Well my old 15" laptop broke and i've been looking at some netbooks. How are they in terms of performance? I don't play games much so i wouldnt need it for that (wouldnt expect a netbook to be able to play games anyway). Can it browse many tabs without lag? Can it play dvd quality videos without lag? Is startup quick, and hows battery life?
I don't really know the differences between different netbooks, which one should I get? It has to be available in Australia however, and posting US prices is usually inaccurate because even after currency conversion, technology here is much more expensive.
Depends on what netbook you're talking about they vary between brands/models.
they're awesome but make you look homosexual.
I recommend acer.
[QUOTE=koeniginator;28110384]they're awesome but make you look homosexual.
I recommend acer.[/QUOTE]
I disagree. Most of my friends think it's pretty cool. Even with it being red.
Acer Aspire One D250. Works for what I use it for, typing papers and excel spreadsheets for labs.
Dell mini 10
What I'm using right now, cheap, fast, great build quality, and some of the best commercial support there is.
Just don't use windows, this pretty much applies with any one you get, slow piece of shit. Also besides the price most netbooks now pretty much have similar specs, the rest is mostly brand elitism.
Take a careful look at the batteries and the keyboards when you're buying. You'll need a 6 cell battery for any reasonable runtime and if there are pictures of the keyboard, make sure there isn't any funky layouts (Tiny left shift key for instance). Some versions may be more lightweight, some may not have bluetooth. Just compare your options and read plenty of reviews.
Just make sure to remove the crap that comes with Windows 7 Starter.
wait for honeycomb tablets to come out, just so you can see if you would like them or not
Don't do it man you'll regret it. Tiny track pad, tiny keyboard and tiny screen don't mix.
My brother has a netbook, couldn't tell you which brand, and it does a perfect job for what he was planning on using it for. It sits on his living room table and he browses( ive seen 6-10 tabs with no lag switching or alt-tabbing ), he streams youtube just fine, and he writes alot.
I think a netbook is a great cheap alternative for a full size PC or laptop, but as you said, you won't have luck playing flash games or installed games.
Here's two netbooks you can compare:
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220859[/url]
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220806[/url]
The second one is roughly a bill more and has a slightly faster processor; other than that, they are the same thing. I included 2gigs RAM and the biggest possible screen because you said you were interested watching movies, and I stuck with asus for both due to known company quality and familiarity with their product.
If the game is fairly old, you have a chance of running it decently. I got KOTOR running with Intel GMA on one of the older Atoms.... Acceptable, not blazingly awesome though.
Quake 3 works great though.
[QUOTE=moesislack;28126495]Don't do it man you'll regret it. Tiny track pad, tiny keyboard and tiny screen don't mix.[/QUOTE]
The whole thing is tiny, and that's the goddamn point.
:downs: to you.
Pretty much any EEE.
If you can wait, hang on until Fusion comes out. The netbooks on sale now are almost identical to the one I bought for my Mother 1.5 years ago.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;28128130]Pretty much any EEE.[/QUOTE]
I'd say so too... I'm not much of a netbook fan myself, tho.
I hate tiny keyboards, i can't even get used to laptop's ones.
Get one with Ion or or whatever they're coming with now if you want to stream YouTube at decent quality and play some games. My HP Mini 311 plays Torchlight and Oldblivion pretty well.
I'd go with an AMD Fusion [laptop/netbook]. They're very very powerful compared to all netbooks, while their battery are just a tad weaker than netbooks.
How about getting one of big touch screen Android phone if you haven't got one already? Almost same price if you get it with contract
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Assuming you have desktop pc
I have a 1015pn and its awesome. its runs everything fine, I even got it to play burnout paradise ok, but it runs the old gta games fine. I upgraded it to home premium because newegg has it for $30 when I bought it.
Acer has some pretty nice netbooks, if you have the money I think you should go for one of their Dual core netbooks. I have the
D255 with a single core, and it runs Windows 7 pretty well. I've used it a lot to play flash video from various sites, and surprisingly it's better at playing Youtube videos than my old computer (Which was a Celeron 2.66GHz). I've pretty much taken my netbook everywhere since I got it. About the battery life, my netbook holds up to 4 hours, which turned out to be perfect for me. Get a good netbook with Windows 7 and if it comes with 1GB RAM, make sure you can upgrade it, because my netbook came with 1GB and now that I've upgraded it to 2GB, it is significantly faster...
I've been thinking of getting something like the HP DM1Z with the new AMD APU
[QUOTE=Killerelf12;28127277]If the game is fairly old, you have a chance of running it decently. I got KOTOR running with Intel GMA on one of the older Atoms.... Acceptable, not blazingly awesome though.
Quake 3 works great though.[/QUOTE]
The newer netbooks with the AMD Zacate chips are really nice in terms of GPU performance. I have AMD's old Athlon Neo / Radeon HD 3200 netbook, which has okay battery life though does play a fair number my games (Barely plays TF2, somewhat able to play L4D, Garry's Mod works fine and UT2004 runs excellently).
[QUOTE=benjgvps;28161255]The newer netbooks with the AMD Zacate chips are really nice in terms of GPU performance. I have AMD's old Athlon Neo / Radeon HD 3200 netbook, which has okay battery life though does play a fair number my games (Barely plays TF2, somewhat able to play L4D, Garry's Mod works fine and UT2004 runs excellently).[/QUOTE]
Damn, can't wait till I get a better one. Mine's still one of the old single core Atoms, I want to say N250...
Nope, N270.
N450 is probably the most popular netbook CPU ever. I have it too and I can play minecraft with 10FPS :c00lbert:
[QUOTE=Warship;28166005]N450 is probably the most popular netbook CPU ever. I have it too and I can play minecraft with 10FPS :c00lbert:[/QUOTE]
low fps like a boss :c00lbert:
[editline]20th February 2011[/editline]
unoptimized to shit game like a boss
I hope that Minecraft will get optimized before going out of beta.....
I should have held off with buying my netbook
n280 :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Warship;28166005]N450 is probably the most popular netbook CPU ever. I have it too and I can play minecraft with 10FPS :c00lbert:[/QUOTE]
30-60 FPS on my netbook, I bet the CPU is the bottleneck (1.6 GHz Athlon Neo paired with a Radeon HD 3200).
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;28192141']I should have held off with buying my netbook
n280 :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
n270. it sucks shit too
[QUOTE=benjgvps;28193646]30-60 FPS on my netbook, I bet the CPU is the bottleneck (1.6 GHz Athlon Neo paired with a Radeon HD 3200).[/QUOTE]
Have you used optimine?
[editline]22nd February 2011[/editline]
Before I used optimine, Minecraft was unplayable on my netbook :v:
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