25/06/2009, 11:25 AM
25/06/2009, 11:53 AM
If u don't need the processing (as in u can live with things being a little slow), the screen size, the Optical drive and all, but want quick access to some movies, music, other files and Internet while keeping things portable, then yes.
25/06/2009, 11:56 AM
Lol, the joys of portable computers.
Had the same experience like you. Laptop came with Vista Home Basic, upgraded to Home Premium and then onto Windows 7. Found my Ubuntu 8.04 CD and decided to give ti a go, didn't boot. So the hell with that.
Later on, got Ubuntu 9.04 and installed it. Had to ditch through the install and fudged up everything. Fixed it later and repartitioned. Then, I had to shrink the Ubuntu partition and expand the Windows.
So much to do, so little time. :P But good job on getting that netbook.
Had the same experience like you. Laptop came with Vista Home Basic, upgraded to Home Premium and then onto Windows 7. Found my Ubuntu 8.04 CD and decided to give ti a go, didn't boot. So the hell with that.
Later on, got Ubuntu 9.04 and installed it. Had to ditch through the install and fudged up everything. Fixed it later and repartitioned. Then, I had to shrink the Ubuntu partition and expand the Windows.
So much to do, so little time. :P But good job on getting that netbook.
25/06/2009, 05:39 PM
Mickey Wrote:boogschd Wrote:lol @ 2 weeks for windows.
tl;dr though
netbooks are slow for my liking ...
(or maybe its cause its running vista ... idk)
/grats on the new toy :D
lol it was 2 days not 2 weeks :p
congrats on the netbook
personally never tried one but they seem good for light tasks
DO'H!
theyr ONLY good for light tasks imo :D
25/06/2009, 08:33 PM
Lol, thanks :P
Main issue is lack of the optical drive. Oh, forgot to mention that I actually did try my SATA burner. I plugged my SATA»USB HDD adapter thingy in, but it appears that the USB ports don't provide enough power - even with a split cable with one end in my desktop. One possibility I was thinking of was sticking the SATA cable into the netbook's SATA port with a power component from the desktop, and the HDD running through the USB casing. Issue there was that I probably wouldn't get AHCI.
Older laptops seem to be a reasonable alternative to netbooks (faster and bigger) but weighing up costs of upgrading the RAM+HDD plus the battery not holding as much charge, plus the risk of eBay, I thought it better to just go with the netbook.
Main issue is lack of the optical drive. Oh, forgot to mention that I actually did try my SATA burner. I plugged my SATA»USB HDD adapter thingy in, but it appears that the USB ports don't provide enough power - even with a split cable with one end in my desktop. One possibility I was thinking of was sticking the SATA cable into the netbook's SATA port with a power component from the desktop, and the HDD running through the USB casing. Issue there was that I probably wouldn't get AHCI.
Older laptops seem to be a reasonable alternative to netbooks (faster and bigger) but weighing up costs of upgrading the RAM+HDD plus the battery not holding as much charge, plus the risk of eBay, I thought it better to just go with the netbook.
25/06/2009, 08:42 PM
1GB of RAM is probably a bit low. The laptop I was using had 1GB of RAM, and I always seemed to run out. But then again, back then (before I got my current machine), I was playing games and encoding videos on it, sometimes both at once, since I really don't want to stop that encode I've spent ages on already. You aren't going to be doing that, so it may be enough for you. My brother bought another RAM-stick to total 2GB though.
As for Acer giving you a CD when you had no CD drive... Heh, I remember my brother also had that problem, only replace Acer with MSI.
As for Acer giving you a CD when you had no CD drive... Heh, I remember my brother also had that problem, only replace Acer with MSI.
25/06/2009, 08:54 PM
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Lol, thanks :P
Main issue is lack of the optical drive. Oh, forgot to mention that I actually did try my SATA burner. I plugged my SATA»USB HDD adapter thingy in, but it appears that the USB ports don't provide enough power - even with a split cable with one end in my desktop. One possibility I was thinking of was sticking the SATA cable into the netbook's SATA port with a power component from the desktop, and the HDD running through the USB casing. Issue there was that I probably wouldn't get AHCI.
Older laptops seem to be a reasonable alternative to netbooks (faster and bigger) but weighing up costs of upgrading the RAM+HDD plus the battery not holding as much charge, plus the risk of eBay, I thought it better to just go with the netbook.
Ur not supposed to use disk drives with Netbooks.... apparently....
25/06/2009, 09:12 PM
Assassinator Wrote:1GB of RAM is probably a bit low. The laptop I was using had 1GB of RAM, and I always seemed to run out. But then again, back then (before I got my current machine), I was playing games and encoding videos on it, sometimes both at once, since I really don't want to stop that encode I've spent ages on already. You aren't going to be doing that, so it may be enough for you. My brother bought another RAM-stick to total 2GB though.1GB is plenty for most things. Have been using 1GB for ages with XP64 before I got my current machine (note XP64 uses more RAM than XP32).
As for Acer giving you a CD when you had no CD drive... Heh, I remember my brother also had that problem, only replace Acer with MSI.
But another 1GB stick is like AU$20, so no big deal.
feinicks Wrote:Ur not supposed to use disk drives with Netbooks.... apparently....3.5in HDDs? They won't fit in...
25/06/2009, 09:16 PM
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:feinicks Wrote:Ur not supposed to use disk drives with Netbooks.... apparently....3.5in HDDs? They won't fit in...
External/Portable Hdds + Flash drives? I used to put all the ISos on them and use the "cds" that way.
26/06/2009, 02:04 AM
I'm really not sure what you're trying to say. Majority of netbooks have 2.5in disk drives. Only a few have SSDs.