Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Joshua MacCraw
You wasted good money then, should have gotten the Asus EEE PC 1201N! Same degree of bloatware to remove I had to upgrade to W7 business from the high end W7 home version but well worth the money IMHO over anything else I looked at. On 8/8/2010 5:30 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote: I went out

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Joshua MacCraw
You base that on fact or just impression? I've not found W7 any slower than XP on the same hardware. On 8/8/2010 8:08 PM, Scoobydo wrote: XP is faster especially with only 2 gigs of RAM.. On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:30:08 -0500, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote: I went out and got a

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:36 PM 10/08/2010, Joshua MacCraw wrote: Like ION HTPC's being made, it kicks ass video wise. Thanks to CUDA certain apps can offload work to the GPU. Doesn't replace my Q6600 desktop by but gives me what I need portable short of serious games. Video is all that matters because even

[H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-08 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I went out and got a netbook, it's an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB, which I've upgraded to 2GB memory. It has an N450 in it, and, although I expected it to be slow, it's pretty much a dog and Asus had decided that any working area on the screen should be made as small as possible with large menu bars,

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-08 Thread Scoobydo
XP is faster especially with only 2 gigs of RAM.. On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:30:08 -0500, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote: I went out and got a netbook, it's an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB, which I've upgraded to 2GB memory. It has an N450 in it, and, although I expected it to be slow,