0xfeedface Tech musings and rants

I just bought a new netbook this week. I bought the Asus 1005PEB. It came with Windows 7 Starter, 1GB RAM, 250GB harddrive, and 11 hours of battery life. I'm sitting at Technaglass right now, using their free wifi on my netbook. I love how small this thing is. I can put it in the glove compartment of my car and take it anywhere I want. I set up tethering from my rooted Nexus One to my netbook, so even if there's no free wifi, I have internet where ever I go.

The netbook runs great for what I expect it to do: surf the web, chill on IRC, and write code in a simple text editor. I just installed Netbeans 6.8 on it and have yet to use it. Installing and uninstalling apps and updates does take a bit of patience.

The main reason why I love having a netbook is simply how mobile it is. My laptop is big and clunky. It takes forever to boot up, and even longer to get on the internet. I have a habit of reinstalling the OS quite often. We'll see how long I can last having Win7 Starter installed.