going to be buying a asus eee pc for my kid, unsure what one to get,its for the internet and to watch movies, any help will be greatful thanks
been on net looking,see they are quite alot of netbooks, thought iwould put films straight on to the hard drive, would you recommend any and why,thanks
then stay away from one's that have solid state drives & go for one's that have regular drives as have bigger capacity. check this link to see what i mean. http://www.pcvonline.com/Products_Specials.aspx?CategoryID=24691&24006
Indeed. I bought an Acer Aspire One. The SSD sounded appealing, the idea of a machine that you could move about without worryingthe hard drive would get knocked. However all the reviews i read (apart from the ones by diehard SSD pushers) said that the only way to get almost decent XP performance was to install 'lite' versions of XP. I bought the 120GB hard drive version with Linux, with the intention of wiping it and putting XP on (full version), with a version (undecided as to which one) of Linux on later as a dual boot. I did all this weeks ago and the machine is literally left on for days at a time, it's very quick indeed. The only thing it lacks is an optical drive, but whenever i need to use one i just attach one of my USB2.0 enclosures for whatever task is needed, then remove it. Other than that the only thing i attach is a USB optical mouse as the inbuilt mousepad is a bit awkward to use for long periods. It's pretty good but you can't beat using a normal mouse. It's nice having 3 USB2.0 ports, ethernet, a VGA connection for output to a large screen, 2 audio jacks and best of all it has 2 inbuilt card readers - i have a 4GB SD card which works great and it'd be nice to buy a 16GB SD card sometime.
SSD should be fine for a 6year old, my two kids love using the Acer. edit- however i probably wouldn't buy an SSD version for my own kids as they've been using computers since a very young age and would no doubt find SSD-related delays annoying..
what ive read if the netbook has an ssd drive it makes it shock proof,is this true or is it just a selling point
Oh right, cheers, I was guessing, i can't stand ipods myself, bloody iTunes (my mp3 player is a Creative with a standard hard drive, hard drives are good enough for me, i make sure to never mistreat them). I thought SSD's were hyped up so much because they were supposed to be shock proof, i guess they are but only to a certain point.
thanks a lot think ill go for the the bigger drive and take the chance,long as he keeps it away from his little sister it should be ok lol
Cool. Please make sure to keep us posted on your experiences with the new machine. Here's some more reading for you if you're interested - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/717289/4387534
hi back again, looking at the msi wind u120 and the asus Eee pc 1000 has anybody have any thoughts on these two,or have any recommendations on any other netbooks.thanks again
