Looking for a netbook.
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Topic: Looking for a netbook.
Posted By: pntbl freak
Subject: Looking for a netbook.
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 1:57pm
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Title says it all...Im looking for a netbook. I can go as high as $300. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 2:07pm
| My friend has a EEE that I've used extensively. I love the thing. |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 2:11pm
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Why a netbook when you can get a real laptop for around $300?
My last one I purchased (refurbished) was a dual processor with 2 gig of ram and 17 inch screen and dvd writer for $279 with windows 7. ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 2:12pm
Size.
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FreeEnterprise wrote:Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 2:22pm
Yeah man, it's not all about who has the biggest. ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 2:23pm
#1 Refurbished #2 17in =/= 10in I wouldn't mind refurbished but this is a gift for my dad for Christmas. ------------- |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 2:36pm
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BTW, this is the one I've used quite a bit. Asus has a damn good portion of the market on netbooks: *EDIT* Best Buy is apparently not a fan of hotlinking to their site or something, so just go to their site and search "Asus EEE." The first one that shows up is for $279. I used it a ton for field reporting. I'd highly suggest a USB mouse for it, as my fingers had a problem with the kinda smaller-sized trackpad. It also comes with Windows XP, which I'd rather have on something that small as opposed to Vista/7. For about $330 you can get the same model but with Windows 7. I think it runs a lot more laggy that way, though. |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 6:01pm
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I don't know of any netbooks with more than 2 gigs of RAM stock, so running Windows 7 will give you a nice slow day if you decide to go that route. Or you can pay more to upgrade.
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Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 6:12pm
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1GB is plenty to run 7. The problem with running 7 on a netbook is the CPU. ------------- 
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Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 7:07pm
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Watch slickdeals. They pop up on there for a steal. They just give you links to super sales people find.
Also, you missed black Friday.... ------------- 
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Posted By: Glassjaw
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 7:22pm
The netbook my mother had gotten was terribly laggy when it originally came with W7. A fresh install of W7 to remove all those junk programs seemed to do it absolute wonders though. ------------- |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 10:38pm
| I have an original Acer 9" netbook. I use that thing all the time...it's a workhorse. It has the 1.6 GHz Atom and 1 GB of RAM and I installed Win7 on it, and it runs just as well as it did with XP. |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 07 December 2010 at 12:04pm
Admittedly I don't own a netbook, but small memory is the problem people have been telling me about. When I start Windows 7, it uses 1.2-1.5GB itself. Granted, it might be different for someone not running 7 Pro. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 07 December 2010 at 1:59pm
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I have 7 Enterprise. It may be able to use more memory on startup, but 1GB is enough to boot quickly. -------------
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 07 December 2010 at 2:13pm
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I've got a 900 EEE PC, and I installed a stripped down version of XP on it, and that thing is the bomb.
It goes everywhere with me. My Laptop lives in my living room. I don't think I've EVER taken it out the house but the 900 and my Kindle follow me around. KBK |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 07 December 2010 at 2:37pm
A fresh install doesn't even take that much. Also, is that before or after superfetch starts loading programs into RAM? ------------- 
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 07 December 2010 at 3:30pm
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As of right now, 7 is using 30% of my memory. Which is 1.2 GB. It was installed yesterday morning. There's another 30% being using up by games and Firefox.
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Posted By: proteus316
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 2:53am
| I've got an HP 210-1170 got it for around $270. 1 gig ram with w7. 250 gig HD. For browsing and word processor it functions great. I have a 17" laptop and desktop for real computer needs. Hated carrying around an 8 pound laptop. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 9:00am
| ^ Yeah, a 17" laptop almost isn't portable. It's nice having that big screen when you're on the machine, but it feels like carrying a large pizza box around with you. |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 12:08pm
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I have a 15", and I'd say it's just about maxes out what I'd be willing to carry. My dad has a 17", and I don't think I could fit it into my backpack, which is kind of necessary to take it anywhere.
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 12:11pm
| My Macbook Pro is 15" and I'd much rather bring the EEE around. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 9:17pm
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I have Windows 7 installed on a Dell Inspiron 1501 with 1 GB of RAM (shared with the video card). It runs 7 flawlessly, even with the visual effects on. So I'm not sure if RAM is the problem. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 10:01pm
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I think there's a key thing to note here: what version?
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 10:49pm
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Posted By: Glassjaw
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 10:52pm
I am running 7 on my desktop with 1gb of ram / AMD Athalon 64 3800. It isn't the quickiest machine, but it runs well enough for to not have stepped back to XP yet. 1gb of Ram is pushing the limits though. Any less and it would be a mess. Edit: Running ultimate also.
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Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 11:06pm
Me too I run a XP/Hackintosh dual boot on it and it's what I use to browse the web and mess arround. When I'm not on my Iphone im on my Acer AspireOne AO150 ------------- 
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 11:09pm
| I was going to get another netbook and turn it into a Hackintosh, but I never got around to it, then lost interest. |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 1:53am
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I'm on a school computer running Windows 7 Professional right now. It's currently using just over 1 GB of RAM just for the OS. I don't know if disabling features, or different setups in Enterprise and Ultimate somehow reduce memory usage, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to run a netbook with a gig of memory. That said, if it works, it works. Not much to argue with there. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 12:57pm
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It works. I am currently running Win7 HP on my netbook. But I installed the beta and the RC on the netbook, which is the ultimate edition. Never had any problems with it. Over at my friends house, we even were messing with the Media Center, and other high resource features. No problems. Now, it didn't run as well as my desktop does, with a reasonably fast processor and 4gb of RAM, but for what I expect of it, it runs like a champ.
I've never had to wish it had better performance while surfing the web or whatever with it. |