Hi Darren, I bet that's your antivirus program. Put Nod32 on it, and it hardly slows.
All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: Darren Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday 27 January 2009 12:21 To: 'Andy Baracco'; [email protected] Subject: RE: W.E. and Netbook PC's Well I have an advent and it runs totally fine with windoweyes. If you try and do an antivirus scan it can get sluggish so it's best to leave it whilst it's doing that, but other than that, it works absolutely fine. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Baracco [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 27 January 2009 04:45 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: W.E. and Netbook PC's So Raul, Which turned out to be your favorite? Inquiring minds want to know. Andy At 01:31 PM 1/26/2009, you wrote: >Chip. This is not my experience at all, and I have reviewed 4 >different netbooks. All in all, they all for the most part have; > >* Atom 1.6 ghz processor >* 1 gb of ram >* 120 or 160 gb of hard drive space >* 3 or 6 cell battery >* built-in wireless >* onboard lan >* onboard camera >* Windows xp-home > >Some have the added bluetooth support, a modem, and/or a few other >extras. In any case, since the hardware is about the same, what it >comes down to is how you feel about its keyboard, its management of >the battery, its shape, size, and feel. While opening Word, Excel, >or Powerpoint, they work fine. While using Internet Explorer and/or >Firefox, they work fine. Not as fast and screeming as a desktop pc >with far more power, but not as bad as one might think. > >Hope this helps. > >Chip Orange wrote the following on 1/26/2009 2:56 PM: >>Hi Steve, >>If you're doing it because of the cost, then you may want to know that >>system access is offering a "netbook" version of their screen reader >>for $150. I don't know what's cut out to restrict it to netbooks. >>Well, my impression of these devices is that their processing >>capability is very limited and slow; if you're using it for synthetic >>speech, and running a screen reader, and trying to do something like >>run internet explorer or ms word, I'd guess you'd better have some >>real patience. I'm not an owner of one, but they have to get the cost >>down somehow, and I thought processor speed was one of the ways. My >>preference, if money is not the only issue, would be to find the >>screen size and resolution that's the cheapest for a given line of >>high performing laptops. That's usually been the 14 inch ones lately, >>but it could be the 12 inch ones by now. Then you shouldn't have any >>worries in adding a full-fledged screen reader like window eyes, with >>synthetic speech. 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