I just got back in from driving to scotland in my slippers for no particular reason.
The luls hit me on the way back when I realised I should have done an Alan Partridge and eaten loads of toblerones.
spmado
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I just got back in from driving to scotland in my slippers for no particular reason.
The luls hit me on the way back when I realised I should have done an Alan Partridge and eaten loads of toblerones.
As long as I've got a face
You've got a place to sit
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I might re-evaluate Acer's product range then. Not in need for a new notebook at the moment though.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
RASPBERRY RIPPLE
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I have never had a problem with anything (quite a few cards, MBs, and a netbook) from Asus. They have notebooks that start around the price of the Acers. I would look there first, NZB.
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
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I would get a netbook but there's no optical drive and they're too small. Up untill a couple of week ago I was seriously looking at the Macbook Air if I ever had to pick one but even they don't have a optical drive or a RJ45 socket.
A friend suggested the UX30 but after reading a review ( http://www.cnet.com.au/asus-ux30-339298634.htm ) I might look into a revision of it, hopefully they'll include a optical drive.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
Error xɐʇuʎs
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If mid- or highend range, I'd go for whatever offers the best performance for the price, possibly exempting Packard Bell.
For lowend/budget, I'd be a lot more careful. I think that's where Packard Bell and Acer, to name two examples, are cutting the most corners.
For pre-built computers, my previous experience has been something along these lines: Shuttle - great, HP/Compaq -good, Dell -good, Lenovo/IBM - good, Apple - ok, Asus - both good and shit, Acer - shit, Packard Bell - incredibly shit. And all of them are still beat by what I built myself from parts. No matter the brand, a laptop is more likely to fail, doubly so if it's a netbook, though.
Last edited by Snee; 02-06-2011 at 10:51 AM.
RASPBERRY RIPPLE
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$2000 for a laptop (list price) puts that one quite a bit outside of my comfort zone. I've been using my upgraded EEE 901 (RAM and SSD) daily for the past 2+ years, but I've owned it a bit longer. I have it set up to control my much faster basement-dwelling pc via remote desktop. The only complaint I have with it is frequent stumbling while watching videos. For browsing, writing papers, torrents, and lite picture editing (photoshop doesn't like remote desktop, so I use Snagit editor) this setup works great. Screen size is too small to play anything but the most basic of games.
We originally purchased it to take on a trip with us and found its portability to be wonderful. It is FAR better to dump vacation pics onto, and preview on the "massive" 8 inch screen than on the camera's. Microsoft's maps and a GPS puck saved us a lot of frustration on that trip, as well. The SSD in this has been great for reliability and peace of mind when it gets tossed into a backpack for class.
I download most everything, so the optical drive hasn't been much of an issue for me. I did purchase an external drive, and have used that for a couple installations. By using RD, I have everything on the PC, so if I did need to burn a disk, it wouldn't be on the netbook anyway. A 16GB thumb drive can be had for about $25-30. That would give you 3 DVDs worth of space.
All said, I have loved my netbook. It was cheap, is tough, wonderfully portable, and I've found work-arounds for its lack of brute strength.
sex a wolf in a bag
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That's genious mate.
Now go away.
spmado
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It passed some thyme, like.
I went outside for a tab in the middle of having dinner, saw the car, had my keys in my pocket and thought fuck it, why not?
I didn't plan on going to scotland, like, but I ended up on the A1 and only had two choices, north or south.
As long as I've got a face
You've got a place to sit
sex a wolf in a bag
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You'll be committing traffic cone theft next if you're not careful.It's a serious matter.
Drive to mine next time for a doobie, brother.
Last edited by Something Else; 02-06-2011 at 07:42 PM. Reason: busyedit fail
Now go away.
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