netbooks, notebooks, etc

[Penfold]

I've only had it 5 mins but the battery is still going strong

I'll know better when I've used it in anger.

So Oldie, what's it like a month into it? Pleased with it? Decent battery life etc?

I'm sorely tempted I have to say

[delanvital]

I got the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 for the gf.  Only downside is the Atom N270, but in a netbook it is more than fine. A well made piece of equipment and I recommend it. Over here, in the 2GB variant, it costs 3550 DKK which is  ~ 400 quid.

[OldBloke]

So Oldie, what's it like a month into it? Pleased with it? Decent battery life etc?

I'm sorely tempted I have to say

Excellent. The battery is good for 4 hours which is fine for me and there's always the option to purchase the 'bigger' battery if I need to.

I've got it dual booting the supplied XP Home and Windows 7 RC (which boots as quick as XP and runs like a dream).

Highly recommended.

[Penfold]

Coolio.

Ordered a blue one today with the 6-cell battery. It's a few squidly more than your cracking Ã,£231.99 (like Ã,£288) but battery life is the main consideration for me when travelling to clients.

I hate dragging around a power lead and transformer that's as big as my pc .

May have to ask you about the dual booting thingy. I have windows 7 and would much rather have it than XP.

Cheers

[T-Bag]

I hate dragging around a power lead and transformer that's as big as my pc .

I'm not sure if all netbooks do it, but the Aspire One comes with a tiny power adapter. It's smaller but deeper than a mobile phone. With cables included it's still not pocket size, but it's lightweight and easy to put in a bag. You might end up taking your charger with you more often than you might think.

[Penfold]

Excellent. The battery is good for 4 hours which is fine for me and there's always the option to purchase the 'bigger' battery if I need to.

I've got it dual booting the supplied XP Home and Windows 7 RC (which boots as quick as XP and runs like a dream).

Highly recommended.

can you please explain this to me.

Currently is has XP installed and that has all the things like the battery manager yada yada. If I install Windows 7 I lose those programs?

I'm not sure what the benefit of having both on the system. Preusmably then you have to install things like MS Office twice - or are you only installing it on, say Windows 7. Then, if so, what do you use the XP for?

Thanks

[delanvital]

can you please explain this to me.

Currently is has XP installed and that has all the things like the battery manager yada yada. If I install Windows 7 I lose those programs?

I'm not sure what the benefit of having both on the system. Preusmably then you have to install things like MS Office twice - or are you only installing it on, say Windows 7. Then, if so, what do you use the XP for?

Thanks

I have some experience with this and if the battery manager is just somewhat as good as the Lenovo/IBM one (which you can also use btw) it is worth keeping. What you have to do is check the support site for the laptop and see if you can download appropriate versions.

[T-Bag]

can you please explain this to me.

Currently is has XP installed and that has all the things like the battery manager yada yada. If I install Windows 7 I lose those programs?

Thanks

You'll have different battery saving setting in both if you dual boot. For instance if in XP you have it set to never shut of monitor or hard drives it'll eat through your battery, but when you load Win 7 with different settings, to save power it won't, neither will know what the other is doing. Nor will you be able to load a program installed on the other OS.

As far as dual booting two versions of windows I can't think of a reason to. If you have Win 7 it has supposedly very good support for XP programs (with a built in virtual machine in some versions). I don't see a need to dual boot with vista and I use some non-standard programs and hardware. It might mean using a later version of your software, but there's a way to run almost every program by now.

If you're installing Win 7 on top it's a clean install I believe (you can only upgrade from vista to win 7 and keep the programs you had). So you'll need to reinstall everything just like a format. This is the best option if you're putting win 7 on in my opinion.

[OldBloke]

I'm dual booting because I can

Seriously , I just wanted to:

a. Play with Win7
b. See if the little fella could cope with it

They're great for this type of experimentation.

[Penfold]

OK thanks.

I would like to use W7 but it wipes out many of the little function bits unique with the Samsung install.

If I can find those for W7 then I'll do it, otherwise I'll leave it vanilla.

Cheers

PEN.

[OldBloke]

OK thanks.

I would like to use W7 but it wipes out many of the little function bits unique with the Samsung install.

So dual-boot :doh:

[Penfold]

No idea how to do dat.

Perhaps I'll just wait for the LAN and ask someone nicely how to explain it to me:)

[T-Bag]

No idea how to do dat.

Perhaps I'll just wait for the LAN and ask someone nicely how to explain it to me:)

What sort of extras? If you list the ones important to you we might be able to help.

[kregoron]

dual booting aint that hard

http://www.techspot.com/guides/143-dual-boot-windows7/

[DogMeat]

dual booting aint that hard

Or even necessary...

http://www.virtualbox.org/