i know its not great but is it good enough?

nathan32111

nathan32111

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hello to all,
im buying my first lap top [netbook] and im looking to be able to play basic games like age of empires 3.
i found this netbook and was wondering what its capable of?
Since theirs no optical drive how would i download aoe:3?
cpu info?
ect ect...


Mini 110-3038TU Netbook

CPU - Intel® Atom™ Processor N455 (1.66GHz, 512KB L2, 667Mhz FSB)

Display Panel - 10.1” Diagonal WSVGA HP Anti-glare LED Display (1024 x 600)

Standard Memory - 1024MB 667MHz DDR2 (1 Dimm) system

Hard drive - 160GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive

Optical drive - No internal optical drive

Networking⁄Wireless-802.11b⁄g WLAN Integrated 10⁄100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)

Graphics - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 (shared)

WebCam⁄Mic - Yes

Operating System - Microsoft® Windows® 7 Starter

Battery - 3 Cell Lithium-ion

thanks in advance:good:
 
seems like a pretty standard netbook 1gb ram, intel atom cpu which is good for its purpose but not very powerful, should do the basics, what do you mean how would you download without an optical drive ?

do you own a usb flash drive ?
 
The following are the minimum system requirements to run Age of Empire III:

* Windows XP
* A computer that has a 1.4 gigahertz (GHz) processor
* 256 megabytes (MB) of system RAM
* A hard disk that has at least 2 gigabytes (GB) of available space
* A 32x speed CD drive
* A 64 MB video card that supports Hardware Transform and Lighting
* An audio card and speakers or headphones
* A Microsoft mouse or a compatible pointing device
* A 56.6 kilobytes per second (KBps) or faster Internet connection for online play
* DirectX 9.0c
 
You could purchase an external optical drive to plug into the netbook when needed. FWIW, it's "etc.":D
 
1shado1 said:
You could purchase an external optical drive to plug into the netbook when needed. FWIW, it's "etc.":D
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Good advice I bought a Toshiba external DVD drive for my Toshiba NB250-255 also installed 2 Gb of RAM. Installed many of my programs and it really works great.:)
 
flanker said:
Good advice I bought a Toshiba external DVD drive for my Toshiba NB250-255 also installed 2 Gb of RAM. Installed many of my programs and it really works great.:)
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I took the optical drive out of my full size Tosh laptop and installed a second HDD in the optical drive bay. Then I mounted the optical drive in an external case, so I can use it with my Asus netbook, too. As optical discs are becoming less common, I didn't see the point in having an internal optical drive taking up a bay, when I seldom use it.
 
1shado1 said:
I took the optical drive out of my full size Tosh laptop and installed a second HDD in the optical drive bay. Then I mounted the optical drive in an external case, so I can use it with my Asus netbook, too. As optical discs are becoming less common, I didn't see the point in having an internal optical drive taking up a bay, when I seldom use it.
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Hi 1shao1,
I am interesting what you did. Can you tell me more? Is the interface on the optical drive SATA? What kind hard drive you installed there? is it 3.5 inches or 2.5 inches laptop hd? do you have to use adapter to mount the hard drive? as the optical drive are 5 inches? how is the thickness of the hard drive? what brand hard drive do you use? I am thinking about to get a SSD but there isn't second drive bay in my laptop. You gave me this grea idea.
Thank you.
 
paulcheung said:
Hi 1shao1,
I am interesting what you did. Can you tell me more? Is the interface on the optical drive SATA? What kind hard drive you installed there? is it 3.5 inches or 2.5 inches laptop hd? do you have to use adapter to mount the hard drive? as the optical drive are 5 inches? how is the thickness of the hard drive? what brand hard drive do you use? I am thinking about to get a SSD but there isn't second drive bay in my laptop. You gave me this grea idea.
Thank you.
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You have to purchase an optical drive bay caddy to hold the HDD you want to add. There are caddys available with pata or sata interfaces. You would use a 2.5 inch laptop drive. The one I am using is a 500GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue. Most laptops will only accomodate drives that are 9.5mm in height (which is pretty much standard height for most laptop HDDs. Although I think I could fit a 1TB, 12mm high drive in mine. I don't remember much more than this. But there is a thread at another forum which gave me the idea. Lots of stuff to read and sift through. Here is a link:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...-ssd-hdd-storage-using-optical-bay-caddy.html
 
1shado1 said:
You have to purchase an optical drive bay caddy to hold the HDD you want to add. There are caddys available with pata or sata interfaces. You would use a 2.5 inch laptop drive. The one I am using is a 500GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue. Most laptops will only accomodate drives that are 9.5mm in height (which is pretty much standard height for most laptop HDDs. Although I think I could fit a 1TB, 12mm high drive in mine. I don't remember much more than this. But there is a thread at another forum which gave me the idea. Lots of stuff to read and sift through. Here is a link:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...-ssd-hdd-storage-using-optical-bay-caddy.html
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Thank you.
 
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