Re: [Hampshire] Ebuyer Netbook Bargain

Simon Capstick wrote:
>>> There is a grumble about the 1.2 GHz VIA processor in the review, but
>>> from Windows user who wants to run Vista and play games on it for
>>> crying out loud! Aside from that it has got a decent 1280 x 768 WXGA
>>> screen resolution, 120 GB hard drive, 1GB memory. Not sure which
>>> flavour of Linux...
>>>
>> According to that link.. SLED 10.
>>
>> ... and there was me just about to order one ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> /j
>>
>>
>
> We use quite a few 1.2Ghz fanless VIA C7 CPUs in the office and they're
> not all that bad for office duties. They happily run Windows XP/Office
> 2007/IE/Anti-virus. I've run Debian/OpenOffice on them too although it
> felt slower than Windows. Any intensive task including software updates
> and they do slow to a crawl though (probably the 2.5" laptop HDs we use).
It's horses for courses, isn't it?

The grumbly reviewer wanted to pay for a Netbook and receive an
uber-laptop in return. I see the Netbooks primarily as an easily
portable machine for browsing, email and light office tasks. Anyone
expecting to run Vista or play modern games at anything like a decent
frame rate would have to be pretty daft if they thought this was the
machine to do it on.

Sean

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