Dell Mini 9 unboxing
My Dad ordered a Dell Mini 9 netbook recently. I took some photos of the unboxing.
Here are a few miscellaneous thoughts:
- You know how IE plays that little “mouse click” sound when accessing a new web page? It’s not so bad except for the fact that it often happens a second or so ”’after”’ you click on a hyperlink. This makes the computer feel slow and/or broken.
- Windows XP claimed it “successfully restored” my wifi connection even though IE still couldn’t access Google.
- The netbook sometimes plays a quiet hissing sound instead of an audio clip.
- Dell has prepackaged Google Desktop Search on this machine. A few minutes after completing Windows setup, the Google Desktop Search icon notified me that “Google has blocked an attempt by another program to change your search preferences”. I suspect it was IE, but c’mon, ”’pre-installed”’ software shouldn’t fight with itself.
