EggXpert

About a year ago I bought an HP Mini netbook (Not to be confused with Notebook).

The HP I bought has a Solid State HDD. It isn't as large as the disk drives, being only 8GB for a HDD, but netbooks are very small and therefore drop more than notebooks. So, going for a 60GB HDD was not worth the risk of damage (Trust me it paid off). Anyway, I didn't buy the netbook to do other than surf the net and socialize. So, I didn't need more then 8GB's. 

However, HP had the bright Idea to load the machine with Windows XP, and not some small device version, I am talking about the FULL version with SP2. Then on top of that, they only through in a 512MB stick of RAM, even though SP2 requires 1GB of RAM.

After only about two months of very slow use, the 8GB's on the HDD were filled very fast with updates and basic programs. No images, No music, and No video were on the drive. Nothing but OS and a few other needed Web based programs like Adobe Flash and Microsoft Sivlerlight.

Eventually, it got to the point where the 8GB's were completely filled with this necessary stuff to run properly. I couldn't even preform a defragmentation because I didn't have enough space available to complete the process.

GREAT!  

HP and Microsoft FAIL because they took the easy way out, and tried to load a heavy OS, with some 50 million lines of code (I don't know the exact amount anymore).

So, the other day, I decided to give Ubuntu a go. As I was reading through the website, i came across this little NETbook Gem!

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook

An Operating System designed for a NETBOOK - Brilliant!!!!! 

I installed this bad boy and have noticed so many advantages, that listing them here would take for ever, but the major improvement is in the GUI because the Desktop is not the average Desktop. It is designed Specifically for netbooks, not towers (with a P4 or Dual Core), and therefore far more superior.

I was ready to just junk this machine until Google Chrome OS came out. It is almost as if HP and MS don't want the netbook to succssed, because they set them up for failure. Shame on them.

Thumbs up to the Open Source Community!

If you are interested in giving it a try as well, check this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks to see if there are any recorded issues with your model.

Yeah, they (HP) now have the option of XP or Ubunutu now.

As for storage, you can always mount up a network share if you want additional capacity (granted, that wouldn't have helped in your situation were OS files was the issue). But it is kind of cool that the netbook I gave to the wife access to 8TB |o.O|

8TB  that is awesome.

I didn't know they offered it now, good for them. I have yet to try and connect the netbook - with Ubuntu - to my other computers on the network - running Win7 - but it does have network (internet) access, so it might be able too.

Yeah, let me know if you need any help. I can show you how.

There is the Runbook sticky in the Linux main thread, a good start there |o.O|