07-28-2009, 03:38 PM
Quote:Anyone have a netbook? Other than gaming what are the other disadvantages?
Well I'm typing this right now on one, we have an evaluation one from HP.
I've been looking it for all of about 3 minutes now. I don't like the keyboard. My hands are a bit too big for it. But I can type reasonably well on it. Just not a fan.
The widescreen format but small screen is not really great for web browsing either, as you need to do a lot of vertical scrolling on a 1024 x 576 resolution and there is no scroll wheel, I'm not a fan of grabbing the bars and dragging with a touch pad. Though compared to a cell phone it's a step up. I'd suggest getting used to the F11 key in Firefox. :)
It's light, it seems solid on the construction.
This thing is running full blown XP SP3, don't know if that was what it came with or installed by IT on it.
Battery seems to charge fairly quickly. It was at 18% charge just a few minutes ago is now at 25%. I'm not sure how long it will run on that. I'm not getting a time estimate till out of power when I take it off wall power.
If you have an external DVD drive (killing some of the portability aspect of it) it seems it'd be decent for video playback.
It can drive an external monitor via a VGA output fairly well. I plugged it into my 19in flatpanel and it chugged right along. Claims it can drive up 2048 x 1530 on the external.
Has an OK built in speaker. Built in web cam as well. Easy to get to headpone jack. 3 USB ports on the sides. Card reader and a standard ethernet port on the side as well. No prots on the back.
For a couple hundred bucks as an e-mail reader/chat/web broswers it's not bad. 2GB of ram, 160 GB HDD, 1.6GHz N270 Atom processor. Office runs fine on it, I bet if you could fiddle the screen resolution and use an external mouse D2 would play just fine on it too.:)
The external power brick is fairly small as well.
Screen has good brightness and good viewing angles as well.
The lid doesn't have a latch, just some pressure springs to keep it closed.
Seems functional though.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.