May 31, 2009

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

So last Sunday, Woot twittered a message.

Moments later, I bought a Netbook.

Saturday, I get an e-mail saying that it’s been shipped, and here’s my shipping information. Huzzah, I say! I click on the shipping thing to see when the estimated delivery for the machine is.

It says it was dropped outside my door not 10 minutes ago. I run downstairs, and sure enough, there it is.

Now, I had done a bad thing after I ordered the Eee PC. I had gone and read messages from the last time Woot sold these things, and as such, I read the horror stories. This was a bad plan. Most people weren’t going to have horror stories! But still, I had got myself all worked up about it. Good for me.
There was nothing to worry about, though. My white EEE PC 900 booted up fine, and is running just great. I mean, sure, it could use more RAM, perhaps some more storage… but I may or may not have already ordered all those upgrades because I am like that. So that’ll fix itself sometime next week. The Xandros Linux that comes on the machine is servicable, but not optimal as well, since it does stuff like not automatically connect to Wifi networks. (It’s a netbook, for fuck’s sake. It’s pretty useless without an internet connection!) But again, once I get those upgrades in, I plan in sticking Eeebuntu Netbook Remix on there, so that should help. Hopefully!

One thing I was worried about, though, was internet video issues. I had vaguely remembered reports of earlier netbooks not being able to process youtube videos without skipping, due to weaker processors, so Youtube was the first place I went, followed by Yugioh Abridged. Both worked just fine, thank goodness.

But yeah, I’m now the owner of a Lappy of sorts. We’ll see if it all goes to waste, or if I get a lot of use out of it. If nothing else, I’m sure it’ll get use with me, say, playing browser games in bed. But who knows.

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