Pirate Bay yesterday and put it on a new hard drive last night. Impressive? No. took half the night to install 2 games WoW and EVE Online. While these 2 are typically slow to install to begin with, this was an exercise in patience (Sorry MS but they install much much faster on XP and Linux).Also you better be ready to turn the Administrator account on, as they will not install without admin privileges.
UAC is just as annoying as ever so I turned that off and still got hammered with it installing flash player. Go figure.
I do like it's responsiveness (so far) and simple things like installing and using firefox, toying with the cheesy games included, etc etc was pretty snappy and once I downloaded and installed the Nvidia drivers for Win 7, my computer I have it on was so much happier. Sadly it did not install drivers for the onboard audio, so I threw in a SB Audigy card. Setting up the surround sound was a bit of a chore but got it working half a**ed. Seems to me they could make this a bit easier for the avg Joe to do.
All in all, not too bad really. Needs work (after all it IS a RC). I can't wait to get on tonight and try out a few games and see what codecs I'm going to need to install to get different formats of video and sound working.
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