[aklug] Re: Netbook Purchase

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Christopher Howard wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Oh, and of course it wouldn't be a problem on Gentoo 'cause you would
super-optimize the build for lightning performance. ;) Well, I guess
we'll see once my Mini 10v finally arrives.

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Received on Wed Sep 16 22:23:51 2009