So I have been assigned to "research" what kind of laptop to get my little sister for Christmas. My parents have settled on a netbook; This would be great for her, as she would love something small, cute, and portable (and because we relegated her desktop to the basement). She doesn't really play many 3D-on-CD (I think I just coined a phrase :v:) games, what has me worried is that she does play flash games, and I'm concerned that a ~$300 netbook doesn't have that kind power.
As I don't have a netbook, could you guys help me out? Anybody with a netbook, what are flash games like on it? Thanks!
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"flash flash"? Oh, great.
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Depends on the OS.
Flash on Linux sucks, but if it runs Windows, no problems.
look for a broadcom video accelerator chip
I own a Asus EEEPC and it runs flash... decently, but only if you put the netbook into "super high performance mode" An netbook is the way to go for great battery life mine gets about 7-8 in power saving mode,
and 4-5 in super mode, but there's not much power to be had in netbooks. You might be better off getting her a cheap laptop because it sounds like she will be in places where it could be plugged in. That
or wait till next year when all the new netbook models come out, the new Asus is going to get a beefier GPU which should help alot.
[QUOTE=xZippy;18967815]My school laptop plays flash stuff flawlessly, but give us the specs.[/QUOTE]
One I just found; good price: [url]http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/notebooks/laptop-inspiron-10/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-inspiron-10&s=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~fasttrack_win7_anav_15~~[/url]
I think that should do it.
Well my netbook runs Quake Live at like 30fps, So flash games should be fine.
[QUOTE=Itacious;18967969]One I just found; good price: [url]http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/notebooks/laptop-inspiron-10/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-inspiron-10&s=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~fasttrack_win7_anav_15~~[/url][/QUOTE]
Looks pretty good actually. I wouldn't know about battery life on it though.
Yea, my aspire one plays them fine.
With a gb of ram you are good to go.
But to get full performance out of a netbook, I would disable everything at startup, by doing windows+msconfig, and going to the startup tab. Also, right click my computer, and go to the advanced tab, and click performance. Uncheck everything but use visual styles, and something about rounded font edges. It will look almost exactly the same but it will make it a lot faster. Also, uninstall any preinstalled software. And then install some antivirus like avg and spybot.
My mothers laptop with 192mb of ram and a 1.2ghz processor plays youtube really well, and is really fast. That was of course after, extreme modding.
And of course, don't forget disk cleanup, ccleaner, and defraggler, or built in defregmenting.
If you follow everything I just said, you will have a really fast little computer. I want one.
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also, what may effect flash more than anything is the browser. for pete's sake. dont use internet explorer. Get firefox or google chrome.
[QUOTE=Maccabee;18976344]With a gb of ram you are good to go.
But to get full performance out of a netbook, I would disable everything at startup, by doing windows+msconfig, and going to the startup tab. Also, right click my computer, and go to the advanced tab, and click performance. Uncheck everything but use visual styles, and something about rounded font edges. It will look almost exactly the same but it will make it a lot faster. Also, uninstall any preinstalled software. And then install some antivirus like avg and spybot.
My mothers laptop with 192mb of ram and a 1.2ghz processor plays youtube really well, and is really fast. That was of course after, extreme modding.
And of course, don't forget disk cleanup, ccleaner, and defraggler, or built in defregmenting.
If you follow everything I just said, you will have a really fast little computer. I want one.
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also, what may effect flash more than anything is the browser. for pete's sake. dont use internet explorer. Get firefox or google chrome.[/QUOTE]Chrome rapes any other browser on a netbook.
[QUOTE=stone555;18976513]Chrome rapes any other browser on a netbook.[/QUOTE]
Why do you think this? Does google chrome actually do particularly better on a netbook, or is it just a lighter browser all around. Because I don't think that would be limited to netbooks.
[QUOTE=Maccabee;18976567]Why do you think this? Does google chrome actually do particularly better on a netbook, or is it just a lighter browser all around. Because I don't think that would be limited to netbooks.[/QUOTE]
Firefox gets sluggish with the limited amount of RAM. Chrome doesn't have this issue. But if you get a netbook with 2 GB RAM (or upgrade to that amount) Firefox will do great.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;18977205]Firefox gets sluggish with the limited amount of RAM. Chrome doesn't have this issue. But if you get a netbook with 2 GB RAM (or upgrade to that amount) Firefox will do great.[/QUOTE]
Really? If this is true, I'm gonna change the browser to chrome on all my older machines. Is there anything that does better then chrome that is usable?
[QUOTE=Maccabee;18978995]Really? If this is true, I'm gonna change the browser to chrome on all my older machines. Is there anything that does better then chrome that is usable?[/QUOTE]
In my experience K-Meleon does pretty good.
Truth be told, it doesn't matter at all unless you're the type that keeps your web browser running for six or seven hours at a time, especially if you're using a newer version of Firefox than 3.0
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