Ok, so I am starting online school soon, and I want to get a netbook for it. The main reason I want a netbook is because they are cheaper, and I don't plan on gaming on it. I don't want to go out and get a bad one though, which is why I decided to make this thread. As for pricing, is $200-$300 good? Also, would it be able to handle Photoshop and Premiere and After Effects good, or would I just be better off leaving that to the desktop? Thanks!
A netbook handling After Effects?
Yeah, good luck with that.
Netbooks have a small as fuck resolution and terrible processors.
You'd be better off going full price and buy a nice laptop.
Netbooks suck with Premiere, trust me.
It took hours to make videos on my old HP Mini 311 because it took 30 minutes every time I needed to render.
I would not recommend a netbook, those tend to be too small to be useful.
I've heard good things about Thinkpads. When I did see one, they are extremely lightweight and from what I guessed, sturdy.
Netbooks have too low spec and too small screens to be remotely useful for anything like Premiere or After Effects. It'll take ages to render, there'll be too many windows for the tiny screen and it burn your leg during use.
Go with a notebook. I recommend these brands... HP, Dell, and Apple.
[QUOTE=Baugher117;32094530]Go with a notebook. I recommend these brands... HP, Dell, and Apple.[/QUOTE]
how about none of those
Get an asus.
[QUOTE=Baugher117;32094530]Go with a notebook. I recommend these brands... HP, Dell, and Apple.[/QUOTE]
Worst advice 2011 candidate
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;32096105]Worst advice 2011 candidate[/QUOTE]
How is it bad advice?
HP has excellent powerful, cheap laptops!
Dell has nice cheap laptops for students and that is what his purpose is for a new laptop.
And Apple for simply for the fact of you want a nice, powerful, long lasting laptop.
HP - High temperatures and huge fail rate.
Dell - Idunno.
Apple - Fucking pricey.
[QUOTE=Baugher117;32096191]How is it bad advice?
HP has excellent powerful, cheap laptops!
Dell has nice cheap laptops for students and that is what his purpose is for a new laptop.
And Apple for simply for the fact of you want a nice, powerful, long lasting laptop.[/QUOTE]
First off, HP, the quality of the laptops is just bad, their customer support is bad, and they've stopped creating laptops for the customer market.
The same goes for Dell except their support is better and they are not stopping.
And i am gonna leave Apple out of this.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;32096353]HP - High temperatures and huge fail rate.
Dell - Idunno.
Apple - Fucking pricey.[/QUOTE]
HP- Since when do powerful computer don't get hot? Yes because alot of people out there don't know how to treat a computer and china has been making OUR designed computers. We need to bring our businesses back here to America where it belongs...
Dell- ??
Apple- I agree.
[editline]3rd September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Kialtia;32096360]First off, HP, the quality of the laptops is just bad, their customer support is bad, and they've stopped creating laptops for the customer market.
The same goes for Dell except their support is better and they are not stopping.
And i am gonna leave Apple out of this.[/QUOTE]
HP- Some models, In some areas, True.
Dell- Agreed, and Agreed.
Apple- ??
[QUOTE=Baugher117;32096191]How is it bad advice?
HP has excellent powerful, cheap laptops!
Dell has nice cheap laptops for students and that is what his purpose is for a new laptop.
And Apple for simply for the fact of you want a nice, powerful, long lasting laptop.[/QUOTE]
HP laptops are cheap. Too cheap. They cheap out on cost where cost shouldn't be cheaped out on. AKA Cooling.
As for Apple, that's $700 out of his price range for a laptop, probably $1200 out for something that can actually do what he wants. Besides, Apple is in the flat middle for laptop failure rates, not the best like some believe.
And Dell? They have crappy reliability and you can get better for the same price if you do ASUS or similar.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;32096511]HP laptops are cheap. Too cheap. They cheap out on cost where cost shouldn't be cheaped out on. AKA Cooling.
As for Apple, that's $700 out of his price range for a laptop, probably $1200 out for something that can actually do what he wants. Besides, Apple is in the flat middle for laptop failure rates, not the best like some believe.
And Dell? They have crappy reliability and you can get better for the same price if you do ASUS or similar.[/QUOTE] Yes but he hopefully has realized by now a $200-300 laptop won't be able to handle Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects as good as a $500- $ 2,000 laptop computer.
It sounded to me like that if he could not use them then he would just do them on his desktop. also I have 6 dell computers and they have ok build quality but are really expensive for what they are. I only have a asus netbook but it was cheap and still sturdy. I love my netbook and I think it would be great if you only need to do general computer things but will not have the power for much else.
[QUOTE=Baugher117;32096607]Yes but he hopefully has realized by now a $200-300 laptop won't be able to handle Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects as good as a $500- $ 2,000 laptop computer.[/QUOTE]
Probably, but not from your posts.
