I really appreciate all the replys, very usefull information. I will make sure to vist a vendor and try out diffrent laptops, to test screen size, weight and preformance.
I will post when i have made my decision, to see what you guys think.
I really appreciate all the replys, very usefull information. I will make sure to vist a vendor and try out diffrent laptops, to test screen size, weight and preformance.
I will post when i have made my decision, to see what you guys think.
sicne you have time to do the testing, can you let us know how the overall speed feels like.
i did soem more online research as i was looking for something very portable, light and small. and i can't decied is it better to get a tablet or netbook. while some say netbooks are fine and have good baterry life other reviews scare me on the general speed. how fast are actually these CPU? some say speed is descent others that it loks sort of like an enhanced P III.
i have an old notebook with 1,2Ghz athlon, 20 GB hdd and 256MB ram. Chrunchbang works fine on it at the moment (very stable, most stuff recognised out of the box and working - i.e. volume buttons, dual screen...). ot's an ok laptop for browsing, but the porblem is
RAM can't really be increased much (max 384MB) and
most importanly - it's heavy and battery even when new can last about 2 hours at most. even in winXP . must beabout 10 year old maschine.
as a bonus the frame is cracking (too bad because i really like the screen).
i could live with most stuff, but it being heavy doesn't really make it that portable. also the battery life - 2 hours is not enough IMO...
Read the easy to understand, lots of pics Ubuntu manual.
Do i need antivirus/firewall in linux?
Full disk backup (newer kernel -> suitable for newer PC): Clonezilla
User friendly full disk backup: Rescuezilla
I'd avoid a tablet. Honestly, they are cool tech but not nearly as useful as having a keyboard. Even after months of owning a nook booting android off an sd card and my phone running android; I still can't do any legitimate typing on either of them. Touch screen typing is slow, cumbersome, and difficult to be accurate due to lack of feedback for me. Touchscreens are good as simple devices for calling/reading/consuming media/etc, but not creating or developing anything.
Very well said- I decided on a netbook myself. I bought an Acer Aspire One 722. Ubuntu runs great on it out of the box, though I was holding my breath with the wireless card and the ATI graphics card.
I wound up installing Bodhi Linux on it and could not be happier. Boots in about 25 seconds, the Enlightenment composite manager gives me sweet graphics effects, and even heavyweight applications like Firefox perform perfectly.
Enlightenment can be configured however you want; you can make your own radical desktop environment to suit your needs or stick with a stock taskbar and start button type arrangement.
Big +1 for Bodhi.
guess I should chime in here, although it is probably too late. I am writing this on my new HP Mini, N2800 and 2GB RAM. It's quicker than my Lenovo, quick to start, quick to surf, just a lot quicker than any of my other machines - almost as fast as some of my macs. Here's my config:
HP Mini 210-4000 (Customized)
Intel Atom N2800
2GB DDR3
500 GB5400 RPM Hard Drive
10.1 WSVGA LED-BL 1024x600
Webcam with Integrated Digital Mic
802.11 WLAN
Running Ubuntu 12.04
I love this machine!
Thanks to Ubuntu !I love this machine!
Ubuntu 18.04
I know it's a little late but are you serious here? I mean you have an Atom N2800 which comes with PowerVR graphics. This chip has the GMA 3650 graphics processor and there's no good driver for that on any Linux.
The best driver you can get is from the PPA with only 2D support. I have a Toshiba NB520 myself with the same specs as yours and it's slow as hell on Ubuntu. It's a little faster on Windows because of better drivers but seriously the computer is unusable on Linux.
Idk man maybe you're not telling the truth
you can get a decent laptop for 299-599 that would be good for what you need but netbooks are for the most part useless as a day to day pc a used pc is a good option i recommend geeks.com they have windows xp notebooks up to windows7 core i7 laptops and plenty more even used macs
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