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choosing a laptop, advice please, possibly an eee.
polaris:
ive been considering one of those eee things, and have decided that i would need to add windows for my purposes.
whilst browsing i came across this by packard bell.
id appreciate anyone with any knowledge casting an eye over it to see if in some way its glaringly crap, cos i dont really know much about processors etc.
for comparison sake,
the asus 4gb 512ram is about £240 plus xp £60
the packard bell is £349 with xp and the bigger hard drive. and i think free virus software but that could be free anyway i suppose.
any other options of machines more than welcome.
its mainly gonna be used for browsing, the odd word document, emails and listening to internet radio when im away working. so mostly its just cos the internet on my phone is too limiting.
:cheers:
ahofle:
I certainly couldn't imagine surfing the web on a 800x480 screen. :dizzy:
quarterback:
--- Quote from: polaris on January 23, 2008, 06:51:58 pm ---ive been considering one of those eee things, and have decided that i would need to add windows for my purposes.
whilst browsing i came across this by packard bell.
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This is basically the cloudbook which will be released in the US on Friday. Here it's $399 and will come with gOS installed instead of XP. It will be sold at WalMart and, IMO, will be the eee's first big competition. I'm probably going to buy one instead of an eee unless something dissuades me. If you read the eee forums, the 5 biggest complaints about the cloudbook are
(1) it's ugly
(2) the eee looks better
(3) the cloudbook looks crappy
(4) my eee is soooo much better looking and
(5) The standard hard drive is going to make it so much slower than my eee... which, I might say, is also so much cooler looking than the cloudbook.
We'll see when the first Cloudbook reviews roll in.
NiN^_^NiN:
I would reccomend the EEE pc i use mine for surfring the net all over the house and the 800x480 screen isnt a problem for all the websites i got to :) you can make the screensize bigger its just 800 x 480 is the native resolution and looks the best.
The cloud book isn't worth it the eee pc looks better ;) lol joking
I don't know much about the cloud book but i would say see if you can try out an eee pc yourself and a cloudbook i know it might not help that much as they dont have XP on them as stock in the shops but it will let you see if you like the size of the keyboard.
After i installed a full xp install on my 4gb eee pc i had about 1gb left for programs and podcast etc but i just stream music and movies over the wifi and mame aswell and leave my eee pc free for programs.
The eee pc is popular cause its so small and you will take it anywhere you go but i would see what your needs are size wise so you want a small pc or do you want a normal sized laptop with a 15" screen? thats the question ;)
polaris:
ive just read something saying that the xs20 is really slow when you got to open an app for example saying it cant handle the xp. would that be down to the processor, or fact its a proper hard drive, from what everyones saying the eee is really fast, but have you upgraded to 2G of ram.
it seems to me their specs are the same but some reports claim the eee is faster.
for example ive read in the other thread that the eee boots windows in like 15 seconds, the easynote took over a minute.
what im asking is, is the asus faster and why
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