I'm in the market for a netbook for university and I'm just wondering how this stacks up against a 1.6ghz Atom? I am comparing this to the 1005 ASUS EEE. This obviously has more ram and hard drive space so thats a big plus, the CPU is my only worry.
That Celeron is not that great and it consumes 5 times more than your usual Atom N280, plus the battery included is just a 3-cell so don't expect this thing to run for more than 2 or 3 hours. I'd go with the Eee 1005HA-H, plus with €120 euros more you can upgrade the HD to 500GB and the RAM to 2GB.
Nonsense. For the stuff typical students need for study (Word, a PDF viewer, researching on the web), any netbook is absolutely fast enough, and it's also good enough for the majority of other things normal people do on a small netbook (play music, watch DVD rips, Facebook, Twitter, light photo editing etc).
Flash-heavy sites, higher-res Flash videos, HD videos and games are the only things that cause problems on an Atom-based system, and as nobody is going to use a netbook as only computer or gaming machine (or need HD video playback on a 10" screen, for that matter), that's really not a big deal imho.
Actually, high-resolution, quite a few games, and even Photoshop CS3 run pretty well on the Atom (especially the 1005). HD video and big games made after 2006 are just about the only things that are going to cause trouble.
I'd definitely go with the 1005 (upgrade to 2GB RAM), since if you were buying a computer to play games, you wouldn't buy an Inspiron 11z, either.
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I'm in the market for a netbook for university and I'm just wondering how this stacks up against a 1.6ghz Atom? I am comparing this to the 1005 ASUS EEE. This obviously has more ram and hard drive space so thats a big plus, the CPU is my only worry.
What do you guys reckon?
That Celeron is not that great and it consumes 5 times more than your usual Atom N280, plus the battery included is just a 3-cell so don't expect this thing to run for more than 2 or 3 hours.
I'd go with the Eee 1005HA-H, plus with €120 euros more you can upgrade the HD to 500GB and the RAM to 2GB.
Celeron is ALOT faster than an Atom but nowhere near as good battery life.
If you need it for work don't touch an Atom.
"If you need it for work don't touch an Atom."
Nonsense. For the stuff typical students need for study (Word, a PDF viewer, researching on the web), any netbook is absolutely fast enough, and it's also good enough for the majority of other things normal people do on a small netbook (play music, watch DVD rips, Facebook, Twitter, light photo editing etc).
Flash-heavy sites, higher-res Flash videos, HD videos and games are the only things that cause problems on an Atom-based system, and as nobody is going to use a netbook as only computer or gaming machine (or need HD video playback on a 10" screen, for that matter), that's really not a big deal imho.
Actually, high-resolution, quite a few games, and even Photoshop CS3 run pretty well on the Atom (especially the 1005). HD video and big games made after 2006 are just about the only things that are going to cause trouble.
I'd definitely go with the 1005 (upgrade to 2GB RAM), since if you were buying a computer to play games, you wouldn't buy an Inspiron 11z, either.