I bought a year or so ago an Acer Aspite One ZG5 for just under $ 200 (refurbished). Great little thing to have on the coffee table. 10" screen, Win XP Pro SP3, onboard wireless, 140 Gig HDD, 2 SD card slots, 3 USB ports, Ethernet and VGA ports,NO CD drives though. OS on HDD partition for repait/re-install (Acer eRecovery).
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:29 AM, dave walton <walton.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks much for the info. > > I use a Mini-ITX desktop to run Windows Media Center. It's about the > size of a toaster. Has a Zotac MB with Atom dual core CPU. That's > 1.6Ghz with Nvidia Ion video. Plays Blu-Ray and HDTV smoothly at 1080. > I tested a single core Atom computer (FitPC2), but it stuttered just a > bit when running at 1080. Did 720 okay. This computer uses less than > 1/3rd the power of my quad-core AMD and the video is smoother. > > The Fit PC is way cool. It does tent to get too warm in my opinion > because of the hard drive. SSD would probably be ideal but is too > pricey for me to play with right now. > > http://fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page > > -Dave Walton > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Alex Chamberlain > <apchamberl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> wrote: > >> > >> Are those $299 netbook things any good? > > > > I love the two netbooks in my house (Dell Vostro and Asus Eee) for web > > browsing. They are as fast as anything else with a lightweight Linux > > distro (Mint, Puppy, etc.). Forget about serious typing with those > > little keyboards, though. > > > > For the original poster (Dave W.), I'm going to take the contrarian > > view from everyone else here and suggest a refurbished IBM Thinkpad. > > Beautiful big screen, plenty fast enough, will probably come with XP > > Pro installed but they're very Linux-friendly so it shouldn't be a > > hassle at all to put Ubuntu on it if you want. Most importantly they > > are built like tanks and so are more likely than any new $300 laptop > > to survive repeated trips through the mail. > > > > Alex > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Hans Neureiter, Houston, TX '82 300SD '02 RoadKing '72 T100 Daytona _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
