Laptop or Netbook?

[mondeo]

I'm trying to decide between a nettop or a lapbook, myself.

I may just go with an abacus.

Pretty sure you need decent amounts of power for Abaqus.

</geek>

 

[riverc0il]

I can't see the point of netbooks. Maybe for a small portion of the population that needs to be connected all the time any place they go. But then again their are smart phones for that sort of thing. So perhaps someone that hates using smart phones but needs the constant plugged in factor. Otherwise, it costs so little to have a full featured laptop for a few extra pounds. I think the extra weight is worth it.

Tough I dig how many Netbooks comes with Linux :lol: Though good luck running all your internet streaming video with Linux.... I still have issues and personally can't wait to see how much Windows 7 has improved on Vista. If Windows wasn't such a dog on my PC, I probably would have switched back by now.

 

[mondeo]

I can't see the point of netbooks. Maybe for a small portion of the population that needs to be connected all the time any place they go. But then again their are smart phones for that sort of thing. So perhaps someone that hates using smart phones but needs the constant plugged in factor. Otherwise, it costs so little to have a full featured laptop for a few extra pounds. I think the extra weight is worth it.

Tough I dig how many Netbooks comes with Linux :lol: Though good luck running all your internet streaming video with Linux.... I still have issues and personally can't wait to see how much Windows 7 has improved on Vista. If Windows wasn't such a dog on my PC, I probably would have switched back by now.

Try high quality video with netbooks at all, no matter the OS. No hardware video decode.

 

[RootDKJ]

I just got mrs root a HP DV2 series laptop. It weighs under 4 lbs. As I was installing her software and transferring files over, I thought that it is a decent size for me for web, email....

not for working on schematics or huge spreadsheets though

 

[severine]

Try high quality video with netbooks at all, no matter the OS. No hardware video decode.

I think you just made his decision for him. Can't be without video after all.

 

[Geoff]

I personally couldn't live without a 1920x1200 WUXGA display. That puts me way out of the netbook category.

 

[powhunter]

Jeff a friend of mine is an IT guy at espn....he gets their old laptops and refurbishes them...I just got a T-61 thinkpad from him last week for 500 after I spilled a 20 oz DD coffee on my old one....Hes got a few left


steveo

 

[o3jeff]

Jeff a friend of mine is an IT guy at espn....he gets their old laptops and refurbishes them...I just got a T-61 thinkpad from him last week for 500 after I spilled a 20 oz DD coffee on my old one....Hes got a few left


steveo

Any chance of it being Erin Andrews with her personal pics left on it?

 

[ERJ-145CA]

I'm typing this on an Acer Aspire One netbook with a 160GB HDD not the small "solid state drive", it goes for about $299 through Amazon.com. The reason I went with the netbook was it's light weight because I travel all the time for my job and I can just stick it right into my overnight bag and not have to have a separate laptop bag. I hate having more than two bags (my flight case is my second bag).

The typing took a little getting used to but after a few days I was able to type on this just as well as a desktop. Also I have a few DVD's on this computer in full quality (they are not compressed or anything) and they look just as good as they do on my standard def tv's (I don't have a Hi Def TV to compare it with yet). I just ripped them to my desktop and transerred them with a USB drive and run the DVD's with Power DVD. I also use it to play emulated videogames and it does a good job with that.

This netbook is pretty much my primary computer now, I rarely turn on my desktop anymore. So far I can say that I like this netbook a lot and haven't had any problems with it. BTW it is running XP home.

 

[WJenness]

Jeff a friend of mine is an IT guy at espn....he gets their old laptops and refurbishes them...I just got a T-61 thinkpad from him last week for 500 after I spilled a 20 oz DD coffee on my old one....Hes got a few left


steveo

If he has any X series TPs, I could be interested. Would you ask him for me?

I had an X61s at my old job and loved it...

-w

 

[powhunter]

all he has is the t-61s

steveo

 

[mondeo]

all he has is the t-61s

steveo

<geek>
I used to bullseye womprats in those back home, they're not much more than two meters.

Oh wait, those were T-16s.
</geek>

 

[Edd]

I've had Vista Home Premium for 3 years on my 32-bit desktop. Problems = zero.

 

[o3jeff]

Still haven't decided on what to get yet.

For all you Macbook people, are they worth the $1k for general computing? internet, email, pictures, etc. Sometimes I will also need to access a remote server work, can that be done easily with this?

 

[mondeo]

For all you Macbook people, are they worth the $1k for general computing? internet, email, pictures, etc. Sometimes I will also need to access a remote server work, can that be done easily with this?

Do you think they'll admit they paid too much?

 

[MR. evil]

Still haven't decided on what to get yet.

For all you Macbook people, are they worth the $1k for general computing? internet, email, pictures, etc. Sometimes I will also need to access a remote server work, can that be done easily with this?

It may be more challenging using a MacBook to get remote access to your office network. You would probably have to run Parrallels or Bootcamp. These are programs that allow you to run windows as a program with-in the Mac OS. Or you could just install windows as the OS, but that would negate getting a Mac. The upside to a Mac is the OS

 

[mondeo]

The upside to a Mac is the OS

...for some people.

To others, it's a downside.

 

[dmc]

...for some people.

To others, it's a downside.

'splain?

I love the MAC OS... It's Unix...

Snow Leopard is actually really nice...

Windows just sucks...

 

[Glenn]

I LOL'd when I saw this posted on another forum:

 

[severine]

I had an iBook years ago. LOVED it for video and photo editing. MS Office worked pretty much the same on it. More stable than Windows. Our school (UCONN) had a student discount deal with them. I still have it but the battery is useless--must stay plugged in. I let the kids use it now. It's 6 years old.

The school where my SIL teaches only uses Macs because they had too many virus/worm issues when they were on PCs. Much easier on them now.

Don't knock it til you try it.