Not supprised.
People are fooled by the specs on a netbook, they think because it
says 1.8 it must be atleast somewhat fast, but it's not.
By the time you factor in the differences in instruction sets between
a netbook and even a plain jane pentium 4, and the reduced bus speed,
and memory bandwidth, your really running something like a 700 mhz
pentium 3 machine.
Why do you think these things are so cheap?
There are also different types of computing, things that need
floating point will really suck on a netbook.
So you really do get what you pay for, netbooks are for college kids
writing papers, or to do light browsing and im, not for serious computing.
They also suck on most things audio, one of my students insisted on
trying to run sonar 7 on a netbook, and we went through all sorts of
issues before she upgraded.
Despite the improvements in efficiency ms has given w7 over the sorry
vista os, it's still more of a hog than xp.
So xp will generally run better on a netbook.
I know they're making these things a bit beefyer these days, but
they're still kind of like toy computers.
People like them because they're so small, but never make the mistake
of thinking your going to get anything like the performance you'll
get from a decent processor, even one a couple generations older.
At 09:25 AM 6/21/2010, Petty, Richard wrote:
Let me underscore one of Karen's points about Windows 7 on a
Netbook. I moved to a Samsung netbook to take advantage of the
better keyboard. The unit I purchased only came with Windows 7 Home.
Even with 2 Gb memory installed, the Samsung has ben excessively
slow with WE 7.2. I may attempt to purchase a copy of XP home and
install that on the Samsung or replace the unit as soon as I can.
Richard Petty
ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Karyn Campbell [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 8:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Netbook Recommendations with Window-Eyes
Janet,
Stay away from the Dell as the memory on that is not upgradeable as of last
August. When we bought our Asus netbooks. Also with the Dell, the function
key does not behave as expected.
I'm running XP on my netbook as it was recommended at the time that one not
get Windows 7 on a netbook. Keep in mind that this was prior to Windows 7
coming out.
We run 2 gb of RAM in our netbooks, having had that upgraded at the time of
purchase.
HTH.
Karyn Campbell, Illinois USA, [email protected]
Using WE 7.2 on Toshiba laptop running Vista home premium SP 1 32 bit with
Office 2007 and IE 7 along with Asus netbook running XP home 32 bit with
Office 2007 and IE 7 with AVG 8.5 free on both machines.
Check out my blog at packerbackerkaryn.blogspot.com
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