Netbooks are awesome?

[Squiggy]

It runs on 1,6Ghz, it has 1gb memory, it has 250gb hdd, it weighs 1.15kg and the most epic thing is - it's half the size of my tft.
Costs 300€

Whaddaya think about such small notebooks?

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I think it's really useful for students, and a great option for people who travel a lot and do not need/do not want/cannot afford a full-size Notebook (Laptop). I'm personally considering getting myself one, as a student and programmer.

1.8GHz, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD are good enough specs for me (after all, I won't be playing games on it). I found this for around 3000 NoK - €355 - $530, and with a neat design .. I think it was Packard Bell.

What is putting me on the slightly doubting side, is the battery capacity.

 

[BlargHonk]

Eh, I wouldn't have ONLY a netbook, but they are good for some uses.

and there is no poll option for that ._.

 

[Masiah]

Meh, I got one for free. I suppose they're good when you need a lightweight computer and aren't planning to run heavy programs (aka games). Some netbooks do have an issue with their keyboards being too small for proper typing. Still, I prefer laptops, the difference in size and weight isn't that big, and laptops tend to be more potent.

And it's netbook, not notebook :S

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Too much gold for a good one.

BTW - Since when is it netbook?

 

[Deleted member 157129]

NETbook are the small laptops, 10"-13" ? About so.. started with the ASUS EEE if I recall correctly.

NOTEbook are the large laptops, 14"-21" ? .. so there you go, this thread is about the small ones, ie NETbook.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

I got an epic laptop with an epic battery.
It lasts 14 hours and it takes approximately 1 hour to recharge it
I got it from my school because they use computers on exams and shit and they don't want us to use other laptops. This is to prevent us from cheating

It's a HP Compaq 6530b 14" laptop with a HP High Capacity Battery which comes with it ^^
Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU @ 2.26 GHz
2 GB Ram
150 GB HDD
And a weird GPU I've never heard of:
2x Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family

Costs 2400 NOK.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

NETbook are the small laptops, 10"-13" ? About so.. started with the ASUS EEE if I recall correctly.

NOTEbook are the large laptops, 14"-21" ? .. so there you go, this thread is about the small ones, ie NETbook.

Ah ok didn't know that.

 

[BlargHonk]

The GPU sucks, it is an Intel

 

[The Reborn Devil]

It works pretty good, but it's not made to play with.

 

[Numerion]

Netbooks are awesome (i need one :O ) ,but you have to got also normal PC ,cause they suck at heavy programs (read- Games) ,but for example for school or programing they are awesome...

 

[The Reborn Devil]

I use mine for doing math and programming. Works great

 

[BlargHonk]

I couldn't stand programming on a tiny keyboard, I have big fingers

 

[Numerion]

tiny keyboard -> less space between each key -> faster typing -> faster programing...

 

[Deleted member 157129]

tiny keyboard -> less space between each key -> faster typing -> faster programing...

Faster, incorrect typing, you hit several keys at once, and for every click you need an additional click to remove the unwanted letter.. heh, well I actually haven't tried them, but on first glance they do seem rather tiny. Then again, I already have a pretty small keyboard myself, I'd imagine if you cut away the numpad and squeeze everything together it would fit on at least a 13" laptop.

 

[Numerion]

well...you can get used to every keyboard as i found out.... (i have pretty small one...)

 

[Dr Super Good]

I like my monster PC I currently have, it can watch BBC streamed videos without constantly pausing like my parents's laptop.

Ironically this PC is near top range and cost less than that laptop new.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I like my monster PC I currently have, it can watch BBC streamed videos without constantly pausing like my parents's laptop.

Ironically this PC is near top range and cost less than that laptop new.

You sure that it isn't just the Network Card/Ethernet/whateveryouwanttocallit? Or simply the internet connection.. I mean, I've never experienced something like that other than with a bad connection.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Well it is on wirless lan, but it still uses the same internet connection I do.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

Maybe your parents laptop sucks

 

[Dr Super Good]

It was like 2000-3000£ new, it is like 5 years old but I did not think stuff to be that demanding.
Anyway, we got it for free so it does not really mater.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

Free computer FTW!
The laptop I got from school costs 800 NOK per year for three years which is a total of 2400 NOK which is 426 USD.

 

[Panda]

They are alright, from my point of view.

 

[PurplePoot]

Your browser is often a factor on how laggy stuff online is. When I was on firefox I used to get certain sites lagging all the time, but on safari (same computer) everything runs beautifully.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Your browser is often a factor on how laggy stuff online is. When I was on firefox I used to get certain sites lagging all the time, but on safari (same computer) everything runs beautifully.

