For my birthday I wanted to get a netbook, so I could use it on site visit for repair computers and networks. It took a long time for me to decide on which I wanted and went over a lot of reviews. Then about 1 day before my birthday, I found this. My mind was made up, but it was to late for my birthday. So I ordered it later with the money I got given. So the other day, it turned up! I also ordered a bag and 2Gb of Curcial RAM. This was from the Curcail website and was VERY good, ordered on Sunday and came on Tuesday! I will use you again!
So here is a nice picture of it.
It comes with 1Gb, which I soon replaced with the 2Gb, this help a bit (Not a lot, but worth the £21). I also had a little play with XP, before uninstalling all the shit that samsung like to install (mcafee! OMG). I then decide (Well, i had before I got the netbook) that ubuntu was going on it in dual boot. So I could still use XP for repair work and alike, but ubuntu for general work. I got Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 (9.10 is currently borken, damn). This is very nice OS, love the interface with the launch panel filling the desktop. Really work on a netbook. Its pretty fast, thought does have problems with hibernation (It doesn’t work…).
The battery on the thing last nearly 7hours, with wifi off and brightness down a little it should reach 7.30. Its light, and keyboard isn’t to bad. The touch-pad is the only thing that lets it down, cos the keyboard is large. The mouse buttons are a little, well, cheap. They need to be stronger. But that is only a small thing and you get used to it.
I was thinking of putting windows 7 on, but holding off for now, as XP will help more in repair computers, as I don’t have a XP machine now, only Windows 7 and Vista. XP is to old, lol.
I have also upgrade my main rig for my birthday. It now has 2x WD 320Gb SATAII 16Mb in RAID0, which boosted my WPI to 5.9 (CPU 7.4 GPU 6.2). I will post on that this weekend hopefully, I am having a little room move around to make a bit more space.
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