The shitty part is that it came loaded with Windows 7 Starter. For those not familiar with Starter, it blows ass. It is so stripped down it doesn't even allow you to change your background image! And to update Windows, it is at cheapest $70. Seeing as the netbook only cost $280, that is ridiculous. So I am now officially operating on Linux. It isn't as weird as I thought it was going to be. The only down side is that I can't get Skype to work. Oh well. Anyway, thought some of you computer guys would be interested. Any thoughts on improving Ubuntu, let me know.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Out with the old...
So after years of owning a desktop, I finally got sick of having to deal with that giant mess. Since I am graduating from school in about a month, Allie and I are moving up to VT and I didn't really feel like dealing with moving the desktop. After looking at different options and really thinking about what I use my computer for, I decided I really do nothing more than surf the web. So... I bought a cheapo netbook: Acer Aspire One D250. It is actually really cool and I like it a lot so far. It only has 1GB of RAM but it does have a nice 250GB hard drive. Surprisingly it has almost the exact specs of my desktop.
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Any thoughts on improving what now? Was any of that in English? God I'm retarded.
Rory just went with a ipad for the same reasons you listed.
Oh yea, I know nothing about linux
Jae uses Linux and will probably be able to help you when he is back from Italy.
Yeah I was thinking about an iPad but then I remembered that I hate Apple. And if I was going to spend the money on an iPad, I'd just get a laptop with a little more power. Rory, do you like the iPad?? I am curious to see whether or not they catch on.
Yeah man I like it a lot. It's easy to use and it has a ton of features.
Adam I am glad you held true to your dislike of Apple and hopefully you still hate Google as well.
Furthermore I can't believe you had a desktop all that time.
Not sure which version of Ubuntu you're running, but they just released 'Lucid Lynx', 10.4 LTS. From what I'm reading many longstanding default apps have been replaced with more user friendly ones, and social networking has been integrated.
Yeah I just upgraded and I don't really see much difference. I actually ended up removing the social networking thing from the desktop and now I can't figure out how to get it back. Oh well, I wouldn't use it anyway.
hey adam, welcome to the light side. i'm guessing you are running ubuntu's netbook version which i don't have any experience with (i might pick up a netbook for my upcoming trip though). i know that skype works under ubuntu since last year i put it on my laptop and jenny successfully installed it on the desktop without my help. as far as i know, not many of us are still using windows and have either switched over to mac or linux or both. who's left using windows and what version are you running?
I actually am running the desktop version of Ubuntu. The netbook one is really weird and has all these giant icons. Just because my screen is small doesn't mean my vision has disappeared. I got Skype to work but for some reason the internal mic on my netbook doesn't work. I plugged a little one into the mic jack and it works just fine.
Heading to VT for that Cabot cheddar cheese. I feel ya it is almost worth moving there for a little discount. On the computer front, i say go with a powerful pc tower with hdmi output so you can use a LCD tv as your display. Either that or get an ipad, barely anybody needs all the programs that Jae and Eric may ticker with and unless you are an evil computer genius i doubt you need anything more than a good video card and enough processing power to run itunes, a web browser and a few word processing programs. Basically if you don't live on your computer go Ipad. It is simple and it takes the place of an Amazon Kindle and a laptop.
I'm still using Windows on my main PC! It's Windows 7 Ultimate and I have nothing bad to say about it at all. It's actually pretty great. The arcade is running XP Pro, but it just had to be any copy of windows to be compatible with the emulators.
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