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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Colonol Dekker on July 08, 2009, 03:49:33 pm
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For those of you that didn't attend a few HLP Londons ago (FOR SHAME!) you failed to witness one of my favourite HLP moments to date. Amidst the boozing bankers and commuters of my fair capital, an elite few were crammed into a corner area perving over Galemps netbook ogling <CLASSIFIED TO SAVE MY NECK FROM GALEMPS DISCIPLINE MACHETE>. I realised at that point, wait a sec.... All this time i spend in the pub, i could be modelling and fredding....
So i'm on the look for a netbook that wioll run>
Photoshop
MAx 932 bit - (no rendering, just construction)
TS 2,3,4,5,6,7 (I love TS, so sue me)
Lithunwrap, (No brainer, my phone can run Lithunwrap)
Fred - (Don't worry, i'll try SCP over a retail install, no mediavp's for obvious reasons :no: (Using my own CD's converted to an Image, it's all legal, read the blarb)
and PCS2 of course ;)
Heres my first choice http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/samsung-nc10.aspx (http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/samsung-nc10.aspx)
My budget ideally will be under 350 UK dollars......or pounds. :nervous:
Galemps Advent (IIRC) was SUH-WEEEEEEET. Tiny mouse, so cute...
Opinons etc?
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I'd wait a while, I read on AnandTech that netbooks may be coming out with dedicated graphics cards. I'd suggest maybe an MSI Wind or an Asus EEE PC.
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Appreciated :yes:
But i'm still finding reasons to go for the NC10
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39029450,49297248-8,00.htm
5+ hours :jaw: what a winner :nod:
EDIT>>
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39029450,49297248-10,00.htm
I'm tempted to put it off and add a bit more cash to the fund now.....
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My Eee PC 904HA boasts a theoretic 5.9h battery life (in practice over 4h).
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How's it handle the above prgs?
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The 1000HA is a good choice, I have one and it's a superb PC.
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How's it handle the above prgs?
Don't have / haven't used those programs, so no idea. But the general specs are
- Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz
- 1GB DDR2
- Intel UMA GPU
- 160 GB HDD.
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How does the UMA thingy handle? The specs are good :nod:
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Being a thingy that uses RAM, not that well. But with such portability and battery life, I don't care that much. FSO (RC3, no MediaVPs) was a tad bit twitchy but still quite playable.
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Cool, i'll probably look into all these makes and models.. For now i'll take CC's advice and bide my time, Wait for one of those holo projector things that dead pilot in the FS2 intro had... with Windows 7 ;)
Srsly though, ta. any other feedback on my initial choice would be welcome too. :pimp: :yes:
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Also, when you get one I'd order an extra gigabyte or two of RAM, bring it up to 3GB.
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Payday joy has won me over. I'm getting the NC10 after work. . :happy dance:
9 hour battery life. Need I say more.
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Did you get a win7 ticket? Make sure you get some RAM.
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I'm sure it's vista loaded. It's all I need. Although I will probably push for some 7 info.
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I'm sure it's vista loaded.
I'd still bet on XP.
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No chance. . . I've been conditioned. I could never go back now :sigh:
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doing anything serious 3D related on a netbook is a big no-no. get either a laptop with 4 gigs of ram, 2 ghz proc (dual core preferred) and a dedicated gpu.
i got mine for less than 500 quid... Asus Aspire 5530G, runs everything fine. only downside? HOT HOT HOTHOTHOTHOTHOT!!!111 after having it in my lap for 2 hours...
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only downside? HOT HOT HOTHOTHOTHOTHOT!!!111
Same here with my MTC laptop "Ruoska". But you can turn it into an advantage. It'll help you keep your aparment warm in the winter. I also usually keep my coffee cup right next to the exhaust holes so that the coffee stays hot. I guess it would also work with tea.
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This is a mobile solution. To allow me to do the basic graft on the move. Fun like renders is for my Q6600 at home :p
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same with my lappy.
@lobo, yeah. i once left a porcelain cup behind while it was rendering something (the main rig broke down, hd fail or something), went to pick it up, ended up with a burn on the fingah
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I recommend something more mainstream with acer or asus. They're cheap and good manufacturers of netbooks. I prefer buying asus netbooks, but the second generation acer aspire ones are really good too.
I got myself the 900ha eeepc from asus with a 4 cell battery (6 cell is much nicer, but 4.5 hours of battery time on 4 cell for me is just fine enough). Same thing as the 901 pretty much except for different wlan card and has a full sized laptop hard drive which i much prefer to the low quality and sometimes reman flash drives in use on the eeepcs with solid state drives that die in either 1 or 6 months time.
Get a netbook with a real hard drive if you don't want to worry about an internal flash drive dying especially if it's of low quality.
Personally my sandisk and pny 4gb usb thumb drives are magnitudes of higher quality and reliability than the solid state drive that was inside my first netbook the eeepc 901 (it's 16gb internal flash drive died in a month). Now you see why i wanted a netbook with an actual hard drive (plus the hard drive is easily replaceable).
As far as what i do with my netbook. I do almost absolutely everything that i do on here compared to my core 2 duo laptop. The integrated intel graphics on todays netbooks are more capable than people give them credit for. I can run warcraft 3 just fine, openarena on medium settings, and vanilla fs2 runs ok too. I usually play old games anyway so there's no beef here with me. The 1.6ghz nano processor is very good, close to the speed of a pentium 4 but not quite. The processor is also hyperthreaded and overclockable, some people overclock there netbooks to 2ghz or a little past sometimes (helps the integrated graphics especially).
I also shoved 2gb of memory in this sucker and plopped mepis 8.0 on here and do my usual 20+ tabs in firefox and instant messaging at the same time with pidgin and gyachi. This thing can also play movies of dvd quality very good. You can play hi def on here, but holy crap do you lose frames (so far the only thing this netbook isn't good at all).
This computer is small, lightweight, great battery life, comes with a little netbook padded case that you put the netbook into when you toss it into your backpack, it's fast enough, and can be an openarena server for 8 others or more in lan parties.
Great buy. Also netbooks famously come with a webcam, microphone, line out, mic in, 3 usbs, vga out, sd card reader, a/b/g wifi, and gigabit ethernet.
Also, the keyboard being small, i don't care, i have relatively small hands and keyboard without using my index fingers. I have typed up many 6 page essays my past college semester with this thing in openoffice just great.
It's a big benefit because going on a trip i just put this thing in my backpack and don't need anything crazy like a specialized laptop bag that bigger laptops famously need. I go on a trip of any kind and i have awesomely portable computing power. Also i don't need to bypass my campuse's computer security all over the campus in any computer lab via liveusb anymore (not joking they make you change your password every 3 weeks up here, i'm not surprised i forgot what the last password of 5 i cycled through was, and campus inability to reset my account). Oh well, b4 the netbook i had non authenticated computer lab usage sessions because of not needing to login just to use the net via liveusb (live media has some great advantages).
I'm done this is as possibly as much info from experience and knowledge i have about netbooks.
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I've made my choice :)
Although my mate (whom i worked with for a very long time) refused to sell to me on the basis that it will probably be at least ten percent cheaper in a month or two. Plus i'll get a discount on top :nervous: probably............
So now i play the waiting game..
£240-50 is a fair price.