Miniature laptops

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  1. Taemos

    Taemos Officer at Arms

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    Your Aspire One will work if you replace the wireless card. I was thinking about installing it on mine, but the boot time is a little much for me.
     
  2. DeMoN X

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    Still in two minds about getting a netbook for xmas.. :katamari: Just wish there was 6 cell machines out at a decent price. The samsung NC10 is the only one that's tempting me atm.

    Or the wind so I can stick Mac OSX on it and then upgrade the battery.. oh choices.. :confused:

    Putting a 3 cell in one of these is just silly.
     
  3. Paulo

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    nc10 in white looks nice irl.
     
  4. RyanGamerGoneGrazy

    RyanGamerGoneGrazy Clubbies Are Minis Too!

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    true, but card readers, sleep don't work. I'm still heavily considering a Wind as my osx86 netbook. I had a look at one recently in store, and the extra inch of real estate is nice.

    Then again, i have a netgear usb wifi dongle sitting around, and i'd only really need the ethernet to work and not wifi, and i never use sleep to begin with....ahh choices!

    I'd love a macbook, but at 1400 for the cheapest new ones out there, its still a little beyond my reach, considering its more to be a 1-2 year use at best before i replace it.


    Or maybe i'll finally hook up one of the five or so mac pro g5 towers that are sitting around, and use that LOL
     
  5. Mr. Casual

    Mr. Casual Champion of the Forum

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    I just ordered a 2 gig RAM stick for my Eee PC so I can have more VRAM somewhat. Anyways, has anyone done gaming on these before?

    Like older games. I saw gameplay footage of WC3 on a 701 Eee PC and Dawn of War: Winter Assault on a similar one to mine with 1 gig of RAM ran pretty darn good if I do say so myself. Anyways, do you think it would be beefy enough to play Spore? From what I've seen I'm guessing it could.

    I need an external CD/DVD drive for some of those games, though. If I could just get a No-CD crack for them I could play them pretty much on the go.

    I didn't buy this for that type of gaming, but after watching videos of PC games in action, I might like to at least try running a few of my older PC games on it.
     
  6. Taemos

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    I don't know about Spore. For games that use CDs, use Imgburn and Daemon Tools. This won't work for games that have protection schemes like SafeDisc or SecuROM. You'll have to get a crack for those.

    You don't need an external CD drive to play CD games. The nice ones are expensive and the cheap ones are *bulky*.
     
  7. PhreQuencYViii

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    Isn't that what DS/GBA is for? :110:
     
  8. Mr. Casual

    Mr. Casual Champion of the Forum

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    Theres more reasons, such as the HDD space and its easy to use.
     
  9. Giel

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    I still carry my 12'' Powerbook around, can't bet it in terms of size/weight and what you get in return for it. Plus, I for one can't type the way I'd like to on notebooks smaller than 10''.
     
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    I'd be really surprised if Spore ran at anything more than a slideshow.
     
  11. Mr. Casual

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    Hmm, my Processor is too slow for Spore. I bet with maybe some tweaking I could play it though.

    I mean these machines are capable of playing Heroes of Might and Magic V, Dawn of War, World of Warcraft, etc.

    Oh well, looking back on Spore, the editors were the best part.:crying:

    Well, after checking Youtube vids of it, it IS possible to play Spore on an Eee PC, but you need to overclock your CPU and add 2 gigs of RAM to play it smoothely on the lowest settings. Though to be honest the difference in the highest and lowest settings in Spore is minimal. Meh, Im probably not going to reinstall that game on anything unless the next expansion doesn't suck. I saw the Creepy and Cute parts expansion out already, but I didn't want to drop $20 just for new parts, unless they make the gameplay a lot better.
     
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  12. RyanGamerGoneGrazy

    RyanGamerGoneGrazy Clubbies Are Minis Too!

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    spore runs "meh" on the aspire one on lowest settings

    GTA san andreas runs okay, vice city runs perfect.....rfactor and gtr2 run okay on lowest settings
     
  13. Taemos

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    I just play DOS games...

    Mechwarrior 2 runs smooth as butter, if anyone was wondering.
     
  14. Mr. Casual

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    Playing MAME games on this thing with my Microsoft Gamepad (I finally found the wireless thingamabob for it) is sheer awesome.

    When I played Metal Slug 3 with it, it reminded me of the Xbox version, which IMO was an awesome port of an awesome game.
     
  15. RyanGamerGoneGrazy

    RyanGamerGoneGrazy Clubbies Are Minis Too!

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    people totally under-estimate the shear versatility of these machines. I've been texturing a 3d model i made with CAD on the damm thing which issue!
     
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    Has anybody used the Dell Inspiron Mini 9s? I have been looking at one and I saw that Dell is going to have one for $299 tomorrow/today. It has a 4GB SSD drive and 512mb ram, low on the specs but a 2gb ram stick is fairly cheap.
     
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    About your new "Eee PC 900HA", hows the keyboard?
    Thinking about getting one to use as a word processor for school (will also be running multisim on it).
     
  18. Paulo

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    There was a dell missprice today in the UK. £99 each for the unbuntu edtion with 8gb ssd 1gb ram and so on. Only the 0.3mp camera though.

    Oh well waiting to see if they are going to honour it for me and my gf.
     
  19. Mr. Casual

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    I make some mistakes on it every now and then, but its not terrible. BIG lettering on the keys makes it easier to see. Its organized a bit differently on some parts but thats about it.
     
  20. Paulo

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    Update one is in theory in delivery to me for monday now. Had an automated dell call about it.
     
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