what are these kind of laptops are made to do?

travisbrummett said:
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Can it handle online college education programs on the net, browsing the net, watching netflix movies and steaming video to my xbox 360?
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Netbooks are made for basic needs like internet, e-mail, word processing. I wouldn't rely on a netbook to convert movies or stream them.
 
travisbrummett said:
Can it handle online college education programs on the net, browsing the net, watching netflix movies and steaming video to my xbox 360?
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Yes, you can use netbooks for simple tasks as JTM pointed out. For the most part they are not useful for much else. I have, however, also had great success using them for watching Netflix movies. You should not have a problem streaming movies off of them to your 360 either. This will just depend on your network speed.

...just don't expect to watch full HD material (H.264 encoded or VC-1 especially) at a respectable frame rate. If you must do this, look for a unit with nVidia's ION chipset. They are coming soon.
 
That doesn't mean people won't try to play HD material on it. Most netbook-class computers have a greater resolution than standard definition material anyway. Some do have rather high resolution screens...ridiculously high resolution screens for what they are...
 
Zatharus said:
That doesn't mean people won't try to play HD material on it. Most netbook-class computers have a greater resolution than standard definition material anyway. Some do have rather high resolution screens...ridiculously high resolution screens for what they are...
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I have an MSI Wind U120 and it has the netbook standard 1024x768. It's pretty good, I can watch some movies on it in high quality. I wouldn't recommend it however for any type of viewing material in HD.
 
JTM said:
I have an MSI Wind U120 and it has the netbook standard 1024x768. It's pretty good, I can watch some movies on it in high quality. I wouldn't recommend it however for any type of viewing material in HD.
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The netbook standard (if you can call it that) for display resolution is 1024x600. To my knowledge the U120 has this resolution as well. I have only seen a few special machines from HP and Sony with much higher resolutions, and I wouldn't really classify those in with netbooks.
 
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