Good things come in small packages

[grammarwoman]

Holy frelling crap. I thought the tracking information saying it arrived in town this morning must have been a mistake (I just ordered the thing on Tuesday!), but sure enough, my Eee showed up today. I was worried that UPS would try to deliver during the day and leave me a "Come get it yourself" note. When I found neither note nor package on my porch, I resigned myself to waiting until tomorrow for it. But no! The doorbell rang during dinner prep, and there it was! (The Emperor loudly announced his name to the delivery guy, and asked for his in return. Thanks for humoring my son, Bruce!)

I quickly decanted it from the box and marveled at its teeny stature. Like, smaller than a hardcover teeny. The husband pointed out that I needed to wait for it to come to room temperature before inserting the battery and hooking it all up. I pouted a bit, but he did have a point.

So after the waiting (and incidentally dinner and bedtime), I finally got to play. The Windows XP walkthrough took a bit, and I had to ponder a while before I thought up a name.

Everyone, say hello to Minutiae!

One minor quibble so far: the Amazon description claimed that it had Firefox already loaded. Nope. But that was easily amended. I'm also worried that I'm going to wear out the action on the click bar - it seems a little stiff. Other than that, I think I'll get along fine with the keyboard.

So, resolute and any other Eee users out there - got any tips/advice/software suggestions?

Comments

[resolute.livejournal.com]

I:

Stripped off every program I could that I wouldn't use, ripped Windows to it's basic core, buried IE deep so it's almost impossible to find, loaded Chrome as the browser and set ALL downloads to "ask me where to save this."

Got a high speed 16GB SD card, which I leave in all the time.

Loaded ESET anti-virus.

I clean and defrag and strip temp files and cookies once a week.

I got a wireless mouse which I use in lieu of the trackpad.

I got a mobile broadband card and account.

[grammarwoman]

What's ESET?

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

No particular tips at this point, but welcome to the ranks! Coreen is still making me all kinds of happy...

[kayoteelsewhere.livejournal.com]

How does it run with XP on it?

All the ones I've worked with have assorted Linux.

I'm always hesitant about putting Windows on any limited-resource machine--it reacts more poorly than any other OS to a slow machine.

[kayoteelsewhere.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they Amazon description was confusing the two installs. I believe the Xandros install does have Firefox pre-loaded.

[grammarwoman]

It's much faster than the other laptop we have, which dates from around 1999, so I can't really give a good estimate as to speed.

I haven't run into any problems yet, but I am certainly glad that it came with XP instead of Vista.

asus click bar

[(Anonymous)]

super-congrats on the swwwwweeeeeetttttt new machine. sometimes, buying a new computer, almost makes you want to send out pictures of the new purchase. (forget the kid, LOOK at my new computer!)
my asus' clickbar is stiff and bitchy too. ditch the clickbar and use the touchpad. once you get use to it, you'll never go back.

~kazudi

Re: asus click bar

[grammarwoman]

Thanks!

I'm amazed at all the touchpad shortcuts I've been able to find so far - my favorite is the two-finger tap on a link to bring it up in a new FF tab. Is there a finger combo for bringing up the right-click menu?