austinjenna
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I have an Acer, 160gb HD, XP, 2gb ram, 10 inch, with 6 cell battery and its been great. The battery will easily last me 5-6 hours. I have streets and trips loaded on it and that is my gps when we are on vacation. Don't beleive that 'most' netbooks only have SSD's, the earlier ones did but not anymore as folks found out that is just not enough space. The Acer has easily upgradeable memory (like a laptop) and came with 1gb. The 2gb stick was like 25 bucks and 2 minutes to install.
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Maverick7687
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Usually the ones that come pre-loaded with a Linux OS will have SSD. SSD are not fast enough to run XP. At least the ones that go in the ASUS EEE's aren't. They are a major bottleneck in the speed of the OS if you try to run Windows. That's why the ones with XP have regular platter drives in them.
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strollin
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Maverick7687 wrote:Usually the ones that come pre-loaded with a Linux OS will have SSD. SSD are not fast enough to run XP. At least the ones that go in the ASUS EEE's aren't. They are a major bottleneck in the speed of the OS if you try to run Windows. That's why the ones with XP have regular platter drives in them.
I've never heard of an SSD that is slower than a mechanical hard drive, they're typically quite a bit faster. Generally, the problem with SSDs is size versus cost so in order to keep costs low the mfr puts in a small SSD that can fit a modified Linux distro comfortably but is just barely big enough to install XP.
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Maverick7687
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strollin wrote:Maverick7687 wrote:Usually the ones that come pre-loaded with a Linux OS will have SSD. SSD are not fast enough to run XP. At least the ones that go in the ASUS EEE's aren't. They are a major bottleneck in the speed of the OS if you try to run Windows. That's why the ones with XP have regular platter drives in them.
I've never heard of an SSD that is slower than a mechanical hard drive, they're typically quite a bit faster. Generally, the problem with SSDs is size versus cost so in order to keep costs low the mfr puts in a small SSD that can fit a modified Linux distro comfortably but is just barely big enough to install XP. I had never heard of it either, but on a couple of the articles I read when I was researching to buy mine someone put XP on one that had an SSD with Linux and the drive was the bottleneck. It could have been the fact that the drive was so full it could not use any Virtual Memory or something. I will see if I can find the article but it stumped me as well.
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I have an HP Mini 1000 netbook. It has a 16 gig SSD, and I have installed an 8 gig usb drive for 24 gig total. I have office 2007 installed and a few other apps, and still have about 9 gigs free on the SSD, and I use the 8 gig usb for docs.
You can indeed get netbooks with Windows (mine has Win XP), and you can load/install your own software.
These things are perfect for word processing, web surfing and e-mail.
My 3 cell battery lasts about 4 hours give or take.
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Vulcaneer
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MSI Winds here. Had it for two years. One is a 120gb HDD. New ones have 160gb HDD. MY Grand daughter has the 160gb model ($300). Both are great. WinXP Home. Bluetooth for mouse and printer. 3 usb ports and one card port.
Intel Atom speed is plenty fast enough. Firefox runs great. Have MS streets & trips and MS office loaded. Had Tiger Woods golf (massive program) on it, but needs my separate DVD drive. So I removed the program.
This unit is stone reliable, and perfect for my needs. Never use my big laptop any more.
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Maverick7687
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I have the 160gb model as well. As much as I have used it, the only complaint I have is that there is no line or indicator where you can rub your finger down and make it scroll. I know it's to the far right of the trackpad but sometimes it's tough to hit just the right spot. Trivial, I know, but it's the only complaint I have. I do need to break it open and add more RAM since I tend to slow mine down with the mass multi-tasking I do.
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Maverick7687
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Oh, and for the Linux users, and Windows users that may want to try something new. Ubuntu Netbook Remix seems like a decent alternative OS. I have never tried it, and I know I have mentioned Linux in posts before (I am not affiliated with Linux or Ubuntu in any way other than being a user, though not a hardcore l33t one).. The desktop is optimized for a small screen and is supposed to make accessing and finding things easier than going through all the menus.
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8.1 Van
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LittleBill wrote:McZip wrote:HP Mini Netbook used with Delorme GPS mapping, Verizon Air Card w/cradlepoint wireless router, Internet, Slingbox. Works great.
Right now DW is at shopping at Walmart and I'm posting from the parking lot and watching Ken Burn's National Parks from home Cable/DVR on Slingbox.
Because most Netbooks don't have hard drives the battery last longer than Laptops.
netbooks do in fact have hard drives, how else would they store their information?
you may mean they have solid state hd's, but you pretty much have to have a hd for comp to run. (to the guru's im not talkin pxe boot stuff)
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I looked at the net books and ended up with a Toshiba lap top with Vista at the same price. The screen and keyboard on the minis is to small and hard to read for me. I can not see what the big deal is with the netbook other than being small and different.
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