystem name
ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 Graphics
Video RAM
512MB GDDR2 dedicated memory
External I/O ports
4 USB 2.0 (4th shared with eSATA port), 1 HDMI connector, 1 eSATA Combo, 1 VGA port, 1 RJ-11, 1 RJ45 ethernet connector, 2 headphones-out, 1 mic-in, 1 IEEE 1394, Expansion Port 3, Consumer IR, Integrated Fingerprint reader, AC Adapter
Expansion slots
One ExpressCard/54 slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
Speakers and microphone
Altec Lansing® speakers
Webcam
HP Pavilion Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone
Network interface
Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Modem
High speed 56K modem
Wireless technologies
802.11b/g WLAN
Dimensions / weight / warranty
Product dimensions (W x D x H)
35.7 cm (W) x 25.9 cm (D) x 3.49 cm (min H) / 4.19 cm (max H)
Product weight
2.65 kg
Power supply type
90 W AC Power Adapter
Battery type
6-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery

I ve been learning to make engineering drawings on solidworks in the past semester. I ve also learnt a lot about engineering graphics and the indian standards for drawing (BIS).We studied projections, solids, orthogonal views, sectioning and development of solids etc...

I ve just completed a few tutorials in solid works. Its great , i may say that its even easy to use than blender. Its professional and made for CAD.

I ve some files which i ve created mostly engineering drawings but also some 3D parts. If any of you guys are intrested in lokking at them ask and i'll put them up on deviantart.

In our university we 1st years learn CAD with a software called solidworks. Its a good one but costs too much. I like it but my first love has been blender.I havent been working with blender for some 6 months now! I hope i get a little break to work with it, but the nearest one seems to be summer