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pullmyfoot · April 29th, 2009, 04:14 AM

Well these things, if you have not been living under a rock, have been taking the computing world by storm recently. I know there are lots of polls on tech websites like this, but I thought it would be interesting to see what the opinions are like here

I got a nice Acer netbook a month ago, based on the older Atom/945G chipset. I use it once in awhile, to school sometimes, and it works ok for me mainly because of the weight. However I didnt really use it much til this week. Anyways, I brought it on a short 3 day trip with the intention of getting some of my schoolwork done. Its smack in the middle of term for me you see, and the reason for the trip was the passing of my maternial grandmother

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With that done, I completely hate the darn things now. My efficiency as of compared to using my regular desktop was about 10%. I got about an introduction for an essay done before I gave up and half a page of notes before I gave up on that too. In the end, the only thing it was good for was the built-in games (hearts and pinball

) and internet surfing at the hotel and airport.

I hate the tiny screen, for one, but that didnt bother me as much as the minuture keyboard and touchpad which caused me to mistype or accidently press wrong buttons exactly 26.416471245875% of the time. The touchpad included the side scrolling option, whatever its called (if you drag your finger on the right and bottom it scrols your document), and because of its small size kept causing me to brush it and lose the position I was at in my word document. Furthermore, it didnt help that the pageup and down bottuns were BELOW the arrow keys. Ugh.

Opinions? Anyone with a less horrible netbook/netbook keyboard arrangement?

I really dont care for the hardware, I'm completely happy with the Atom (though a little more would be nice, I'm looking at the Samsung/AMD mini laptop for that). What would be completely perfect would be if they made the darn thing 1" bigger. Perfect. Right now its like 9". Man. I'm seriously considering of selling this soon and getting the 13" (I think 13") Samsung/AMD lowpower CPU (forgot what its called, but from what I see its 50% faster than the Atom

) or maybe a nice 13" Macbook

I'm done with my ramble

If anyone bothered to read through it I applaud you (and call you a big fat geek).

April 29th, 2009, 04:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
pullmyfoot Super Duper Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Singapore Posts: 4,178	Netbooks. Love em? Or hate em Well these things, if you have not been living under a rock, have been taking the computing world by storm recently. I know there are lots of polls on tech websites like this, but I thought it would be interesting to see what the opinions are like here I got a nice Acer netbook a month ago, based on the older Atom/945G chipset. I use it once in awhile, to school sometimes, and it works ok for me mainly because of the weight. However I didnt really use it much til this week. Anyways, I brought it on a short 3 day trip with the intention of getting some of my schoolwork done. Its smack in the middle of term for me you see, and the reason for the trip was the passing of my maternial grandmother . With that done, I completely hate the darn things now. My efficiency as of compared to using my regular desktop was about 10%. I got about an introduction for an essay done before I gave up and half a page of notes before I gave up on that too. In the end, the only thing it was good for was the built-in games (hearts and pinball ) and internet surfing at the hotel and airport. I hate the tiny screen, for one, but that didnt bother me as much as the minuture keyboard and touchpad which caused me to mistype or accidently press wrong buttons exactly 26.416471245875% of the time. The touchpad included the side scrolling option, whatever its called (if you drag your finger on the right and bottom it scrols your document), and because of its small size kept causing me to brush it and lose the position I was at in my word document. Furthermore, it didnt help that the pageup and down bottuns were BELOW the arrow keys. Ugh. Opinions? Anyone with a less horrible netbook/netbook keyboard arrangement? I really dont care for the hardware, I'm completely happy with the Atom (though a little more would be nice, I'm looking at the Samsung/AMD mini laptop for that). What would be completely perfect would be if they made the darn thing 1" bigger. Perfect. Right now its like 9". Man. I'm seriously considering of selling this soon and getting the 13" (I think 13") Samsung/AMD lowpower CPU (forgot what its called, but from what I see its 50% faster than the Atom ) or maybe a nice 13" Macbook I'm done with my ramble If anyone bothered to read through it I applaud you (and call you a big fat geek). __________________ PII 720BE X3 @ 3.7Ghz \| Gigabyte 790GX \| HD4850 \| 4gigs OCZ Reper \| WDC 640gb Black Athlon II 250 X2 @ 3.80Ghz \| Gigabyte 770 \| HD4670 \| 4 gigs OCZ Reper Last edited by pullmyfoot : April 29th, 2009 at 11:01 AM.