Say that 10 times fast… Ok, so it’s not that hard to say! Geesh! Why you got to be so rough on me all the time??? So if you haven’t guessed, this is a quicky post about my new not new puter… About 3 months ago or so I ordered me a conservitive little netbook (really tiny laptop with long battery life) from wal-mart.com. I spent a little extra for the bigger battery…
So how was the little bugger? Better then I thought it would be. Supprisingly responsive, resonable feature set, and plenty of storage for the minimal price tag. Had I dropped the bigger battery and hard drive the price would of gone down quite a bit as well, but hey, I was greedy… The biggest downer – it ran Windows XP Home edition. Not that XP’s a bad OS, but there never really was any need for home edition, but that’s another story…
So how’s it a new puter? Well, first off, it all started when Microsoft released their beta of Windows 7 (to replace Vista, coming to a puter near you soon). It’s free to run for the next 6 months or so, as long as you’re willing to live with a few bugs. So, let the surgery begin. First I crack it open and add 50% more ram (now running with 1.5 GB, very respectiable for XP), and then formated it and installed Windows 7. Last time I ran a beta of Windows, it was workable, but a little lot slow! So what happens when I boot it up? It runs just as good as XP, has tons of new features, and makes me a happy camper for the next 6 months. As a comparison, just surfing the net is faster then my real computer which has much higher specs! Whenever it releases, I’ll probably put the real thing on there… Biggest headache was the wireless driver, but I found one that worked!
There ya go! A brand new not new computer! So far I’m loven it… Now to redo the rest of my computers…