I've recently been using my desktop less and less since moving into my new place and am thinking about getting a netbook as I spend most of my time in the living room these days!
I've been looking at the cheaper options around the £200 mark. Maybe the ASUS 1015PX. They all seem to have roughly the same spec, atom n450 or thereabouts with 1gb ram.
I will be using the netbook for what it's been designed to do; web browsing, youtube, downloading and a bit of word processing/spreadsheet work.
My only concern is the performance side of things as I'm used to a decently powered desktop. Now I'm obviously not expecting to play games on it, (well maybe flash ones!), but is it pretty smooth when it comes to the tasks listed above or is it quite noticeable that you're running a naff spec? I don't want to load up a flash heavy website and it to struggle as I think that would wind me up very quickly.
I like the idea of a netbook over a laptop pretty much solely on the size and the price. I'd prefer to have a nice small, quiet, light netbook on my lap rather than a louder more chunkier laptop.
Anyone been in a similar situation and 'downgraded' to something smaller? Any thoughts?
I've been looking at the cheaper options around the £200 mark. Maybe the ASUS 1015PX. They all seem to have roughly the same spec, atom n450 or thereabouts with 1gb ram.
I will be using the netbook for what it's been designed to do; web browsing, youtube, downloading and a bit of word processing/spreadsheet work.
My only concern is the performance side of things as I'm used to a decently powered desktop. Now I'm obviously not expecting to play games on it, (well maybe flash ones!), but is it pretty smooth when it comes to the tasks listed above or is it quite noticeable that you're running a naff spec? I don't want to load up a flash heavy website and it to struggle as I think that would wind me up very quickly.
I like the idea of a netbook over a laptop pretty much solely on the size and the price. I'd prefer to have a nice small, quiet, light netbook on my lap rather than a louder more chunkier laptop.
Anyone been in a similar situation and 'downgraded' to something smaller? Any thoughts?