Alright so I bought myself a new toy, a little handy netbook. It is a bit nicer to carry a 10-inch machine, instead of a 17 inch laptop around. In the shop they wanted to sell me all kinds of crap, for example Norton 360 anti-virus. When I said I didn’t need it, he asked me 3 times if I was sure about that (like Windows asks you about 3 times for everything). I didn’t tell him that I didn’t plan on keeping Windows on the machine, I didn’t want to confuse him.
It’s an Atom chip clocked at 1.6 GHz, 160 GB drive, 1 GB RAM. It has 3 USB ports, VGA out, SD Expansion, multiple card readers, built-in webcam, audio out, microphone in, and built-in microphone, and a glossy 10.1 inch wide screen display. RAM and hard drive are replaceable. Battery lasts for about 4-7 hours, depending on what you do.
Before XP Starter Edition could even boot, I prepared a bootable USB stick with the full Ubuntu 9.10 live CD, then deleted all partitions and put Ubuntu on. I could have gone for the Netbook Remix, but I wanted the full user interface. Quickly transferred my theme data from my primary machine, installed Global Menu Bar and Cairo-Dock, and boom!
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