Irishwhistle
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If you do get the wind, get one with a 6 cell vs 3 cell battery
How come? 2.5hrs doesn't really bother me...
EDIT: Or will it when I get it?
Netbooks...
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How come? 2.5hrs doesn't really bother me...
EDIT: Or will it when I get it?
I'm pretty sure the 3 cell battery in my Lenovo lasts over 3.5 hours if I'm just browsing the net or something, It seems to use less power now running Xp than it did when i had Suse Enterprise or OSX installed.
Il have to give it a full charge and see how long it lasts, none the less it's a brilliant net book and if you decide not to go with the wind, consider the Lenovo.
I was going to go with the Wind then the dell 10.. but it cost more over here.
Il have to give it a full charge and see how long it lasts, none the less it's a brilliant net book and if you decide not to go with the wind, consider the Lenovo.
I was going to go with the Wind then the dell 10.. but it cost more over here.
Irishwhistle
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The Lenovo costs $30 more than the Wind here so I think I'll probably get the Wind.
bomberboysk
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How come? 2.5hrs doesn't really bother me...
EDIT: Or will it when I get it?
Because the models with 6 cell batteries arent a heck of alot more:
3cell:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152092
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152093
6cell:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152091
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152104
And the fact youll get about double the battery life...
Irishwhistle
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But those 6cell ones are U120s... you can't upgrade the RAM on those. Not to mention that I'm not sure it it's even worth it to pay $30 more for the extra battery life as I normally have access to a power source.
bomberboysk
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152110
Plus you get a slightly better atom by 60Mhz... Prolly not worth it though if you dont care about battery life.Irishwhistle
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152110
Yeah, $50 is too much to spend for just a better battery in my case (well, the processor is slightly better too, but that doesn't make a huge difference.) Maybe it's just me, but I kinda like what the U100 looks like better anyway.
Here's the one I'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152092Thanks for all the help btw.
bomberboysk
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Yeah, $50 is too much to spend for just a better battery in my case (well, the processor is slightly better too, but that doesn't make a huge difference.) Maybe it's just me, but I kinda like what the U100 looks like better anyway.
Thanks for all the help btw.
Looks good, would recommend upgrading to 2gb of memory with something such as this though:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104100
Irishwhistle
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Yup! I'll see how it runs for a while without the extra RAM, but I'll probably end up upgrading it sooner or later.
1shado1
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Does upgrading the RAM on the MSI Wind netbooks still void the warranty, or did they change that?
bomberboysk
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No idea. I would still assume yes though, as you need to punch through a warranty void sticker to upgrade it.
Edit:
You need to contact MSI and they will give you an instructional booklet, a new warranty sticker, and an approved component guide, and you get to keep your warranty as long as you contact MSI and get the needed materials...
Edit 2: Above only applies to MSI UK, so if your in the states, upgrading memory means warranty void.
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Irishwhistle
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I think a netbook is not powerful enough for your needs. You might as well invest in a better laptop.
Well, I used to have an old 1.4 GHz single core Celeron CPU, and most of it's specs were worse than than the Intel Atom (if not all the specs... I haven't ever really taken a ton of time to learn a lot about CPUs. Maybe I should sometime.) Anyway, I had that CPU in an old rig with 256MB DDR RAM and some rubbish onboard graphics chipset. It couldn't really run any games, but it could edit photos fairly well when using a lightweight Linux distro, or even in Windows XP, so that's what experience I'm coming from. And the MSI Wind can easily be overclocked to 2.0GHz with a press of a button so it should be able to handle what I want. Maybe I'm horridly mistaken though.
WeatherMan
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Not sure about over there, but over here you can pick up a HP 550 cheaper than a 1000H, has the same cpu, and ram, not as much HDD space, but still 60GB which will be more than enough.
The bonus is that it comes with a 15.4" screen, although the bigger screen is also its downside
The bonus is that it comes with a 15.4" screen, although the bigger screen is also its downside
bomberboysk
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Well, I used to have an old 1.4 GHz single core Celeron CPU, and most of it's specs were worse than than the Intel Atom (if not all the specs... I haven't ever really taken a ton of time to learn a lot about CPUs. Maybe I should sometime.) Anyway, I had that CPU in an old rig with 256MB DDR RAM and some rubbish onboard graphics chipset. It couldn't really run any games, but it could edit photos fairly well when using a lightweight Linux distro, or even in Windows XP, so that's what experience I'm coming from. And the MSI Wind can easily be overclocked to 2.0GHz with a press of a button so it should be able to handle what I want. Maybe I'm horridly mistaken though.
Actually the atom is slower than a celeron(if its pentium 3/4based) is..
But i agree with omega, at that res its gonna suck to do anything with photo's but to each his own.Irishwhistle
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Actually the atom is slower than a celeron(if its pentium 3/4based) is..
Well I know it didn't have SSE2... don't bother asking why I remember that.
It was based on P6 I believe (the CPU was a Celeron 1400 if I'm remembering correctly.) It was a 2002 model, sooo... how do you think an atom would perform compared to that?As far as the resolution is concerned, I don't just want it for photography (yes, I know how I began my post, but I'm also sick of being down in the basement just to use the internet when I could be upstairs or outside enjoying the weather, and I'd like a netbook to take with me wherever I go so I don't have to use someone else's computer just to get online. I don't think the resolution will be a huge issue for the basic editing I'd be doing with it (I'm talking about Picasa-level editing, nothing much, anything more I'd do with my desktop.)
bomberboysk
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Well I know it didn't have SSE2... don't bother asking why I remember that.
As far as the resolution is concerned, I don't just want it for photography (yes, I know how I began my post, but I'm also sick of being down in the basement just to use the internet when I could be upstairs or outside enjoying the weather, and I'd like a netbook to take with me wherever I go so I don't have to use someone else's computer just to get online. I don't think the resolution will be a huge issue for the basic editing I'd be doing with it (I'm talking about Picasa-level editing, nothing much, anything more I'd do with my desktop.)
Yeah, i would say similar performance to the celeron, maybe slightly more/less depending on what you are doing(hyperthreading makes it slightly more effecient, but its still an in order cpu and pretty low powered). It performs roughly half as fast as a comporable pentium M.
Irishwhistle
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Okay, well if I were to OC it to 2.0GHz when I'm working with photos and attempting to play games (I know, I know, it won't work very well, but I have to try at least... hey somebody got HL2 working quite nicely on a Wind. Not that I'm expecting to be able to get it running at all, but I will try.
) it should work fairly well.Reviews say that it performs quite nicely for what it is so we shall see. As long as it can do the net, play movies, view/edit photo (I can always size down the photos if it can't handle big 10mp images), and play old lightweight games (ya know, like half life 1) I'll be happy.
I'm planning on ordering this week, so unless I discover something really bad about it that I didn't know about that's what I'll do.
bomberboysk
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Yeah, actually some of the lower end games such as halo(1) run pretty well on a netbook, i have a friend with a dell mini 9 and they have played halo on it(albeit not at high settings, but halo nonetheless).Okay, well if I were to OC it to 2.0GHz when I'm working with photos and attempting to play games (I know, I know, it won't work very well, but I have to try at least... hey somebody got HL2 working quite nicely on a Wind. Not that I'm expecting to be able to get it running at all, but I will try.
Reviews say that it performs quite nicely for what it is so we shall see. As long as it can do the net, play movies, view/edit photo (I can always size down the photos if it can't handle big 10mp images), and play old lightweight games (ya know, like half life 1) I'll be happy.
I'm planning on ordering this week, so unless I discover something really bad about it that I didn't know about that's what I'll do.