BTW, I bet Tony won't half be pleased we've screwed up his preferred
bottom posting :o)
Dilwyn Jones
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Hi Dilwyn,
Yes, we had better just get our email posting sorted out before the
"Tony Police" get on to us ... :-)
Your choice sounds very good. As you say it is fit for purpose.
The lowest cost Maplin's notebook is a 7" screen.
I think I remember seeing one last time I was ta a Maplins in
Llandudno.
They also have the MS Wind, on an offer, which is 10", with Windows
7.
Similar price to the Zoostorm and similar spec? I seem to recall that
Jochen described his wife's MSI Wind last year either in Quanta mag or
QL Today.
I am getting closer to being tempted by one of these .....
Have you been able to network it ?
Up to a point:
1. Gets onto internet easily enough (had a minor problem pairing it to
the Livebox Orange router, but it's not the first laptop to give that
problem, so I think it was a wireless router issue, not a netbook
issue)
2. The other PCs in this house will share quite well with it - my
desktop, Ann's laptop and the little EeeePc all talk to it happily.
Just remember that the default workgroup might be a different name in
pre-Vista and Post-Vista Windoze versions (think they default to
WORKGROUP in XP and something like HOME in Vista and Windoze7
3. Not tried Sernet. It doesn't have a serial port, and I have no idea
if sernet would work through one of the little USB-RS232C adaptor
leads you can get (vaguely same principle as Miracle QL serial-par
interface). What does work is making QPC2 and QXL.WIN shareable and
make shortcuts from all PCs to the one copy, you can then run the same
QPC on any one of the machines at a time (not secure though, i think
that needs a bit more work to make it available to certain users
only?), i think you can run more than one copy but only one can be
written to, the others read only (confirm that, Marcel?)
4. Printer sharing - depends on drivers I think. It can see my Stylus
880 and Ann's HP PSC1510 over the network, and both are set to share,
but you get errors when trying to print. Actually, not just the
netbook, none of the PCs will print to the others' printers - I know
for mine the manufacturer website says the printer driver ain't up to
it, not checked the other one.
I think these 10 inch netbooks are really handy little things, much
more useable than the older 7 inch screen ones like the original EeePC
(those work well enough, but screen and keyboard just too small).
Plenty of them around, research which ones you want at what price. If
like me your needs are fairly basic in one of these compared to your
main computer, they're quite adequate if all you want is a little
mobile system to run QPC and access the web using Windows.
Dilwyn Jones
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