One of the main reasons I haven't purchase a "netbook" is because it's not that great for it's intended purpose. When you consider all the things people use the Internet for, it's often too demanding for most "netbooks". Take a look at all the things i have running right now on my MacBook Pro that are connected to "the net".
1) Mail 2) Firefox 3) Adium 4) Entourage
There's just no way to run all of that smoothly on a "netbook". And part of the problem is the name. I know that netbooks are intended just to have the web browser open most of the time and do the heavy lifting, but if that's the case, then the name should be WEBbook, and not netbook. Besides, most of these netbooks such majorly at Flash, making even the web something it can't do that well.
Maybe in a couple years, the market will short itself out. Right now, it's just going through a LOT of growing pains (with absolutely no market strategy).
Really? Cause I do that on a regular basis with my HP Mini 1000 running OSX (I switch between Windows 7 and OSX on it). I can surf the net, be on iChat, have Entourage running as well as another program without a hiccup.
Actually I would have to partially disagree. In many cases you are correct, but I am running Photoshop CS4, firefox (running pandora), Thunderbird, and Digsby and am having no problems on my Mini 9. And it doesn't have any problems running flash or streaming video over the internet. On the other hand, my friends MSI Wind or Lenovo S10 have more problems running all these. Part of the reason is only 1GB of RAM and the standard HDD. So for me, my netbook can do all that my 15" notebook does. No it does not have a ODD, but I hardly ever use those anymore and I just create iso's if I need. All the games I would ever want to actually run on a 9" screen run fine.
Your kidding right? None of those programs are particularly intensive. I could run all of them on my 450mhz G3 Power Mac if I desired. The original Eee PC running an underclocked 900mhz Celeron (at 650mhz) could handle those programs (or equivalents), and netbooks with a 1.6ghz Atom even more so. On my Eee PC 4G I usually have Firefox, Adium, and Skype open at the same time, as well as openoffice if I'm taking notes. The only point you really have is with Flash, which in my experience runs decent on YouTube. The only time flash is really slow on me is full screen or with Hulu. Even then setting the quality to low will allow it to run decent. This is with a celeron machine also; I'd imagine the much faster Atom Netbooks could handle it just fine.
Dude, you should get an Eepcif that's all you're running.
My Eeepc runs web (20-30 tabs open on 'Fox most of the time), mail, Adium, iTiunes, uTorrent and a few other things in the background with no problems. It won't run Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop or games very well (or at all...) but you're A-OK with Office, mail, net and lightweight apps.
Umm yeah, you could be running a netbook NP, Even more so if you hackintoshed it. I on the other hand cannot due to the fact that my hands feel like they are going to fall off when i try to type on a netbook, but i got the carpal tunnel.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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One of the main reasons I haven't purchase a "netbook" is because it's not that great for it's intended purpose. When you consider all the things people use the Internet for, it's often too demanding for most "netbooks". Take a look at all the things i have running right now on my MacBook Pro that are connected to "the net".
1) Mail
2) Firefox
3) Adium
4) Entourage
There's just no way to run all of that smoothly on a "netbook". And part of the problem is the name. I know that netbooks are intended just to have the web browser open most of the time and do the heavy lifting, but if that's the case, then the name should be WEBbook, and not netbook. Besides, most of these netbooks such majorly at Flash, making even the web something it can't do that well.
Maybe in a couple years, the market will short itself out. Right now, it's just going through a LOT of growing pains (with absolutely no market strategy).
Really? Cause I do that on a regular basis with my HP Mini 1000 running OSX (I switch between Windows 7 and OSX on it). I can surf the net, be on iChat, have Entourage running as well as another program without a hiccup.
Actually I would have to partially disagree. In many cases you are correct, but I am running Photoshop CS4, firefox (running pandora), Thunderbird, and Digsby and am having no problems on my Mini 9. And it doesn't have any problems running flash or streaming video over the internet.
On the other hand, my friends MSI Wind or Lenovo S10 have more problems running all these. Part of the reason is only 1GB of RAM and the standard HDD.
So for me, my netbook can do all that my 15" notebook does. No it does not have a ODD, but I hardly ever use those anymore and I just create iso's if I need. All the games I would ever want to actually run on a 9" screen run fine.
Your kidding right? None of those programs are particularly intensive. I could run all of them on my 450mhz G3 Power Mac if I desired. The original Eee PC running an underclocked 900mhz Celeron (at 650mhz) could handle those programs (or equivalents), and netbooks with a 1.6ghz Atom even more so. On my Eee PC 4G I usually have Firefox, Adium, and Skype open at the same time, as well as openoffice if I'm taking notes. The only point you really have is with Flash, which in my experience runs decent on YouTube. The only time flash is really slow on me is full screen or with Hulu. Even then setting the quality to low will allow it to run decent. This is with a celeron machine also; I'd imagine the much faster Atom Netbooks could handle it just fine.
"1) Mail
2) Firefox
3) Adium
4) Entourage"
Damn son, you are *really* pushing your MBP to the limit.
@SlaterGS
You're running Photoshop on a netbook? That's jus' crazy talk! I am impressed.
Those are the network programs I have running. There are more:
5) iCal
6) iTunes
7) Word 2008
8) PowerPoint 2008
9) Transmission
10) Photoshop CS4
And it's mainly Word and Powerpoint that can make any computer chug along.
@webran61
Photoshop actually runs very well. I was surprised the first time, but it handles 50-100mb files without a problem.
Dude, you should get an Eepcif that's all you're running.
My Eeepc runs web (20-30 tabs open on 'Fox most of the time), mail, Adium, iTiunes, uTorrent and a few other things in the background with no problems. It won't run Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop or games very well (or at all...) but you're A-OK with Office, mail, net and lightweight apps.
You ever actually used one??
Umm yeah, you could be running a netbook NP, Even more so if you hackintoshed it. I on the other hand cannot due to the fact that my hands feel like they are going to fall off when i try to type on a netbook, but i got the carpal tunnel.
InterNET => NETbook
WEB => Spiders?
of course you can run all those on a Netbook
(just one at a time...)