Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
Surfing, facebook, youtube, flash games. Playing music/syncing with ipod.
Netbook for the wife
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Stereodude
Not really a
The Youtube and Flash games part would have me nervous on an Atom.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
You're being ridiculous. Youtube is hardly HD!
IMO, a significant drawback of getting an HP is Windows 7. That is more likely to tax the Atom + 2GB platform.
Will, a number of people have recommended an MSI Wind U100/120/123 or equivalent. I think you'll find they're cheaper than the HP. If you're really worried about HDD performance, an SSD is a better bet than a 7200rpm drive, especially for booting.
IMO, a significant drawback of getting an HP is Windows 7. That is more likely to tax the Atom + 2GB platform.
Will, a number of people have recommended an MSI Wind U100/120/123 or equivalent. I think you'll find they're cheaper than the HP. If you're really worried about HDD performance, an SSD is a better bet than a 7200rpm drive, especially for booting.
Stereodude
Not really a
Uh... Youtube has both 720p and 1080p HD, as well as their more demanding HQ streams. However, if you want to have a processor on par with a 1gHz Pentium 3 feel free to keep buying Atom based systems. :lol:
For the rest of us there's the CULV based systems. :diablo:
ddrueding
Fixture
Give me a youtube link that you feel challenges an Atom, and I'll give it a shot. Mine also plays xvid DVDs just fine.
sdbardwick
Storage is cool
sdbardwick
Storage is cool
(Edit time expired) The clip is not that demanding, as it generally lacks full-frame motion and camera pans, but it is very high quality -you can see individual bits of fuzz- and cute.
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
7 might be more taxing but I'm looking for 7 preinstalled.
The MSI wind only has the 10" screen. I was liking the larger and supposedly better screen on the HP. It was recommended by gizmodo or engadget.
And the nvidia ION is supposed to make it easier to run HD stuff and probably the windows 7 aero. This will be just a couch computer. Battery life and the screen are probably more important than anything else. As for the hard drive speed, that is just how that model comes configured. It doesn't matter to me and maybe eventually I'll put an SSD in there but I want one for my own computer first!
ddrueding
Fixture
Yup, that'll slideshow it. Though, to be fair, it also takes 10%+ of my 4Ghz i7 and that is way higher than the resolution of the screen. It does manage the 720p with about 85% CPU utilization and 2 instances of skipping.
Stereodude
Not really a
I don't see a 1080p option on this PC...
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
ddrueding
Fixture
I don't see a 1080p option on this PC...
If you click the "HD" button in the bottom-right, it toggles between 720p and 1080p.
sdbardwick
Storage is cool
They might have pulled it; there used to be a radio button menu attached to the HD button that let you select 720p or 1080p. Now it looks like you only get SD and HD 720p.I don't see a 1080p option on this PC...
Stereodude
Not really a
I'd probably go with the dual core option at Fry's.
Adcadet
Storage Freak
FYI, my wife still loves her Acer from last Christmas and uses it nearly every day.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Big problem with HP Netbooks: The batteries are abysmal. I'm talking 90 minutes of battery life, here, on something with an Atom CPU.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
We've had a few HP 2140's with the bottom end 4 cell battery, and regularly get 4hrs on them in general usage, even running Win7?
Not disputing the 90min claim, especially if you're running them at 100% cpu constantly (doing RAW photo conversion and the like), but we don't see that with normal regular use?
Admittedly, we haven't seen the latest batch, but talking with our HP rep, he assures us battery time has been improved with the new models, but I suspect that's due to them having a 6 cell battery by default...
Fushigi
Storage Is My Life
For me I want something like the form-factor of the Sony Z series but they are rather pricey ($2500+ as I'd configure it). Too expensive and not likely to get cheap anytime soon. So I'll wait. After all, I did say 'want' and not 'need'.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
The HP2140 uses 11V batteries, so the cells are clustered in groups of three. Your examples have either a 3-cell or 6-cell battery.
I'm inclined to call bull***t on the 4-hour estimate, unless the screen backlight was off most of the time. BTW, the Atom doesn't use a lot of power even at 100% - it's probably still less than the LCD display and backlight.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
HP Mini 1000, 90 minutes is what my users are telling me. I have four samples. One says 60 minutes, one says "maybe a couple hours." The screens don't seem unusually bright and the HP netbook doesn't have any distinguishing characteristics besides asstacular battery life.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Admittedly, yes, at least 50% of the time...
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
I just did a test on a HP2140 with a 3cell battery. (Sorry I thought it was a 4cell).
Win7 Enterprise, MS Forefront security. 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD.
Power mode set to max performance, with monitor set to not sleep and at max brightness.
Running Prime95 (Torture test set to blend), and running constant ping to a server (to keep the WLAN adapter working), run time was just under 2hrs.
Win7 Enterprise, MS Forefront security. 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD.
Power mode set to max performance, with monitor set to not sleep and at max brightness.
Running Prime95 (Torture test set to blend), and running constant ping to a server (to keep the WLAN adapter working), run time was just under 2hrs.
ddrueding
Fixture
That is a pretty through test...I'll need to put some machines through it and see what I get.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
Based on Chewy's test, sounds like your users have problem batteries or charging circuits. OTOH, the Acer 3-cell we have here wouldn't make it to 2 hours if I did what Chewy did. This review got 1:56 from the HP Mini 1000 running 'Battery Eater'.
I didn't think there was any significant internal difference between the consumer and business netbooks, but the wireless adapter looks like a possible culprit.
Also, I imagine the Mini 1000 only has 1GB RAM. I suppose it's vaguely possible that the disk isn't powering down?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
These machines have 2GB. I upgraded them myself.
Also, in what can only be a facepalm moment, the way these things came into that client's office has absolutely everything to do with the fact that HP makes them available with a pink chassis.
Also, in what can only be a facepalm moment, the way these things came into that client's office has absolutely everything to do with the fact that HP makes them available with a pink chassis.
ddrueding
Fixture
Dell also has a pink chassis. I have one on my desk right now
Is it pink in the inside and on the outside? What caused that?
There's a (crude) joke in there somewhere...
Adcadet
Storage Freak
My wife really wanted a pink netbook. It fits her style.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Does anyone know of one that comes in green?
Fushigi
Storage Is My Life
Dell Mini 10s have a green option. I'm sure there are others.
Fushigi
Storage Is My Life
And then there's this option.
ddrueding
Fixture
I sprayed my leg with Krylon once in 1968 and the color did not come off until 1969.
Must have been a hell of a new years eve party
Must have been a hell of a new years eve party
There was a painting mishap around autumn, maybe October. It only seemed like forever. The skin had to regrow before the natural color was restored. :colors:
Does the 1810T still exist? I was thinking about getting one for a one-time use.
Stereodude
Not really a
Not entirely sure. Most of them seem to have disappeared. Frankly, if it was a one time use, I'd get the AS1410 with the SU2300. It's $200 cheaper and you're not likely to miss the extra L2 cache or the 100MHz.