I had the fortune to win a netbook at the Intel/Sun talk on SPEC benchmarking (excellent talk BTW). I have to say that so far I've not been at all impressed. This is an Acer AspireOne running Linpus Linux Lite (http://www.acer.com/aspireone/aspireone_8_9/). The machine comes with a number of pretty decent applications. However a couple of weeks ago I traveled from FRA to SFO (got to go to the BASE meeting) with my daughter. I loaded up a movie she wanted to watch on the machine. I used a pretty common format when I ripped the DVD yet MPlayer was missing the audio codex it needed. The full version of MPlayer has the codec. I just discovered this hours before the flight so I didn't have time to sort out the problem so it was disappointing. That said, the OS is still a bit experimental.
Before winning one I was looking into buying one because I was interested in a machine that would allow me to do email and manage pictures while on vacations/trips so I could avoid lugging my large laptop with me. I realized that this netbook just wasn't up for the job when I first tried to transfer about 4-5 pictures from a USB stick over to the machine. That took about 15 minutes. In all fairness it's good at what it's advertised to be which is a brower and email appliance in a pretty little package. I think my expectations may have been a little out of line. I'm sure it would work a lot better with a proper hard disk installed. That said, I've been thinking thinking of rather than putting in a new hard disk, I might just put it up on ebay. Anyone interested in a very lightly used acer netbook? Regards, Kirk Dick Wall wrote: > I use an Asus EEEPC 1000 HD, it certainly doesn't have the full power > of a big laptop, but it does allow me to mix and edit the podcast on > the train, and also fits in my bicycle pack. > > I would recommend getting a true old fashioned hard drive based > netbook if you want to use it for this purpose. Solid state is really > nice for a lot of things, but the extra capacity of the hard drive is > going to be useful if you are mixing a lot of resource heavy audio, > and I still worry about the sheer number of writes on solid state > drives. YMMV. > > That said, I don't think it really matters which netbook you get to do > the work on, I know Acer and HP do good alternatives. Still, think > about a hard drive based one if you are planning to do a lot of audio > editing. > > Cheers > > Dick > > On Sep 5, 8:02 am, harijay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On some previous episode , Dick Wall mentioned that he once used an >> impulse purchase netbook from Target to mix the podcast. >> Just curious which netbook it was ? >> Thanks >> Hari >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
