29 October 2009

Asus

Got my oldest a cute little Asus netbook. We're pretty much all Macs at home, but his school uses windows software, so we got the Asus eee with a "starter" Windows 7 loaded. So far, so good. It's a nice little piece of kit.

5 comments:

zim said...

just out of curiosity, what kind of s/w do they use for school?

pyker said...

The dealbreaker is now Pages. The office stuff he'd been using, but office for Mac generally worked ok.

JustJoeP said...

My Asus XP book has met my expectations. I won't be migrating to W7, due to the giant back-up and transfer hassles. I hope your local W7 book continues to function adequately.

pyker said...

What are the issues? I guess msft is not making xp-->w7 a painless upgrade? Shame, w7 is getting great reviews. On the other hand, it's a netbook, as long as XP remains a stable base for a good browser (and email client), there's no big benefit to you upgrading OS anyway.

JustJoeP said...

If you want to transfer from XP to W7, I have read step 1: back up all data elsewhere. step 2: format hard driver. step 3: install W7 on fresh machine. step 4: use "XP to W7 handy transfer macro" that is included in W7, once it is installed. The newest Mac/Windows John Hodegman ads reinforce this, with migrating users having everything in boxes.