Ok, I apologize for asking if it could run those programs. I am not really as savvy on comptuers as most of you, so I didn't know. I will leave them for my desktop. Asus seems to be what brand I might go with. Anymore suggestions? Thanks once again!
Look for a netbook with one of the AMD E350 chipsets, they're decently powerful and don't consume a lot of power. Another thing to look for is a screen resolution of 1336x768, since a lot of cheaper netbooks have 1024x600, which will cause some windows to be cut off at the bottom.
One recent netbook that really has caught my attention is the [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246103"]Thinkpad X120E[/URL], Thinkpads tend to be durable, have great keyboards and include the awesome trackpoint nub.
[URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157883"]
HP's DM1[/URL] is also a nice little computer, I tried one out in Best Buy a couple of weeks ago and thought it was pretty nice.
[QUOTE=Baugher117;32096421]We need to bring our businesses back here to America where it belongs...[/QUOTE]
Get out, you guys gave up on technology, you don't get a second chance.
Ok, so my aunt is going to take me netbook shopping at best buy early next week. What are the good brands to look out for?
[QUOTE=nikomo;32098891]Get out, you guys gave up on technology, you don't get a second chance.[/QUOTE]
Good ole NAFTA, it fucked us all. Top it off with a bit of Obama and you have a disaster of monumental proportions.
[QUOTE=MirageKnight;32105865]Ok, so my aunt is going to take me netbook shopping at best buy early next week. What are the good brands to look out for?[/QUOTE]
HNNG. Worst Buy, really?
Get your stuff from [url]www.newegg.com[/url] so you don't get raped by 60% brick&mortar markup.
And you did read that Netbooks have terrible CPUs and GPUs right? Any netbook isn't going to be able to run the programs you listed at any sort of bearable speed. Most use those awful Intel Atom CPUs, which are about half as fast as a Pentium M at the same clock speed. They also use terrible Intel GMA IGPs most of the time, which fail at pretty much everything.
[QUOTE=bohb;32106369]Good ole NAFTA, it fucked us all. Top it off with a bit of Obama and you have a disaster of monumental proportions.
HNNG. Worst Buy, really?
Get your stuff from [url]www.newegg.com[/url] so you don't get raped by 60% brick&mortar markup.
And you did read that Netbooks have terrible CPUs and GPUs right? Any netbook isn't going to be able to run the programs you listed at any sort of bearable speed. Most use those awful Intel Atom CPUs, which are about half as fast as a Pentium M at the same clock speed. They also use terrible Intel GMA IGPs most of the time, which fail at pretty much everything.[/QUOTE]
Were not going to order online, and if you would of read the thread you would of seen that in the OP I said I would just use my desktop for it, and later on in the thread I said forget I mentioned the programs.
If you already have a desktop and are just taking online classes, I don't see the need to waste money on a Netbook, unless you also take regular classes.
[QUOTE=bohb;32107416]If you already have a desktop and are just taking online classes, I don't see the need to waste money on a Netbook, unless you also take regular classes.[/QUOTE]
My desktop is shitty and the internet keeps going out. Never had that problem on my old laptop which crapped out on me a few weeks ago.
[QUOTE=nikomo;32098891]Get out, you guys gave up on technology, you don't get a second chance.[/QUOTE] WE?! OUR COMPANIES DID IT!!! We couldn't do a damn thing about it!!
[QUOTE=bohb;32106369]Good ole NAFTA, it fucked us all. Top it off with a bit of Obama and you have a disaster of monumental proportions.
HNNG. Worst Buy, really?
Get your stuff from [url]www.newegg.com[/url] so you don't get raped by 60% brick&mortar markup.
And you did read that Netbooks have terrible CPUs and GPUs right? Any netbook isn't going to be able to run the programs you listed at any sort of bearable speed. Most use those awful Intel Atom CPUs, which are about half as fast as a Pentium M at the same clock speed. They also use terrible Intel GMA IGPs most of the time, which fail at pretty much everything.[/QUOTE]
There's nothing wrong with best buy. I went there weeks ago to help my grandmother shop for a new laptop and the selection of netbooks was fairly good. The only thing that can be silly is that they're running some software on it that gives you the specs on the screen and don't let you browse around, though considering the type of people that waltz into Best Buy, that's not exactly a bad thing. I think they had the HP DM1 there (The one with the AMD E350 chip) and it seemed like it had nice specs.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;32116513]There's nothing wrong with best buy. I went there weeks ago to help my grandmother shop for a new laptop and the selection of netbooks was fairly good. The only thing that can be silly is that they're running some software on it that gives you the specs on the screen and don't let you browse around, though considering the type of people that waltz into Best Buy, that's not exactly a bad thing. I think they had the HP DM1 there (The one with the AMD E350 chip) and it seemed like it had nice specs.[/QUOTE]
The problem is you're paying 40-60% more at a brick and mortar store like Best Buy than you would be online. The only justification I can think of to spend more money for the same thing is if you need it on the spot, no questions asked for some mission critical project.
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