When I bought this netbook, after looking into it – I did wonder if I had actually bought the wrong one, meaning one with 1 GIG ram for example. After much digging around, I learned the max ram is only 1.5gig it seems – so the 1 GIG Model would have 512MB Stick as well as onboard and as I already had such an Item, I saved myself some money.
I Did follow a gide of sorts to get Ubuntu on there and for most part it worked well enough but there ws a few niggles such as not all web sites seeing the camera or telling me it was in use as well as the internal Mic been disabled. If the machine went to sleep (Closing the lid) it disabled the sound. I choose to move across to Windows on this thing. My task was to somehow run Ultimate Boot CD so I could make a ghost image of Ubuntu and swap back later if required. I eventually gave up on trying to make a bootable USB stick and instead ripped apart a IDE Harddrive to stick a CD ROM on there and allow me to boot and get the image done as well as Install Windows XP Pro.
My View is that the Linux you get with it is way too limited and Ubuntu just does not work as well as could be expected – maybe another Linux (Fedora) might work better. Windows Works very well, you can see the speed go downhill but this is mainly for installing apps and the lag on the Webcam can be seen also. My Guess is with AntiVirus running in the background and the slow CPU – this makes sense BUT WIndows is much more usable then anything else. My Plan is to use it as a portable streaming machine of sorts – maybe I might use another USB Webcam though. I think the machine is fast enough, the screen is workable at the given 1024×600 and the gloosy looks suits well along with the very low weight. If you have a main machine and fancy a netbook for on the move – I would say go and buy one.
