[aklug] Re: Netbook Purchase

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Wed Sep 16 2009 - 22:12:02 AKDT

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doug wrote:
> The Head Techy at Bestbuy claimed they could not get office word to work
> well with any of the netbooks .
> His claim was the processors where designed to "search the web"
> and "do Email'.
> Said"he could type a line before it showed up on the screen"
> Doug

Well, the processors on the netbooks aren't real impressive, but they
are 1.6hz, which is enough to run OpenOffice okay. Heck, OpenOffice
probably doesn't take much more processing power than Firefox.

Maybe he got his impressions from some of the early net book models.
Some of those had 900 Mhz processors with cheap Intel graphics chips.

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