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.. what's Safari? And how did you manage to actually lag with Firefox? I mean, yes, the difference in loading time is huge when you go from IE to Opera and then to Firefox, it's leaping, but .. lag? OH WHOOPS THERE WENT THAT BUTTON, OH THERE IT CAME BACK. I mean, how do you lag with a browser?

 

[BlargHonk]

He means loading times being slow, and that is due to Snow Leopard messing with files Firefox used

 

[PurplePoot]

I'm not running Snow Leopard, and this applies on both operating systems.

Firefox's startup time, renderer, and javascript engine are all much slower than Opera, Safari, or Chrome, not to mention it is less standards compliant.

 

[HINDYhat]

Indeed, I've often interchanged Opera, Safari and Chrome and they all are faster than Firefox in my experience. I'd be using Safari if it weren't for the fact that it just randomly lag spikes every few minutes for no apparent reason.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Well, I used Opera a couple years back, before I discovered Firefox, and back then, Opera was not particularly fast, and it consumed immense amounts of CPU and RAM to run, not to mention by the time you had started it all up, you'd already be finished with what you were supposed to do with Firefox. They might've improved on it though (I certainly hope so). As for Safari, I've never heard of it, and Chrome just appears.. too simple and ugly to me.

I might be running a fast computer, but I've never had the opportunity to compare start-up time with Firefox, to me it is pretty much I click the icon and the browser is open. I had some fun before telling friends my computer knows what you want to do before you do it, so by the time I have selected the Firefox short-cut, my computer already started the process, because it was so much faster than anything else.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Internet explorer is what I use, and it works fine. The whole problem is it constantly having to restream the movies every few minutes. On my I7 PC it works flawlessly.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

Firefox is the fastest browser I've ever encountered. I've tried Chrome and Internet Explorer and they're both way slower than Firefox. Both on startup and when loading pages. Also, Firefox supports a lot of more stuff than IE, don't know about Chrome though. Firefox accepts almost everything that you put in a website, but IE doesn't and there are a lot of javascript stuff that won't work with IE. When I worked on my website it worked fine in Firefox and it looked good, but being the curious guy I am I just had to try IE. First of all, it took 10 times the time to open it and when it was finished it looked so fucked up.
It must be HTML Strict (or whatever it's called) for it to work with IE, lol.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Firefox is the fastest browser I've ever encountered. I've tried Chrome and Internet Explorer and they're both way slower than Firefox. Both on startup and when loading pages. Also, Firefox supports a lot of more stuff than IE, don't know about Chrome though. Firefox accepts almost everything that you put in a website, but IE doesn't and there are a lot of javascript stuff that won't work with IE. When I worked on my website it worked fine in Firefox and it looked good, but being the curious guy I am I just had to try IE. First of all, it took 10 times the time to open it and when it was finished it looked so fucked up.
It must be HTML Strict (or whatever it's called) for it to work with IE, lol.

Learn to write XHTML.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It used adobe flash player, I doubt it has anything to do with the browser and everything to do with the PC as it works fine on this PC.

 

[PurplePoot]

Indeed, I've often interchanged Opera, Safari and Chrome and they all are faster than Firefox in my experience. I'd be using Safari if it weren't for the fact that it just randomly lag spikes every few minutes for no apparent reason.

Yeah, it's weird like that on Windows sadly. Haven't had any such problems on OS X (well, I get the occasional few-second freeze, but that's always due to Flash or Reader being slow, which is browser independent and just adobe being lame).

Internet explorer is what I use, and it works fine. The whole problem is it constantly having to restream the movies every few minutes. On my I7 PC it works flawlessly.

ie: if it sucks, buy a better computer until it works fine rather than just switching to a good browser?

Firefox is the fastest browser I've ever encountered. I've tried Chrome and Internet Explorer and they're both way slower than Firefox. Both on startup and when loading pages. Also, Firefox supports a lot of more stuff than IE, don't know about Chrome though. Firefox accepts almost everything that you put in a website, but IE doesn't and there are a lot of javascript stuff that won't work with IE. When I worked on my website it worked fine in Firefox and it looked good, but being the curious guy I am I just had to try IE. First of all, it took 10 times the time to open it and when it was finished it looked so fucked up.
It must be HTML Strict (or whatever it's called) for it to work with IE, lol.

IE and standards compliance are mutually exclusive.

 

[BlargHonk]

Anyone here still use Netscape?