![]() ![]() No more waiting around for things to open and close. On top of all that, the wireless works a treat, I have Firefox, skype etc etc. LibreOffice documents open and close almost instantaneously. ![]() And THIS definitely made a difference! Boot-up time is now 30 seconds, shut down time around 15 seconds. Apart from a faster start/shut-down time, programs (e.g LibreOffice) were still taking of the order of several seconds from click to firing up. ![]() You'd think the PC would be able to cope with the lighter load - but not really. I backed up the data - and proceeded to install the full version of Ubuntu. Even with unnecessary processes removed from boot and minimalist appearance, boot time was around 5 minutes - plus another few mins for the anti-virus.Īlas, with the wife using her Mac exclusively for all work/conference/meetings - and with me using my work PC (Lenovo X1 carbon) only for meetings etc, our little Eee PC netbook fell into disuse after just 4 years. But with MS Office 2007 installed, plus all of Windows updates, plus anti-virus, plus malwarebytes etc - the Atom N540 processor was finding it hard to crunch through Exel spreadsheets. It was mainly used for taking along to conferences/meetings etc. Intel Atom N450 + 1GB RAM (with an additional 1GB added later) This time it was our Asus Eee PC 1001PX (sea shell) netbook ![]()
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