I am looking into netbooks, my mom uses her vaio desktop primarily just for printing and checking her work schedule online, maybe some internet, is a newbook perfect for her? I am looking to use her desktop as a server, its aging aswell at from 2002, and it has some nice bays I can use to make a webserver and a file server.
So long as your mother's eyesight isn't too weak a netbook should be a good option.
The HP 2133 Mini-Note has a lovely high screen resolution, meaning text and icons will appear very small...
Of course you can change the settings, and in Firefox it's just a matter of CTRL + to zoom in/ make text larger. With my mini-note running VIsta Business it's still hard to find that perfect balance between legibilty and getting the damn windows to fit on the ickle screen - it can be that you up the dpi, then find that the OK & Apply buttons in, say, Control Panel windows are trapped off the bottom of the screen.
Which is irritating. Or perhaps I am missing something?
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Haikibutsu @ Jun 25th 2008 7:17AM
I am looking into netbooks, my mom uses her vaio desktop primarily just for printing and checking her work schedule online, maybe some internet, is a newbook perfect for her? I am looking to use her desktop as a server, its aging aswell at from 2002, and it has some nice bays I can use to make a webserver and a file server.
Roreek @ Jun 25th 2008 8:10AM
So long as your mother's eyesight isn't too weak a netbook should be a good option.
The HP 2133 Mini-Note has a lovely high screen resolution, meaning text and icons will appear very small...
Of course you can change the settings, and in Firefox it's just a matter of CTRL + to zoom in/ make text larger. With my mini-note running VIsta Business it's still hard to find that perfect balance between legibilty and getting the damn windows to fit on the ickle screen - it can be that you up the dpi, then find that the OK & Apply buttons in, say, Control Panel windows are trapped off the bottom of the screen.
Which is irritating. Or perhaps I am missing something?