https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=3438&p=41131#p41131
-----------------------------------
GrouchoCaesar
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 09:01 AM

Re: The Twelve Tasks Of Grouchales
-----------------------------------
Number 3

MINX

9th March 2009, 8:00PM.

One of the nice things about having unforeseen money is being able to share it with family.  My Lil Sis has a two-and-a-half year old Toshiba Satellite M50 that has seen sterling service... and better days.  The battery is dying, the DVD drive is making funny groaning sounds, and the screen has the odd flicker.  So a couple of weeks ago I decided to get her a replacement notebook[sup]1[/sup] and settled on an ASUS M51V - which she promptly called Minx. Go figure.

Minx has been sitting on the kitchen table ever since, because Lil Sis won't use it until her iPod is authorized on the machine...

So, I've been tasked with doing all the boring net stuff to it.... and yet again, it seems to go on without a hitch.  I'm setting up Dawn at the same time, and it's slightly confusing going from one OS to another.

I've had to uninstall the obligatory MS Office '07 Trial that has been installed on EVERY NEW PC REGARDLESS OF MANUFACTURER I've bought in the last 3 months - even on tiny little Dawn!  In it's place, Open Office 3.0, which is free and less bloated.

Because this is my sister we are talking about, once I've set up all the security and updates and system settings, she immediately takes the machine off of me and starts filling it full of crap... by which I mean iTunes, and Google Toolbar...  But at least it's out of my hands now.  I must say it is a nice machine - what I saw of it...

Minx's Vital Statistics

ASUS M51V Notebook   
Intel® Core 2 Duo T5800 2.00Ghz
2GB RAM
ATI HD3470 ⁄ 256M
15.4" WXGA LCD
250GB HDD
MS Vista Premium

[sup]1[/sup] Okay... let's be honest - I'm not totally altruistic here, because I'll get to keep her old Toshiba laptop for myself.  Ubuntu, here I come...