Posted By: Pace | Jan 14th @ 11:12 AM
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Pace
Pace
In The Mix...
Hi Niners!

I have a key company meeting tomorrow off site. We have been working hard on our reports and presentations for taking the company forward. So I get in work this morning early and finish everything off nicely for lunch time. I get out my xps 1330 so I can take my files with me and have something to keep myself busy with as were in a hotel for a couple of days. I fire it up, log in and bang. Graphics card has completely gone. Blown up somehow by the demons of fate. Im quickly searching online for a replacement card I can rush and get and I learn that the card is actually soldered into the board. Disaster. Ive worked so hard and now I cant show any of my points on topics I have to cover and im stuck with nothing to do. Ive heard of these netbooks and decide to just go for it, £300 Samsung NC10. Im a touch typist and ive seen the mini dells and the keyboard is just unworkable for me.

So I get this thing back and its setup with almost no bloatware in 10 minutes. I copy all my files over and start to install office. Im thinking damn I should have bought the ram stick which is 2g but I diddnt realise you could do that until I got it back to the office. Im shocked. Office is installed lightning fast on the 160 gb hard drive and I really mean fast.

The office gets locked up and I sitll have loads to do. I get home, bang its on the wireless no problem, straight on the vpn, straight on my dev workstation and I start to do the stuff I needed to finish in sql and vs. Ok the 10.1" means you have to make some windows that little bit smaller (like immediate etc) but its flying. No lag at all.

I cant believe this. Im dying to find someway to fault it but I cant.

Saved by modern cheap computing and totally shocked by the performance and build feel. These are great days : )

Thanks!
Pace
PaoloM
PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
Yup. These little things are awesome, and wait until you put Win7 on them Smiley

I love my little AAO!
Dr Herbie
Dr Herbie
Horses for courses
24th Jan is the date that the public beta downloads gets limited.  If you've got a registration key (should have got one when you downloaded) you're good up to August sometime.  Without registration it's a 30 day limit.

Herbie
leeappdalecom
leeappdalecom
.nettter
See I've been looking at a Dell mini 9, but I just can't find a use for a netbook.

The only thing I can think of is to take abroad but if I really need a laptop abroad I might as well take my MacBook.
La Bomba
La Bomba
Boing!
when you want to take a laptop in the backyard or in the loo, places where you wouldn't want to take your MacBook, you can take the netbook anywhere and you don't really care what happens to it, it's durable, gets a few scratches...who cares?

Gets stolen...easily replaceable.
leeappdalecom
leeappdalecom
.nettter
He he see this is where I don't get it.

If I want to use my internet in my loo I will just use my iPod Touch or Blackberry same as if I'm abroad and need to use the internet.  If I need to do something more then all my programs and files are on my main laptop.

I want to buy one but I just can't find a justifiable use case  .
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