Asus K501, Jelly Bean update and the government steps in.!

I picked up a broken Asus K501 this week, not a major repair, it had been dropped and it broke the hard drive. It only took a couple of hours to re-install the operating system and updates and it was ready to go! The only other thing I did was to max out the ram (A disappointing 4Gb) On an interesting note, this is the first "modern" notebook that I've worked on that had 2Gb of ram built into the motherboard? Interesting? It was built in a way that makes it easy to work on, quite easy. Five screws, and the entire bottom panel comes off, GREAT idea guys! REALLY!

  The K501 is a nice laptop if your not planning on doing any gaming on it. The system ratings are low (A measly 3.3 out of 7.9) However, it will surf the web, play video's, and do most anything you ask of it. I only had it in my hands for two days, gone already! Not a machine I would replace my current laptop with, but a nice unit anyhow.

**Samsung OFFICIALLY released Jelly Bean for the 7" Tab 2 (Through its update service) on Friday. It will take some getting used to, but I'm up to the challenge!

As all of you are more than likely aware, Mozilla released Firefox 18 last week, faster, safer, blah, blah! LOL! Get it! It works great!

On another interesting note, the government last week recommended that if you use Java, you disable it for now. There is a security flaw that will let a hacker take over your computer.....no fix released yet!

I'm still busy at work, it will be that way for a while, so my posts will be sporadic, like they have been.