Windows 10 on my Eee PC 1000H

Weather was shit. Let's not waste anymore words on it...

At home I have this old Eee pc that I bought in 2008. It was still running Windows XP and even something simple as browsing the interwebs was becoming a really big pain in the ass.

I read somewhere that Windows 10 is able to run on older devices so I wanted to give that a shot. I grabbed my Windows 7 license key and downloaded Windows 10. I also downloaded a tool called Rufus with which you can make a bootable USB flash drive.

After creating the startup drive I started installing, which was a really smooth process.

The Eee pc (1000H) not being very fast with only 1GB of RAM took a while to finish the installation but it went well.

And voila, just before bedtime I had a clean installation of Windows 10 on my little laptop! And yes, it is somewhat faster than Windows XP and I can browse the interwebs again without getting frustrated! :-)

The new Eee PC 1000H

I went out to look for a little Netbook today. Although my seven year old Compaq notebook is in good condition it's getting a tad slow (esp. since it only has usb 1.1) and it's also rather bulky. So I went to Harvey Norman, one of Australia's electronics stores.

I found the netbooks alright and had a look. Netbooks are downsized (in size AND features) notebooks or laptops. The one I was after has 3 x usb2, 1GB ram, 160GB hd, 1.6GHz Intel Atom cpu, a build in 1.3mp webcam, WiFi, blueTooth, Ethernet and a 10" widescreen that can display 1024x600. You can also attach a separate screen.

There it is, $799. That's a bit steep. I've seen it cheaper.
I never haggled before but I just thought I'd give it a try. When the salesman approached me and asked if he could help me I told him "yeah, I like this netbook a lot. If you can sell it to me for $699 I'll pay cash and take one home right now". He of course needed to discuss this with a superior. It was mad busy, the rush before Christmas. He came back and said the lowest price he could get me was $719 which we agreed upon. Not bad for a first haggle attempt.

I was going down, still loads more people going up...

Outside a fire truck was parked for a while. I think the driver was having lunch.

After work we went to the Thai Orchid in Henley to celebrate Nic's start of her holiday.

Our cactus still has flowers. They look cool, kinda alien.

This is my new netbook after I unpacked it at home. It's now happily charging it's battery.