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Aftre a protracted series of emails and phone conversations that basically meant waiting for PC World to get their ‘right people’ on the job the Netbook got picked up today for a replacement to be shipped once 7 working days is up from the time they receive it into their warehouse.

Poor show PC World, for the slow turn arouond and waiting for you to reply to emails. big hurrah for not even questioning that this is a geneine return. lets hope the next one is a fully happy bunny

The little beauty continues to be snatched at the earliest opportunity at home. The beauty of these netbooks is that they are so portable and light you almost forget that you’re using one.

The trouble with mine is that the sod just doesn’t want to start up sometimes and so back to PC it must go. I contacted their customer support during the week who said they’d get back to me in 5 working days. Sorry did I say customer support. Not a good start!

Checking through a few forums might have highlighted a bios problem so I’ll be interested to see what they come up with. Hopefully it’ll be a quick fix and I’ll be on my way. Just have to wait and see!

After looking around for several months i visited my not so local PC world. Took one look at the Asus eeePC 901 and a returned 4211 and it was immediately obvious. The MSI wind-u-like advent had a better look and feel to it and so I ordered one. Fast forward 3 days and it was siting at home through PC World’s online shopping

Unfortunately it has come with the Tech Guy’s back up utility on it which doesn’t always let the little monkey turn on. up pops the advent splash screen and then a little clunk can be heard at it turns itself off. Try it a couple of times and it can do it again or turn itself on. I think that I’ll mention it to PC World tomorrow to see if it’s a known issue. More on that later, I’m sure.

Apart from that really small problem the keyboard is ace for short amount of typing, you just have to be more accurate when aiming for keys. The screen is great and the processor is speedy enough for most things. Video playback is spot on as well, what more could you ask for?

After the fiasco of upgrading to wordpress 2.5 and 2.5.1 - Following the database destruction I am reluctant to do any upgrading at the moment. Some firm testing will have to be done before I part with the one I can cope with.

Just in case it doesn’t work too well i’ll be leaving it on XAMPP for a few more weeks and checking the forums for the inevitable questions about what happened to this or that!

Needless to say that Wordpress automatic upgrade plugin works for plugins but not for the site. I’m not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing really.

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Because of some changes at work posting via the web during the day is going to be a problem. So I’m attempting to set up a blog by email which just isn’t working one bit. Shame really. I’ll carry on trying and post back when it’s actually working!