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2.5 stars
"At least it looks nice"
Pros: The look, the feel, the remote control, the screen size
Cons: the software, the speed of the processor, the amount of memory included
Summary: we got this on a saturday, that evening it ran SLOW! like wow, brand new laptop this slow? geeeeez.. maybe its just Vista basic, lets upgrade the memory to 1.5 gig (it comes with 512) STILL SLOW.. we took it back. after 3 days of use IE would not open more than 3 times and I would have to restart to get it to open those 3 times. Everything i tried to do stopped responding. Networking this thing with XP is a horror(upgrade to premium its better than basic) but the hardware on this thing has some flaws, i understand vista is new but it should still work!
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Being a system Admin, I quickly took an image of the default drive (preloaded Vista basic which is sooooooooo slow) and then installed and tested Windows XP Professional. With Windows XP it's a different story. It runs very smooth and quick, which tells me that either the driver set they have for Vista isn't mature. Not to mention that 512MB just isn't going to cut it anymore. I too purchased an additional 1GB of RAM.
Although I am quite impressed with the XP install, the battery only worked once for 2 hours after fully charging it. Now the battery is staying at 0%, even though I've had it plugged in for 3 days. Not a good sign. Maybe that's why they were so cheap.
