Been trying out the netbook more, now that I have Linux on it. Ubuntu is a little quirky, but it is pretty intuitive. The simplified desktop is very nice and perfectly suited to the small netbook screen. I did a little test today:
Ubuntu:
Cold boot to desktop, no disk activity, 43 seconds.
Time to load Firefox, first load 4 seconds.
Time from cold boot to online, able to open a web page, 48 seconds.
Windows XP:
Cold boot to desktop, no disk activity 65 seconds
Time to load Firefox, first load, 17 seconds.
Time from cold boot to online, able to open a web page, 82 seconds.
Mind you, this is on identical hardware, dual boot system.
Kinda telling, don’t you think?
The image at the top of this post was taken using the webcam built into the netbook and resized using the GIMP. This whole post was done on the ideapad.
These netbooks are too much fun.