Comments on: Netbooks can do anything a notebook can do

By: pamela

pamela — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:34:39 +0000

I've installed a couple of audio softwares, an ableton live lite and mu.lab free and even though it gets overloaded with 2 or more tracks at once, i can record some ideas in midi, when i'm not at home (where i have my PC studio)

By: hein

hein — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:32:16 +0000

Just bought Lenovo S12 yesterday and loving it. it comes with Win 7, and even with SQL server express!! yes, I will be installing VS and plan to run IIS too. basically it’ll be dev machine whilst i’m on the move.

By: Danny Blaze

Danny Blaze — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:51:37 +0000

I don’t have anything unusual other than I have ran Xitami web server on my Acer Aspire One netbook. It did well. I use my netbook for all of my computing needs. I take a lot of photos and it is great to be able to pull out my netbook out of my backpack and upload them to my netbook. I use MS Office 2003 Pro and I use Visio also. This little computer is fantastic. I like the 8.9″ (9 inch) screen. I also use my Acer Aspire One with a portable Canon USB powered scanner to scan documents for work. Love this little machine!

By: HeartBeat

HeartBeat — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:01:07 +0000

I installed a full enterprise edition of Oracle Database along with Oracle Developments tools. I was able to run few Oracle applications and to develop Oracle Oracle Forms and Reports with no problems.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:54:06 +0000

I am looking at the Acer netbook as a replacement for my old Dell laptop. I use the Dell to playback MIDI files I have imported and edited in Cakewalk Home Studio 2002. Is anyone running Cakewalk Home Studio on one if the N270 processor netbooks? I am getting conflicting input from all of the salespeople at Best Buy, Comp USA, Staples and other computer outlets as to the N270′s power to handle this type of work. Thanks in advance for any help.

By: A

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:36:42 +0000

I use mine to sit in cafes and coffee shops and work on scripts, screenplays, note taking, story boarding, and other things you see trendy people doing in cafes and coffee shops. Now that I possibly sound cool let me ruin that mystique by adding that I use it when playing D&D, whether I am DM-ing of a friend is, for the DM to access the wealth of reference info online and that I scanned. It even fits behind the DM screen. Yeah, I’m a nerd…

By: aL

aL — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:16:13 +0000

I play starcraft on mine, during boring lectures. sometimes write notes and do homework and also for torrents. PLEASE SEEEED!!!!!

By: milksss

milksss — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:33:36 +0000

I found this while trying to read about how the HP mini 1000 works with Lightroom:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157608992454223/

I’d say that would be pretty hardcore.

I want to sell my quickly aging 3 year old Dell e1405 and purchase a HP mini 1000… is that a horrible idea? I know it will hold it’s value longer, and my Dell is already too slow for extensive photo editing.

By: BGE

BGE — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:18:37 +0000

Probably the strangest thing was to run an emulated N800 through Scratchbox to test out the software I write for the Nokia Internet Tablet… That, and actually cross compiling the software, but I thought running a mobile device emulator on another mobile device is kinda funny :) It’s useful to be able to do it on another mobile device with a nice keyboard (the Acer Aspire One’s keyboard is superb, better than some laptop keyboards I’ve used) so I can develop while watching the little one sleep.

That, and playing old DOS games on Dosbox, but that was mentioned already.

By: Dave P

Dave P — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:37:59 +0000

I've given PowerPoint presentations, taken notes on the slides, and emailed them (via Lotus Notes) to the participants as I was walking back to my office.

While my small laptop - an OQO 02 - is not normally considered a netbook, the only component that is more powerful than some netbooks is the screen. Oh, and it's smaller and lighter - about half the size and half the weight of many netbooks.