Netbooks?

[VirtualSmitty]

Originally Posted by hotreds

I have an Netbook that I'm not happy with at all. It is very, very, slow, even after I added 1 Gig of RAM(Now has 2 GIGs RAM) It has an Atom Processor- that is supposedly the problem. I only use this for surfing the net and emails when traveling, so I can't really justify getting something better. I LOVE the size, however. If they ever make a fast netbook, I might be really tempted.

And all this after I tweaked it for the fastest possible performance. Still slower than molasses in wintertime!

Prob your OS slowing it down. I've seen plenty of atom netbooks fly when tweaked properly. I installed jolicloud on a friends asus 1005 and it gets a 13 second boot. Even my old asus 700 running the celeron processor gets a 26 second boot with ubuntu.

If you can wait until this summer I would.

Netbooks are already dead, believe it or not, smartbooks are coming now. Same price, more power.

[hotreds]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

Prob your OS slowing it down. I've seen plenty of atom netbooks fly when tweaked properly. I installed jolicloud on a friends asus 1005 and it gets a 13 second boot. Even my old asus 700 running the celeron processor gets a 26 second boot with ubuntu.

Not so much the boot- it's the file swapping- that hard drive light goes on and stays on for a considerable length of time when I'm going from one email to another, opening a new web page, etc. etc. It uses Windows XP- it's an Asus EEE PC. It was worse with 1 GB RAM, but 2 has not helped that much- and one would think that 2 Gig RAM would really be enough to have a fast machine and not need the hard drive file swap so much!