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I'm going to pick up a netbook on the way home from work tonight. But don't really know much about them.
Been looking at the Acer One with 120GB hard drive and 512mb ram. Mainly because i read somewhere that the SD drive where quite slow on these when upgrading to xp (I'd also probably upgrade the ram if i chose to do this).
At £220 there the cheapest on the market that i can see but come with linux. I've only ever used windows and know very little about this operating system. hence why i'm going for the hard drive version. What limitations would i have using this system over xp.
It's main use would be surfing the net, msn messenger, watching videos (is install codecs fairly easy?), and word processing. Probably a little photo editing too. So not too much heavy usage.
Sorry for a thread that has probably already been covered many times over. I've done a quick search but can't find much. just need a quick reply so that i don't buy the wrong spec for my needs.
Been looking at the Acer One with 120GB hard drive and 512mb ram. Mainly because i read somewhere that the SD drive where quite slow on these when upgrading to xp (I'd also probably upgrade the ram if i chose to do this).
At £220 there the cheapest on the market that i can see but come with linux. I've only ever used windows and know very little about this operating system. hence why i'm going for the hard drive version. What limitations would i have using this system over xp.
It's main use would be surfing the net, msn messenger, watching videos (is install codecs fairly easy?), and word processing. Probably a little photo editing too. So not too much heavy usage.
Sorry for a thread that has probably already been covered many times over. I've done a quick search but can't find much. just need a quick reply so that i don't buy the wrong spec for my needs.
