I just got my HP Mini 10 and I had time last night to open it up and ‘play’ with it. it was really easy to install Windows 7 Beta on it, except that it is no longer a valid copy of Windows. I picked up a copy of Windows 7 [32-Bit] RC from an associate and will be installing that tonight! I will then hopefully be able to get it up and running and start using it instead of my MacBook. 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. That it can and will run on a Netbook. I am curious.
I am also curious to see how “addicted” I am to my MacBook and the OS X Platform. I know that I could probably make a straight forward switch to Ubuntu or a similar Linux distro. My major concern is functionality, will it work with my computer. That is why I didn’t stay on Ubuntu 3 years ago when I ran it for 6 months. Odd little things kept happening and so, I went back to Windows when both of my PC’s died in a week’s time. No, I don’t think it was the OS. I am sure that one overheated and the other got static shocked from the outside. 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.
I digress.
Windows 7 looks pretty nice and it works much more like Linux and OS X than ever before. The UI is very clean and well designed. 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. I really like having the widgets on the desktop where I can find them quickly. 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]. Sigh, nothing is perfect.
iron wil
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