Joys of a wEee Little WinXP PC - Intro

Posted by: tjchan on Aug 02 2008 - 88 views

Asus’ Eee PC is truly one of a kind. After owning mine for about two months now, I am nothing but grins as to its performance and practically in most if not all of my daily PC tasks. From checking email and surfing the Internet to word processing and blogging…heck, even GPS navigation and retro gaming, the Asus’ Eee PC is more than most would expect.

I was recently at a computer store in Sharonville, OH and was told that this little gem was a lump of coal…good for practically nothing but the most basic of basics. After hearing a sales pitch like that, I would have totally avoided the Eee PC like the plague. Sure, this little guy has a Celeron processor and lacks an optical drive…but hey, its tiny, weighs only 2 pounds, and can access an optical drive just like the MacBook Air - via a network.

We’ll be starting out with Part 1 of a multi-part mini series on how you can get the most out of your Eee PC. From loading Windows to getting on all the extra little goodies that makes your Eee PC a road warrior, we’re sure to have a great time along the way!

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Just Another Windows Rant…Or Is It?

Posted by: dgoldring on Jun 26 2008 - 164 views

Does this sound like anyone you know?

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack … so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.

The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.

This site is so slow it is unusable.

How about this?

It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.

This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn’t Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn’t use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

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