Near as I can tell from reading reviews it's more like spend $800ish vs
$490 to get better CPU & maintain the same level of graphics as the ION
in the Asus 1201N. Caveat of the Atom platform is the artificial 2GB RAM
limit and not so hot CPU (N330 vs. C2D) despite being 64bit dual core.
Otherwise this has proven to be a very good trade-off.
Still what I gave up in CPU, I gained in video. To loose that to upgrade
to a C2D laptop (actually, a Turron unit like HP DV6) & get stuck with
GMA video makes no sense to me. For that matter the N330 is the best all
around Atom from what I read before purchasing.
Of course for $900 I've seen Asus ROG 17" laptops with killer video &
CPU specs at 3x the weight and 1/3 the run time. Would buy one in a
second if I needed that much mobile power but I don't which is why I
dumped my aging Dell C840.
On 8/10/2010 9:33 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 01:01 PM 10/08/2010, Joshua MacCraw wrote:
You base that on fact or just impression? I've not found W7 any slower
than XP on the same hardware.
In my testing, I haven't found W7 to be significantly slower than XP on
2GB or more. Haven't tried with less. Not a fan of netbooks. Too slow.
Spend the extra $200 and get an ultra portable.
T
On 8/8/2010 8:08 PM, Scoobydo wrote:
XP is faster especially with only 2 gigs of RAM..
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:30:08 -0500, Steve Tomporowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
I went out and got a netbook, it's an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB, which I've
upgraded to 2GB memory. It has an N450 in it, and, although I expected
it to be slow, it's pretty much a dog and Asus had decided that any
working area on the screen should be made as small as possible with
large menu bars, gadgets, etc. It came with Win7 Starter which brings
on the question: I have three options here: Clean up this install,
install Win7 Ultimate or install XP. I just don't know if XP will
actually be faster. What I'd like to do is be able to play video off
the hard drive, not necessarily HD. It just seems to me that the
Aspire Revo seems faster. (Yeah, I tried with wired network also).
Suggestions?
Thanks....Steve
