I am going to disagree with what people are saying about net books. I am using one, and my brother has one as well and we do not see what some of the people are talking about. The only thing that i will agree with is that they do run a tad bit slower than a laptop but they are catching up. On my netbook i am running windows ultimate with no problem, so windows is no issue, and windows 8 will run great on these units. a standard laptop runs at around 2.0 GHz and a netbook starts at 1.66 GHz and can go up to 2.0 GHz. I am running a 1.66 GHz with 2 GB or ram and it is running great! One thing people have to do with netbooks is remove whatever anti-virus program comes with there netbooks and install Microsoft's. just by doing this you will see a big increase of speed on the netbook. there is other things you can do to speed up netbooks and even laptops. I would not consider netbooks as the cheep way to go to get a computer because if somebody likes a portable unit like a netbook and the prices are where they are, we are not going to tell them to raise them up are we? i wish i had my netbook when i was going to college, it would have saved me lots of desk space. so who ever is shopping for a netbook just make sure you ask for what you are looking for, another thing, i love the battery life on these things, about 7 hours if i turn off my screen but still running on the high Performing plan, so not slowing my computer down just turning off something i can't even use lol.
From: Chip Orange Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 5:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: recommendations for netbook, or laptop Yes you can use external keyboards, but then why buy such a pc with a keyboard you can't stand? Your point about netbooks is just what I was trying to convey; they are very very slow at everything, and the only thing to recommend them I suppose is that they are the absolutely cheapest way to get a pc. Chip -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Baracco, Andrew W [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: recomandations for netbook, or laptop One can always plug in a USB full size keyboard if you don't like the laptop keyboard. Lately I have been using my Asus netbook as my primary computer because it is the only working PC I have at home, and have concluded that a netbook is a good secondary or mobile machine, but not up to everyday use. For one thing, I notice that programs and web pages load slower, even though I have 2 GB RAM. Andy From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:03 PM To: 'Sunshine' Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: recomandations for netbook, or laptop Hi Sunshine, You could buy an external USB optical drive, and connect it to a netbook as needed. The primary difference though, in my opinion, and it's important to understand this, is that netbooks run considerably slower than laptops, and this has caused a lot of complaints among my friends who have purchased a netbook, thinking it's just a smaller and cheaper laptop, and then they can't stand it's slow speed. They often come with a limited version of Windows 7 as well, and a really small and hard to use keyboard. I would not recommend a netbook; I'd either buy a low-priced laptop (which is usually the 15 inch screen ones weighing in around 5 pounds, and often can be found under $400), or I'd spend the money as someone has already recommended, and buy the ultra small/light-weight laptops which are usually 12 inch screens weighing in under 3 pounds (these too may have a keyboard too small to be used comfortably). I like Dell and Lenovo as brands. There are some laptops available with a numeric keypad if you don't think you can get used to the fn-key combinations used to simulate the numeric keypad keys. If you custom order one, I'd recommend asking for the 32-bit windows, and the extra-large 9-cell battery (which sticks out the back slightly, but not noticeably in my opinion, and gives you an extra 1.5 hours of time usually). hth, Chip -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sunshine [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 11:38 PM To: GWMicro List Subject: recomandations for netbook, or laptop i am looking for a netbook, or laptop, does anyone have any recomandations for these? would like the netbook, or laptop to have a dvd/cd burnner drive, and internal hard drive windows xp or windows 7 32 bit if at posible, and if not 64 bit will be good as well. thanks in advance If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
