Soccer
Player Gives
Linspire An
A+
by Josh Tordsen
For
the last
couple of months, I have played host one of the professional soccer
players for
our local team. Shortly after he moved in, he requested a computer so
that he
could stay in touch with his friends from SW Missouri State and his
family from
Minnesota.
What he got was not
at all what he expected. The computer was a Pentium II 233
with 96Mb RAM and a 3.2Gb hard drive running Linspire 4.5. It took the
computer
a couple of minutes to boot completely and there was a little confusion
over the
chat applet as to whether or not it would do MSN (it does). Not exactly
top of
the line.
Now this was an
athlete, mind you, not an uber-geek. He had never even heard of
Linspire and barely knew what an operating system even was.
"I am going to use
you as a guinea pig for this new operating system I'm
selling," I told him. "If you have any problems or it won't do what
you want it to, just let me know and I will see what I can do."
I gave him a 1
minute "here's where everything is" tutorial and he
never complained and he never called for a problem.
It is now July and
my soccer player has returned to SW Missouri State. Just
before he left, I asked him to fill out a self-designed Linspire
evaluation
form. He did so happily. These are the results:
Rating: Bad 1 - 5
Good
1. How well did
Linspire Perform for you? Rating: 5
2. Did you
Experience any lockups or freezes? Rating: 5 ZERO
3. Did the software
on the system meet your needs? Rating: 5
4. Was Linspire easy
to use? Rating: 5
5. How well did it
surf the Internet? Rating: 5
6. How well did the
Chat applet work? Rating: 5
7. Did the games
perform well? Rating: 4
8. Overall score.
Rating: 5
When you add the
numbers up, the score comes out to be
97.5%. I was astonished. I sure that he experienced some sort of
problem, even a
minor one that, out of courtesy, he kept quiet about. But the scores
seem to
indicate otherwise. Not bad for an old piece of crap computer running
Linspire.
