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Right then, I forgot to update you all on my Netbook which I got around to buying (I think I mentioned my intention in a post further down).

I decided to go with the Acer Aspire One Netbook to use for writing notes and surfing inlectures. Its 8.9in and 1kg so its nice and easy to carry around and the keyboard isnt so small that its impossible to type – I’m getting quite used to it now. So anyway here are the specs:

RAM 512MB (Upgradeable to 1.5GB but the process of adding RAM looks a little fiddly and requires total disassembly of the unit.

Hard Drive says 120GB on the box but comes out at 150GB (not quite sure why – perhaps it had a 30GB hidden recovery partition??)

Comes with a watered down version of Linux (which I never actually used) I committed the eternal sin and installed windows on it *shock* this was mainly because of the weird security set-up on the Wireless here being tedious to configure with linux and I wanted to get going as soon as I could.

In getting windows on it I followed this tutorial – http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html based on a EEEPc but the process of getting XP on the thumb-drive to begin with is the important bit.

So thats my Netbook

Craig