Saving my man cave!

khrall · 9 May 2010 at 16:06

My man cave is being invaded by all things Facebook, I regularly come in to find the annoying tones of Cafeworld and the bleating sheep of Farmville and I need help!

I've been looking at ways of stopping this infestation but barricading, cattleprods and chaing to the fence have had little success so far, so it looks like I need to buy a netbook or a cheap laptop for her to use.

The one item that has caught my eye is the mini 311. I am seeing the potential for it to also be used for streaming to the tv via it's hdmi port.

How does it cope with streaming? How does it cope with Facebook games? Is there anything else around this price range that will do these things?

Please advise a desperate man!

Tony.

Aod · 9 May 2010 at 16:24

as long as the websites's she's visiting aren't TOO heavily flash-infested, then an Atom Netbook should be fine.

Streaming, on the otherhand, depends on your local area. if you have large amounts of wireless contention (lots of neighbouring WiFi networks on the same frequency) then you'll have difficulty streaming high-bitrate media smoothly. on the other hand, if you've got the airspace all to yourself, then even the lowly WiFi G should be good for anything with a bitrate of 16,384 kilobits/s or less

icedbullet · 9 May 2010 at 16:26

Why is she out of the kitchen in the first place?

Devrij · 9 May 2010 at 16:34

It won't work mate, my gf has her own laptop but I constantly find her on my desktop because it's just "nicer" (which it is

). She claims she would never use it if I wanted it, but that, my friend, all changes when she's chatting on fb/msn/skype etc. If you want the other half off your pride and joy, you'll need something pretty decent (unless yours is more reasonable than mine!

)

khrall · 9 May 2010 at 16:50

Aod said:
as long as the websites's she's visiting aren't TOO heavily flash-infested, then an Atom Netbook should be fine.

Streaming, on the otherhand, depends on your local area. if you have large amounts of wireless contention (lots of neighbouring WiFi networks on the same frequency) then you'll have difficulty streaming high-bitrate media smoothly. on the other hand, if you've got the airspace all to yourself, then even the lowly WiFi G should be good for anything with a bitrate of 16,384 kilobits/s or less

My Router is near the TV, so worst case, hardwire to network for TV. From what I've read, the 311c seems "ok" at playing HD.

icedbullet said:
Why is she out of the kitchen in the first place?

It's safer for all man kind for her to stay out of the kitchen!

Devrij said:
It won't work mate, my gf has her own laptop but I constantly find her on my desktop because it's just "nicer" (which it is ). She claims she would never use it if I wanted it, but that, my friend, all changes when she's chatting on fb/msn/skype etc. If you want the other half off your pride and joy, you'll need something pretty decent (unless yours is more reasonable than mine! )

My secret plan was, once she has netbook, edit lmhosts on my machine to block facebook. Then she'll have no choice