![]() ![]() 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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