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S7* · 25/06/2009 11:25 AM

are Netbooks worth it? really?

feinicks · 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.

demonchild · 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.

boogschd · 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

ZiNgA BuRgA · 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.

Assassinator · 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.

feinicks · 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....

ZiNgA BuRgA · 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.

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.

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).
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...

feinicks · 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.

ZiNgA BuRgA · 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.

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