Question about mini laptop

[Myothername]

My husband is buying me a netbook for Christmas (mini laptop). I am so excited. I ordered it today but it won’t be here until January. It has 1gb memory and 250 gb hard drive. I plan to use it mostly for surfing the web (something I am addicted to), maybe streaming some tv shows, watching dvds with the dvd player you hook to it, and maybe play a computer game. I am thinking of loading my Microsoft Word program on there too in case I want to do some work at times on it.
What do you use yours for? Have you had problems if you load Word and/or Excel or a computer game on there with it taking up too much memory? How do you like it?

 

[Zerosinthecloset]

My husband is buying me a netbook for Christmas (mini laptop). I am so excited. I ordered it today but it won’t be here until January. It has 1gb memory and 250 gb hard drive. I plan to use it mostly for surfing the web (something I am addicted to), maybe streaming some tv shows, watching dvds with the dvd player you hook to it, and maybe play a computer game. I am thinking of loading my Microsoft Word program on there too in case I want to do some work at times on it.
What do you use yours for? Have you had problems if you load Word and/or Excel or a computer game on there with it taking up too much memory? How do you like it?

I assume you mean disk space. As I said below, 250GB is a lot of space for just a program or a game or two.

Upgrading to 2 gig of memory is quite easy. Mine...ASUS 1001p...came with Microsoft Works, but I loaded OpenOffice for word processing. 250 GB is quite a lot of space, and i doubt I will ever use more than a quarter of it. I use mine for web surfing and while travelling, Skype comes in handy. What I like best about the one I got, is the 10 hour battery life...don't have to plug it in every time I stop and want to use it. Great for a full travel day at airports and watching movies on planes. I convert movies from DVDs to files I can put on the netbook so I don't need a player to watch movies.

Have fun with yours.

 

[Myothername]

I assume you mean disk space. As I said below, 250GB is a lot of space for just a program or a game or two.

Upgrading to 2 gig of memory is quite easy. Mine...ASUS 1001p...came with Microsoft Works, but I loaded OpenOffice for word processing. 250 GB is quite a lot of space, and i doubt I will ever use more than a quarter of it. I use mine for web surfing and while travelling, Skype comes in handy. What I like best about the one I got, is the 10 hour battery life...don't have to plug it in every time I stop and want to use it. Great for a full travel day at airports and watching movies on planes. I convert movies from DVDs to files I can put on the netbook so I don't need a player to watch movies.

Have fun with yours.

Thanks. How do you convert the movies to a file to put on the netbook? That sounds great.

 

[Myothername]

Also, it was only $20 to upgrade the hard drive and I am not sure what all I am going to be using the netbook for so I wanted as much as I could get. I don't know if this one has an upgradable memory. Seems like I read that was one of the disadvantages but not sure. I may end up putting pictures and music on it. Just not sure. I know my desktop at home has much less memory and it is running soooooo slow. But then it has all our pictures and all our Itunes music on it. I really need to clean it up.

 

[bicker]

What do you use yours for?

Mostly, I use it to open a Remote Desktop connection to a desktop computer, located either elsewhere in the building, or perhaps even anywhere in the world.

Have you had problems if you load Word and/or Excel or a computer game on there with it taking up too much memory?

Microsoft Office products should do passably well on the netbooks they're building today. (That may not be so, for older netbooks.)

Similarly, playing videos, either streamed from the Internet or played off a DVD (external DVD drive - netbooks generally don't come with DVD drives built-in) should work fine as well.

The performance of computer games will depend on the game - on both the complexity of the software and how efficiently it was designed.

I do know that even straight-forward downloadable games, like FarmVille, don't work well on netbooks. It's just too processor-intensive for passably good performance. Solitaire should work fine though.

 

[jrmasm]

Mostly, I use it to open a Remote Desktop connection to a desktop computer, located either elsewhere in the building, or perhaps even anywhere in the world.

Microsoft Office products should do passably well on the netbooks they're building today. (That may not be so, for older netbooks.)

Similarly, playing videos, either streamed from the Internet or played off a DVD (external DVD drive - netbooks generally don't come with DVD drives built-in) should work fine as well.

The performance of computer games will depend on the game - on both the complexity of the software and how efficiently it was designed.

I do know that even straight-forward downloadable games, like FarmVille, don't work well on netbooks. It's just too processor-intensive for passably good performance. Solitaire should work fine though.[/QUOTE]

A PP mentionned play Bejeweled... I cannot play it on my netbook.

 

[Zerosinthecloset]

Thanks. How do you convert the movies to a file to put on the netbook? That sounds great.

There are a number of free conversion programs out there....just google "converting dvd to file" and a bunch of headings will point you to the correct programs. It takes a while to convert, but makes watching movies easier without having to carry a dvd player.