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Acer Dual Core Netbook, €225 @ Argos
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I picked up mine yesterday. The Android dualboot configuration is pretty much useless, but apart from that I'm really impressed. I never used a netbook before (actually I once had an Olivetti Quaderno, hence my name...) and I think I will get used to it fairly quickly
The palm rest on mine is silver, not white as in the pictures, but that's probably a good thing. After getting rid of about a gigabyte of bloatware (including nearly 700MB of Acrobat Reader) I partitioned the drive into 50GB c: and about 160GB e:, while d: is the 4GB Android partition which apparently can't be merged with any of the others. I'm currently encrypting the whole thing with truecrypt, which is a must for any device that is to be carry around.
I strongly advise to "burn" the recovery (factory default) discs before messing with the partitions and found the "Virtual CD"-software extremely useful. It can be downloaded at http://www.virtualcd-online.com, a 30 day trial version is sufficient and free. You can easily "burn" the discs to iso-images and store them on another machine or external drive, they can then be turned into real media later should you ever need them. The same software is also very helpful for the encryption of the netbook with Truecrypt, because you can easily burn and mount the recovery disc (to verify it) for Truecrypt as well.
If anybody needs help with it just ask.
And finally:
When I ordered my netbook immediately before starting this thread on wednesday I received an order number valid from saturday to monday. I checked again after the stores had closed on thursday and could then reserve one for pickup yesterday, on which I am typing this right now. To cut my 100th post short:
I have one order number to give away, which is valid for the Tralee store immediately til monday inclusive. Just reply and I will send it out.
P.S. One seems to be available in the Killarney store right now.0 -
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Badgermonkey wrote: »1 available for collection today to Monday in Cork Mahon.
I assume you have this reserved??
Mahon would suit me better to collect... Then I could pass on my reservation for Blackpool to somebody else.
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I picked up mine yesterday. The Android dualboot configuration is pretty much useless, but apart from that I'm really impressed. I never used a netbook before (actually I once had an Olivetti Quaderno, hence my name...) and I think I will get used to it fairly quickly
The palm rest on mine is silver, not white as in the pictures, but that's probably a good thing. After getting rid of about a gigabyte of bloatware (including nearly 700MB of Acrobat Reader) I partitioned the drive into 50GB c: and about 160GB e:, while d: is the 4GB Android partition which apparently can't be merged with any of the others. I'm currently encrypting the whole thing with truecrypt, which is a must for any device that is to be carry around.
I strongly advise to "burn" the recovery (factory default) discs before messing with the partitions and found the "Virtual CD"-software extremely useful. It can be downloaded at http://www.virtualcd-online.com, a 30 day trial version is sufficient and free. You can easily "burn" the discs to iso-images and store them on another machine or external drive, they can then be turned into real media later should you ever need them. The same software is also very helpful for the encryption of the netbook with Truecrypt, because you can easily burn and mount the recovery disc (to verify it) for Truecrypt as well.
If anybody needs help with it just ask.
And finally:
When I ordered my netbook immediately before starting this thread on wednesday I received an order number valid from saturday to monday. I checked again after the stores had closed on thursday and could then reserve one for pickup yesterday, on which I am typing this right now. To cut my 100th post short:
I have one order number to give away, which is valid for the Tralee store immediately til monday inclusive. Just reply and I will send it out.
P.S. One seems to be available in the Killarney store right now.
Could I get the Tralee code please, living in Ardfert, desperate for one0 -
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Badgermonkey wrote: »No, was just flagging it for all and sundry.
Someone has obviously reserved it now.
No Probs.
Will collect the one in Blackpool then
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