I just got my HP Mini 10 and I had time last night to open it up and ‘play’ with it.\u00a0 it was really easy to install Windows 7 Beta on it, except that it is no longer a valid copy of Windows.\u00a0 I picked up a copy of Windows 7 [32-Bit] RC from an associate and will be installing that tonight!\u00a0 I will then hopefully be able to get it up and running and start using it instead of my MacBook.\u00a0 No, I am not making a platform switch; but I am testing it to see if what I have heard about Windows 7 is true.\u00a0 That it can and will run on a Netbook.\u00a0 I am curious.<\/p>\n
I am also curious to see how “addicted” I am to my MacBook and the OS X Platform.\u00a0 I know that I could probably make a straight forward switch to Ubuntu or a similar Linux distro.\u00a0 My major concern is functionality, will it work with my computer.\u00a0 That is why I didn’t stay on Ubuntu 3 years ago when I ran it for 6 months.\u00a0 Odd little things kept happening and so, I went back to Windows when both of my PC’s died in a week’s time.\u00a0 No, I don’t think it was the OS.\u00a0 I am sure that one overheated and the other got static shocked from the outside.\u00a0 I am still puzzled by that, but I had to turn around and spend a bit of cash to rebuild one machine & by that point, I was beyond figuring out what happened.<\/p>\n
I digress.<\/p>\n
Windows 7 looks pretty nice and it works much more like Linux and OS X than ever before.\u00a0 The UI is very clean and well designed.\u00a0 I like the tile effect on the bottom for open windows and I like the loose sidebar tools, it is much better than having the Sidebar and having to work around it.\u00a0 I really like having the widgets on the desktop where I can find them quickly.\u00a0 Dashboard in OS X, is also nice, but sometimes it is frustrating because they seem to take their time loading unless I pop it open and then close it and come back to it later [with the F5 Key].\u00a0 Sigh, nothing is perfect.<\/p>\n
iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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