Hello; and a very good Saturday everybody We, that is to say Gordon and I, are the owners of an Asus EEePC NetBook which does not have Bluetooth as a standard feature; much to our disappointment. I confess that, had I known at the time of purchase that Bluetooth was absent from the machine, I wouldn't have bought this particular model. In fact, to be honest, in some ways I'm regretting buying an Asus machine at all; as there are apparently better alternatives out there for the price I paid for the machine. In fact, I could, and should, have gone for something like an HP machine which has an I7 processor which I've seen in the same shop for just a little bit more money since I bought this machine. Overall it was a mistake because performance-wise and hardware specification-wise, it's really quite poor.
Be that as it may, the deed is done; and so it's a case of living with it now. So, what I'd like to know is can anybody recommend a particular type of Microsoft compatible Bluetooth dongle that would work without the need to install obscure drivers and software such as that "Bluesoleil" or whatever it's called? We used to have a dongle like that for use with our old desktops and they were, not to put too fine a point on it, junk! Another option we're considering is selling this NetBook to my sister-in-law, and going for a totally brand new machine. In which case, does anybody have any recommendations/suggestions? it doesn't have to be a NetBook, we'd consider a reasonably priced NoteBook if we can find one with a decent specification. I'm not much interested in Acer, and given what I've seen of them performance-wise, I doubt very much I'd consider another Asus. One thing I really don't like about this machine is the fact that it won't let you go above 2GB of memory. yet, it's sold with Windows 7 pre-installed. Seems to me that 2GB is really not sufficient to run Windows 7 Ultimate, and we did perform that upgrade. The machine was supplied with a mere 1GB of RAM installed and Windows 7 Starter edition pre-installed. Pretty pathetic actually, given the recommendations of the software and hardware manufacturers themselves. Thanks. Lynne ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
