debcook

I am finally working from my Dell Mini 9 netbook. It is up and running with only a minor glitch but considering the major upgrades to 2GB Ram and 64GB SSD - not bad.

Overall I like it. The keyboard is a bit smaller than I am use to but it is nothing that I cannot deal with. My Sony Vaio is only 11.1 inches so the keyboard is pretty similar to this one. My hands are small so I actually like that I can rest my palms on the edge of the netbook while tying. I am sitting on a cushy couch with a pillow on my lap and the netbook is balanced nicely.

Drivers are continuing to be an issue. Although device manager assures me that all drivers are installed and working correctly – they try to reload each time I boot up. I cannot see that anything is missing and everything is working fine so I am leaving well enough alone for the next few days.

I expected more peppy performance overall. Some programs take a little longer to load than I expected them to. Boot up is not too bad but I guess I expected or should I say wished for nearly instant on.

In any case I will know more about the performance after using it for a longer period of time. This is only the second blog post that I have written on this netbook and I am still learning its idiosyncrasies.