My new netbook

I am making my very first blog post from my new Acer aspire1 netbook. It's got the 10 in. screen and I am just starting to get the hang of it. This is the first real typing I've done on it so I'm having to get used to the keys.

The reasoning behind this purchase is it will be a perfect littel travel companion when I go to Scotland. They claim the Acer has "up to 7 hour" battery life and I've been using it for almost half an hour and the remaining battery life meter keeps going up instead of down! Right now it is at 8:11 remaining. I kind of wonder how accurate this meter is. If this keeps up I'll never have to recharge it. Maybe I can sell the excess energy to Al Gore.

The netbook comes with Office 2007 trial edition, MS Works, McAfee AV and a few other utilities. The first thing I did was delete most of those and install AVG antivirus, Google chrome and am going to install Open Office shortly. I'm trying to use programs that are not as resource intensive as most of the usual Office and MS products are. I'll be using various web mail clients instead of Outlook or OE for instance.

I'll also be using it to back up my photos when I travel since it will fit in the top of my backpack camera bag. It's even got a media card reader but I haven't tried that out yet. Well back to downloading and updating until I get it all set up.

Slainte!!