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Re: netbooks - what to buy?
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2010, 09:41:52 pm »
Quote from: whitevalkery on September 18, 2010, 08:43:31 pm
Quote from: bwang on September 18, 2010, 08:42:00 pm
I have an MSI Wind U135 that I bought for $200. It works great, and is fully compatible with Linux.
@whitevalkery: Windows XP is perfectly fine. 7 is *not* going to like 512 MB of RAM.
i was talking about windows 7 starter though
7 starter/basic (as found on most netbooks) still uses ~400 MB of RAM on an empty desktop.
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Re: netbooks - what to buy?
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2010, 03:50:02 am »
If you want to be able to game on it too, I would suggest the Asus 1201nl, which has the Nvidia Ion graphics card.
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Re: netbooks - what to buy?
« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2010, 03:03:11 pm »
hmm.. what brand of netbooks should I trust? I know there is no netbook specific brand, but the brands that have the higher quality netbooks
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Re: netbooks - what to buy?
« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2010, 03:13:02 pm »
Quote from: Snake X on September 19, 2010, 03:03:11 pm
hmm.. what brand of netbooks should I trust? I know there is no netbook specific brand, but the brands that have the higher quality netbooks
From what I've heard... Acer Netbooks have the best keyboard. I have tried many netbook keyboards out at the stores and I must agree.

I ended up purchasing an Acer netbook because I found it at TigerDirect for $200 (no tax and no shipping charges). Then I upgraded the RAM, bought a 9 cell 11 hour battery (for $50 on Amazon), then purchased a touchscreen kit for it on eBay ($70), finally I installed an internal Bluetooth device ($15).

I love my netbook... It plays DirectX 7 games very nicely such as Delta Force 1 & 2. I haven't tried any DirectX 8 games on it though.

If you have any Acer specific questions... I could give you my opinion them.
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Re: netbooks - what to buy?
« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2010, 11:05:01 pm »
One thing I like about Acer stuff is that it tends to be much cheaper than the average computer. The only bad experience I had was a CRT monitor only lasting about 3-4 years and my computer fan going a bit loose at one point, but otherwise I was pretty fine with my old computer purchase back then.
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Re: netbooks - what to buy?
« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2010, 06:11:52 am »
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146766&cm_re=Ideapad_s10-_-34-146-766-_-Product

I've got an older version of this netbook here, I used it all the time until I got a better laptop. The only issue I had was the trackpad going out due to water damage, but they fixed it free of charge(was under warranty).
I've pulled off Team Fortress 2 on it, although I had a low-quality model pack on, and I had to use some questionable methods to disable particles(They caused crashes, and I basically had to write hacks for the game to disable them.)
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Re: netbooks - what to buy?
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2010, 09:19:40 am »
Interesting, although the RAM seems a bit low for Windows 7 it seems. When running games I assume this must take a friggin long while to load and possibly crash, right?

I wonder how much RAM each OS take on a fresh Windows install?
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