I finally got my laptop. And what's the first thing I decided to do with it? Wipe the hard drive. And thanks to the fact that it does not have a optical drive, I had to make a working bootable USB, which took me three days to finalize. Now I have Windows XP on here, which puts me somewhere in the mid-90s. I'm working on trading in my copy of 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium for the 32-bit version. If only the 64-bit version would unpack in a 32-bit environment, then I wouldn't have to wait.
The island/chiclet keys have a funky coating on them which makes my fingernails scrap against them and has the exact same feeling of scraping your nails against a chalkboard. I now have to modify my typing posture to avoid the scraping and the wonderful feeling that runs up my spine every time.
Other than that, I really like the design and the functionality of the computer. It's simple and sleek. The screen is pretty nice, although it has a funky resolution (1366x768) which might make the few games I plan on playing look odd. Although, now my battery lasts more than 15 minutes, so I can actually appreciate some mobile computing.
Also, I would like to slap the genius from Dell XPS who put the processor exhaust port in a place where it is blocked by the monitor. My new computer runs at 38-40C which is about 5-7C cooler and is pretty impressive considering what I was dealing with earlier.
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