I am still using an Acer Aspire Netbook running Windows XP and I would miss it dreadfully if I lost it. It has a usable keyboard and speeds along on 2 GB ram and 160 gb hard drive.
Everything works snappily and there is no slugginess or delay. I run Office 2003 on it. This is my standard tool for running/chairing meetings and mobile note taking. The keyboard is very good and the sound output and volume is excellent which is important for me because of my hearing impairment. I also have an Acer Aspire Laptop and interestingly both the sound and keyboards are nowhere near as good and robust as this netbook model. . I like it so much that I bought an identical spare one as a back up for £130 recently. It only has 1 gb ram but basically I just want it as possible source of parts or if necessarily a replacement for my main netbook. My reasoning is that I would then be protected for a few years. I realise that this is relatively old technology now but for what I need to do on the move, the netbook meets all my needs easily. It also works very well with NVDA. It combines a good keyboard with a lightweight computer. I am trying hard with the I Pod to learn to get to grips with touch screen keyboards but my productivity would plummet if I had to use a touch screen device for real rather than just playing. David Griffith. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 22 December 2012 20:02 To: Windows Access; Share Your Enthusiasm! Subject: Netbooks: One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure Hi Everyone! Its quite astonishing what's out there in the market place. quite some time ago I rid myself of my Asus EEEPC 1005 model and I regretted doing this almost at once, not because I was without a computer - I do have 6 other machines here <smile> - but more because of the size. No, the EEEPC isn't powerful but it does have a very nice audio output so therefore it can be used quite affectively for the playing of music or any other audio. Was looking round the Net last week and found some individuals selling Asus EEPC Netbooks so I followed these up and ended up buying the model of Netbook before the one I had plus a slightly older model for £200.00, giveaway prices. Now both these new machines run Windows XP but I'm not at all worried about that, at least 1 will take Windows 8 and I'll discuss that later. Its interesting to observe that Windows XP performed better than I could ever have expected on these machines, certainly better than I've ever seen Windows 7 perform on a EEEPC but then again I shouldn't be at all surprised, I was warned about how slow Windows 7 was compared to XP on a EEEPC by those who have had years mor experience with EEEPC machines than I have. One of the toys I hope to get some time next year is an "Ultrabook" PC though I'm going to have to research this topic by myself as I only know one person who has one of these things whereas with the Asus EEPC I knew stacks of owners and could draw on their experience. The Asus 1005 EEEPC will apparently take Windows 8 but here's the big insentave not to upgrade. Should anything go wrong and I need to recover the machine using the recovery partition on the hard drive then I'll have to go all the way back to Windows XP and do the whole Windows 8 thing again. To our knowledge, there's no way of erasing the XP recovery partition and replacing that with a Windows 8 1. I'm thinking about other stratedgies such as using Image For Windows to make a backup of the machine once Windows 8 is installed and putting that on an external hard or thumb drive, that way at least I'd have something similar to a recovery image, a Windows 8 base system to work from. I'm not sure yet as to whether the older 1004 EEEPC machine can be upgraded to Windows but it won't take me long to find out more. Windows 8 isn't the only operating system I'm considering with these machines, I could keep running XP and - given that these computers only play media - then Windows XP does the job quite nicely it seems though having said that the network support of Windows 7 and 8 is far better. I also have the LYNUX option to consider and most of the people I know who own these EEEPC computers have gone down that road. ********** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone +61390058589 fax +61397437954 SMS +61400494862 msn: [email protected] ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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