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post #1 of 8
6/20/09 at 10:10am
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Hi all,

I am currently using a laptop running on Intel Centrino 1.8ghz with 1gb ram. But is looking at purchasing a netbook Acer Aspire One or Lenovo S10. nBoth running N270 Atom processor and has 1Gb ram.

My question is...has anyone tried either of the netbooks and if so, is it suitable for running application such as Adobe Photoshop, windows, freehand?

Thanks for any feedback.

Cheers,
Roi
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post #2 of 8
6/20/09 at 10:35am
Yes you can, but stay away from the SSD variant. It is not doing so well (slow) from the feedback and testing of NBF users.

cheers ...
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post #3 of 8
6/20/09 at 10:38am
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The ones I've been quoted is using normal 2.5" hdd just that ram is maxed out at 1gb and its N270 cpu. and I do a bit of work on the adobe applics. so a little worried if its able to handle the workload. Is there a huge difference between the n270 and 280?
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post #4 of 8
6/20/09 at 11:13am
Just a bit more of gHZ (1.66 vs 1.6) but you do have a better FSB (667 vs 533) and GN40 chipset instead of the GMA 950.

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post #5 of 8
6/29/09 at 12:38pm
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Just a bit more of gHZ (1.66 vs 1.6) but you do have a better FSB (667 vs 533) and GN40 chipset instead of the GMA 950.

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Although it's an improvement, it wouldn't merit anymore than about $50 considering performance. I would stay away from the Solid State Drives as it was already mentioned
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post #6 of 8
1/6/10 at 4:17pm
I've tried both. Photoshop will run on these computers but it'll be extremely slow. Even GIMP is slow. I'd recommend going for the N280 processor which is at least faster and stronger.
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post #7 of 8
1/6/10 at 4:39pm
I have a Samsung N130 with a N270... Runs paint and photoshop fine, but not blindingly fast, but it is a netbook... To improve things stick in 2Gbs of RAM to any netbook (apart from EEEPC 900's with the SSD running Xandros - none work).. To make things even faster, stick eeubuntu on instead of any M$ product - yes you'll lose the adobe, but theres plenty of freeware that does the same... Look at a netbook for doing just light work, ie netsurfing, listening to music, office stuff... I would not recommend Lenovo, HP on the netbook front.. Acer ain't bad, my samsung is good.. LG (MSI) though is the best one I have used - clear screen, best netbook keyboard, light and good on the battery...
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post #8 of 8
1/6/10 at 8:20pm
I tried a netbook (in my sig) thinking the size would make up for the underpoweredness and when I'm in a writing mood, it does, but the rest of the time the 1024x600 res just annoys my eyes to much for me to use it, especially when all my other lappies (not to mention my desktops!) have much higher resolutions. You don't realize the crampedness of IE or Firefox until the space is gone. Having to sidescroll is just annoying.

Oh and I bought it for MS Office so speed wasn't an issue, but if you are doing any kind of photo manipulation, I would definitely look at small notebooks and not netbooks. The gimp CPU and GPU will definitely cost you in productivity/time & $$$ down the road.
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