{"id":151,"date":"2009-09-06T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-09-06T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T00:46:07","slug":"nearly-a-yeeear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/nearly-a-yeeear\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly a Y(Eee)ar!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been nearly a year since I first cracked open the case of my Asus Eee 701SD<\/a>.\u00a0 At the time, the netbook was probably a middle-of-the-road option, as far as the Eee line goes.\u00a0 I have used it as my main computer, running Ubuntu Linux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve been pretty tough on that computer.\u00a0 I’ve accidentally dropped it multiple times.\u00a0 I rarely turned it off, always running multiple Firefox<\/a> windows with way too many tabs active (just ask anyone who’s looked at my desktop recently).\u00a0 It’s kept up pretty well.<\/p>\n

Recently, however, I’ve been waiting… and waiting for my windows to respond and the wireless network to reconnect.\u00a0 And there has been a problem with the power cord connecting to the battery.\u00a0 It’s been a bit of a drag.\u00a0 And I realized that I’m expecting too much from that sweet little machine.\u00a0 So I invested in a new netbook.\u00a0 This one’s a little larger and has incredible improvements in hardware (it’s an Acer Aspire One<\/a>).\u00a0 I would have loved to get a newer Eee, since the new ones have improved so much.\u00a0 They even have one that has a touch screen and converts into a tablet PC<\/a>.\u00a0 The new Eee’s have bigger hard drives (or solid-state drives), more memory, better screens, etc.\u00a0 But they are difficult to find in local stores.\u00a0 Between Best Buy and Target, there are a few models available for immediate purchase, but most models need to be ordered.\u00a0 So, when looking for a product for immediate acquisition, I was forced to choose another brand (not that I don’t like Acer – they’re awesome, too!).<\/p>\n

So after nearly a year of use, I have figured out where the Eee 701SD fits into my life.\u00a0 It’s great as a secondary PC that can be easily transported and\u00a0 connected.\u00a0 As a primary computer, however, it doesn’t quite make the grade.\u00a0 I’m sad not to use it all the time now, but it’s cute little screen will accompany me often while on the go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been nearly a year since I first cracked open the case of my Asus Eee 701SD.\u00a0 At the time, the netbook was probably a middle-of-the-road option, as far as the Eee line goes.\u00a0 I have used it as my main computer, running Ubuntu Linux. I’ve been pretty tough on that computer.\u00a0 I’ve accidentally dropped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,26,56],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-asus-eee","tag-computers","tag-linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-2r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}