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Remember I was bitching about hauling the big Vaio around and how hot it gets that almost burns my leg? Ya, I solved THAT problem. Here is my first impression of this netbook.
Since I have been using Vista and now Windows 7 for a long time, going back to XP take a bit of adjusting. Things are not as well polished as the latest OS. Also, this thing has only 1 gig of RAM. It shows even when I’m typing. Sometimes I would be typing ahead before the letters catch up with me. But that was when Live Update was running in the background. Now, it’s much better. The keyboard is a bit smaller than the standard though. It will take some time to get used to it. The biggest problem for me is the page up and down keys are hidden under the the up and down key. That is, you have to use the combination of the function key with the up and down key to use the page up and down. I just realized that I use those pageup and down key a lot when I’m web browsing to quickly go down a page. (Note, I found that the space bar can do the page down thing. So one down. And shift-space is pageup. Duh! The two finger parrell gesture can move up and down just like the iphone too! Yeah!!)
I looked online for the 2 Gig RAM upgrade. It doesn’t seem as straight forward as it should be. But I didn’t spend too much time on it.
As soon as I got home and plugged this thing in, I used Skype to call L. He sounded like he was falling asleep. But he answered and we talked for maybe half an hour. I’m glad to see him albeit it was dark and fuzzy. Finally after over a month and a half, I am starting to miss this old guy. 😉 I’m still busy and there are tons of things to do. But it is very nice to talk to him and see him and just chat about nothing. The webcam worked. But he said it’s a little fuzzier than when I was on the iMac. Understandable. I can even tell on my end. When I move, you see ghost movements.
The screen is only 10″ so email and blog entry screen both look crammed. But compared to iPhone’s small screen and thumb keyboard, it’s much better. I bought the one with 6 cell battery. Supposedly, it will last 6 hours. I’ll see. I am hoping for a longer and cooler unit than Vaio. And I think I won’t be disappointed.
The touch pad has the same zoom up and down finger gesture as the iPhone which I like. And I just uploade the pictures form the SD card on this thing. I like that! I think it has all the things I want from a light netbook. I just have to get used to the slower processor, the smaller screen and the smaller keyboard. Things are just not as snappy as it’s big brothers but that’s kind of what you expect anyway.
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After using it for a couple of hours sitting in bed, browsing, blogging on this little book. I think I like it more and more. It’s light and the battery goes on and on and on. Right now, it still has more than 80% left which equilents to 6+ hours. I hope that’s true but even if it’s 4+, it’s more than enough for tonight before I clunk out.
I should have go tone yeons ago. 🙂