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micks
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22. November 2008 @ 14:46 |
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going to be buying a asus eee pc for my kid, unsure what one to get,its for the internet and to watch movies, any help will be greatful thanks
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ddp
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22. November 2008 @ 20:58 |
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which 1 as some if not all do not have rom drives?
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micks
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23. November 2008 @ 04:21 |
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been on net looking,see they are quite alot of netbooks, thought iwould put films straight on to the hard drive, would you recommend any and why,thanks
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24. November 2008 @ 00:17 |
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24. November 2008 @ 05:00 |
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Indeed. I bought an Acer Aspire One. The SSD sounded appealing, the idea of a machine that you could move about without worryingthe hard drive would get knocked. However all the reviews i read (apart from the ones by diehard SSD pushers) said that the only way to get almost decent XP performance was to install 'lite' versions of XP. I bought the 120GB hard drive version with Linux, with the intention of wiping it and putting XP on (full version), with a version (undecided as to which one) of Linux on later as a dual boot.
I did all this weeks ago and the machine is literally left on for days at a time, it's very quick indeed.
The only thing it lacks is an optical drive, but whenever i need to use one i just attach one of my USB2.0 enclosures for whatever task is needed, then remove it. Other than that the only thing i attach is a USB optical mouse as the inbuilt mousepad is a bit awkward to use for long periods. It's pretty good but you can't beat using a normal mouse.
It's nice having 3 USB2.0 ports, ethernet, a VGA connection for output to a large screen, 2 audio jacks and best of all it has 2 inbuilt card readers - i have a 4GB SD card which works great and it'd be nice to buy a 16GB SD card sometime.
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micks
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25. November 2008 @ 13:06 |
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this pc is for a six year old ,so do you still think it is not worth bothering with ssd drive
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25. November 2008 @ 13:20 |
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SSD should be fine for a 6year old, my two kids love using the Acer.
edit- however i probably wouldn't buy an SSD version for my own kids as they've been using computers since a very young age and would no doubt find SSD-related delays annoying..
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micks
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25. November 2008 @ 16:31 |
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what ive read if the netbook has an ssd drive it makes it shock proof,is this true or is it just a selling point
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25. November 2008 @ 16:33 |
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They are indeed supposed to be shock proof, it's just like ipod's etc
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25. November 2008 @ 16:44 |
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Drop an ipod... dead.. not shockproof at all.
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25. November 2008 @ 17:03 |
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Oh right, cheers, I was guessing, i can't stand ipods myself, bloody iTunes (my mp3 player is a Creative with a standard hard drive, hard drives are good enough for me, i make sure to never mistreat them).
I thought SSD's were hyped up so much because they were supposed to be shock proof, i guess they are but only to a certain point.
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25. November 2008 @ 17:50 |
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depends on the ipod as some have ssd's & others have 1.5" or 1.8" hard drives.
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26. November 2008 @ 14:58 |
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thanks a lot think ill go for the the bigger drive and take the chance,long as he keeps it away from his little sister it should be ok lol
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26. November 2008 @ 15:12 |
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27. November 2008 @ 15:36 |
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hi back again, looking at the msi wind u120 and the asus Eee pc 1000 has anybody have any thoughts on these two,or have any recommendations on any other netbooks.thanks again
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