[Ham-Computers] Windows 7

[Ron Youvan]

Jay Eimer wrote:
> The issue is that a netbook is not really a full featured computer - they're designed to get on the net, and then do everything from there.  They are NOT designed to host and run programs locally.
>  
> The version of Win7 installed on them is also a "stripped" version, lacking many features.
>  
> Your issue is not Win7, but the netbook, and trying to use the netbook in a way it was not intended.

   I can't agree, I have an Asus PC100HE that does more than most laptops, including built 
in stereo MICs and a color camera, blue tooth (I have a wireless mouse)  WiFi, dual headed 
video adapter, stereo speakers, white LED back lit display and 9 hours of battery time.
My netbook only lacks three things, a DVD drive, serial port and a parallel port. (and I 
have adapters, the Asus DVD-RW/CD-RW/DVD-RAM drive was $70, is external and it runs on the 
USP port, no with other power)
  It has a very fast low power Intel Atom microprocessor, (XP thinks it is a dual core) 2 
gig of RAM, 160 Gig HD, and a full duplex stereo sound card etc.
   I choose to purchase the XP version, even though I am a LINUX freq.
Only M$ supports some of my things, my camera, GPS, PDA, flatbed scanners (models with no 
LINUX support) and a few other gis-mos that I wish to use.
   I run as many LINUX programs that have been ported over to M$ as possible and most far 
out perform the original made by M$ style programmers, like the Nikon program sucks 
compared to "ufraw".  I love gimp, mc and cqview.  I run the full suite version of sea 
monkey (just like the old Netscape) and open office, in place of the sample M$ programs 
that I instantly removed.  I use "imgburn" to make cds and DVDs with no problem 
whatsoever.  I run M$ security suite, zone alarm and "spybot search and destroy," it is 
very seldom on the internet and almost always behind a NAT router.
   I have loaded just about ever M$ only HAM program that I have found and I am ready for 
RTTY and a host of other things except for my 6 year old son taking 99% of my time, 
happily.  Logging, DX spotting just name it.  I have reduced the size of the icons and I 
have 90% of the screen filled with them all, including a half a dozen games that don't run 
on the desktop machine.  I paid for none of the programs, I can only afford the free ones. 
  A free screen dump to anyone that wants to see.
   Other than three or four intentional hardware short comings I see this as a full 
service rice box.  (made in Taiwan)
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