https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=3438&p=41130#p41130 ----------------------------------- GrouchoCaesar Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 07:51 AM Re: The Twelve Tasks Of Grouchales ----------------------------------- Number 2 DAWN 9th March 2009, 7:45PM. In my first insane spending spree I bought an ASUS Eee 901. Unfortunately, though it was nice enough, it was crippled by the size of it's SSD - something like 12 Gb - which made it difficult to upgrade. So, I gave it away to one of my friends, and replaced it with a Toshiba NB100, which I immediately christened Dawn after the littlest member of the Scooby Gang from [i]Buffy The Vampire Slayer[/i]. I have to say that Dawn is the first computer from Toshiba I've owned which has not lived up to my expectations. Don't get me wrong - Dawn works quite well. But there's no sense of style to her, nothing that says that this is something that only Toshiba could have done well. Now, I've had issues with Dawn before. When I first bought her, she had been used for a couple of days as the shop's demo machine so once home the first thing I did was initiate a complete re-install from her recovery partition. Unfortunately there was a problem with the installation script (the recovery partition being a generic Toshiba design instead of one built for the NB100 specifically) that meant not everything was installed automatically[sup]1[/sup]. And it took an age to do what it did do, as well. And worse, it installed a huge amount of unwanted demo stuff on her hard drive - which took a while to remove. After dealing with that, I've set her up as my library PC, with software installed on her to keep track of all my books, magazines, comics and especially my DVD movie and TV collection[sup]2[/sup]. But for all that, she's never been on the net, so I suppose I had better do so to register her copy of XP Home with the fiends at Redmond.... Well, that went easily enough. After a few rounds with Windows Update, all seems to be well. Dawn's Vital Statistics Toshiba NB100 Netbook 1.6 Ghz Atom N270 processor 1GB of RAM Intel GMA950 Graphics Chipset 1024 x 600 LCD Display 120GB HDD MS Windows XP Home [sup]1[/sup] And there is still some little piece of hardware that comes up as uninstalled... can't find out what it is, or what it does. Oh, well... [sup]2[/sup] My DVD collection was large enough before... but now.... sheesh.