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Old 18-01-2009, 12:57   #41
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That's a real nice thing about the Dell mini, all the upgradable components (RAM, Wifi/BT, SSD) are under one panel on the bottom, 2 screws, phillips head. Need to get round to upgrading the memory on that actually.



No moving parts either, so totally silent <3
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Old 18-01-2009, 16:01   #42
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This little thing is really great, or windows 7, or a combination !



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Old 18-01-2009, 16:11   #43
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Have MS gone all Apple with their task bar, or is that something you've done?
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Old 18-01-2009, 16:12   #44
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its the default settle, when say you have the video as primary thing you are doing and click on the taskbar, and select say firefox and you have 3 tabs open. The 3 tabs shows up like that and you can directly go into anyone of them.
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Old 18-01-2009, 16:45   #45
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Installed it on my NC10 last night since XP felt clunky, old and pretty much useless. Have to say that it runs like a dream. Vista was too 'heavy' so there isn't really much of a middle OS bar OSX. Win7 feels light and quick enough on my 2GB NC10 anyway and I'll most likely stick with it until August 1st.

The only issue is that Aero snap needs turning off. Due to a netbook's small resolution windows keep snapping all over the place the moment you move them lol
Did the same the other day. Seems to run pretty well on the NC10 but still uses a fair amount of RAM. Uses about 530MB at idle and 640MB with Firefox open with 6 tabs and Thunderbird running - whereas XP Home was using about 300MB idle. It doesn't seem to struggle though but I think I'll be upgrading to 2GB when I get back home.

Haven't had a chance to play with it properly yet but will do over the next week or so as I shouldn't be too burdened work-wise.

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Install it from a USB pen drive, quicker and easier

edit: instructions here http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-in...omment-page-1/
I found that how-to as well and it works a treat - well impressed. I forgot to bring blank DVDs with me so it was sort of a necessity

Another way to do it is to mount the iso in XP or Vista (using Daemon Tools or similar) and start the install from there. I did that to start with to triple boot until I'd had a chance to try it out and it worked fine. It worked fine for dual booting but I'm not sure how it would work if you wanted to install it to the same partition as your XP/Vista installation. Maybe someone else knows.

One annoyance was that after I'd installed it, the boot page only showed the two Windows installations so I had to boot up a liveCD to re-instate grub and edit the menu.lst file to include Windows 7 - of course, since I subsequently had to re-install, I had to go through the same rigmarole of using up 2 USB ports with my external DVD drive and loading up the Ubuntu LiveCD. I've since made an Ubuntu liveUSB to save hassle in future - comes in very handy, actually.

Don't do what I did though. After I decided to keep it, I got rid of my XP partition and shrank my Ubuntu partition to give it plenty of room and discovered to my horror that the MBR was on the XP partition I'd just obliterated. Because I didn't have a DVD and I hadn't done the USB thing yet, I had no way of repairing it. I tried doing it through Ubuntu but couldn't get it to work so I ended up installing Vista temporarily, making the USB and then re-installing Windows 7. Bit of a faff but I got there in the end.
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Old 18-01-2009, 18:46   #46
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Have MS gone all Apple with their task bar, or is that something you've done?
No they've kinda gone OS X. By default all open windows are clustered together, so if you've got 2 instances of firefox open you'll only see a single task bar item. No program titles or the like, just the icon is displayed. Hover over it and it'll pop up a list. Also QuickLaunch has gone away and you can pin items to the task bar. I'm not sure I like that last bit, I use Quick Launch a lot.
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Old 18-01-2009, 19:10   #47
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That's what I meant. I noticed all the icons and the effects on the taskbar and immediately thought of OS X.

I routinely turn off Quick Launch because so much stuff now thinks it's a good idea to dump an icon there. I do pin stuff though so maybe this would work for me.
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Old 18-01-2009, 21:39   #48
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Had 1.5 Gig downloaded and Firefox crashed and my download was corrupt, it took 3 hours to ge to 1.5, I hate ADSL is so ****** slow.
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Old 18-01-2009, 22:52   #49
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Use a torrent or a download manager then. Sorted.
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Old 18-01-2009, 23:28   #50
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Use a torrent or a download manager then. Sorted.
Torrent, I am capped to 10kB/s in the day on torrent, even with firefox I was only getting 100kB/s which I find shocking considering I am suppose to be on the max package on BT.

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