J0sie wrote:
Now if you are just buying the netbook for CR travel only, then I would agree that is a better choice.
I'm confused. Isn't that EXACTLY what we've been talking about? I don't think anyone was suggesting that a netbook was a substitute for your home or office desktop computer or even that laptop you lug between home and work.
Also, I don't have any idea what sort of apps you run, HOWEVER, since you say you own not one but TWO netbooks (and I can only guess how many other computing devices) AND you seem to be so heavily into the techspeak, I think it is a pretty fair guess that your computing needs go WAY beyond that of the more typical user. Sure, IF you want to push your system to the max, at that point you DO NEED the more heavy duty processing capabilities and you WILL SEE a marked difference in performance and it WILL RUN circles around the slower processor. HOWEVER, what you're failing to understand is that most guys here DON'T need anywhere near that computing capability (probably not even for their home machines).
For going on line (which is much more heavily influenced/limited by the bandwidth of your connection), running an avi or mpeg movie, working on all but the most absurdly huge xls or doc files, or just playing some game like Warcraft or Call of Duty (ie the sorts of things most guys would be using a computer for during their vacations in CR), I seriously doubt that most people would notice much if any difference in performance (unless they were running ALL those apps at once, but why would anyone need to do that?
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Downloading bittorrents? Sure, I suppose even some non-gearheads might be into that and might do that on their PC's
at HOME. However, as I said before, that is likely to be as limited or more so by the speed of your internet connection when you're
in places like CR (which again is what we've been talking about) as it will be by your "bus speed". More significantly, even IF your downloads got more clogged up on a netbook (to be honest I've never really bothered to try it), why would anyone ever want, need or try to do that on a portable TRAVEL computer for the 1-2 weeks they're in CR?
I mean, IMHO, you'd have to be an unbelievable d/l junkie not to be able to leave that sort of activity behind on your home machine for the couple of weeks you're in CR. Using a NETBOOK for heavy downloads makes as much sense as packing a DESKTOP PC to take with you on vacation.
So you computer geeks can shoptalk about overclocking, bit-torrent d/l's and esoteric O/S's all you want but it is all so much technical gobbledy-gook to the average would-be netbook buyer seeking advice here (ie MOST CRTers). Like you said Win XP will be around for a long time and works perfectly adequately. More significantly than that, all that tech tweaking and bleeding edge stuff is really completely irrelevant for the more typical users. If you techies think you're impressing each other or anyone else with your talk, I really don't see the point. Those of us who understand what you're referring to, really don't need anyone else's comments here to assess the merits of netbooks for themselves and, more importantly, those who DON'T understand it will only be unnecessarily confused by the blather. You computer freaks should keep that in mind as this is a CR mongering and travel forum not a tech discussion site.
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Put like that, it does seem like an expensive extravagance. I guess some of us just get seduced by the appeal of these little electronic toys and don't think it through like that. OTOH, if we have the funds (and keep in mind prices on these things are coming down all the time) and we feel we get enough utility and enjoyment out of these things during those 1-2 weeks 3-4 times a year, then maybe they still might be worthwhile even if they collect dust the other 80-90% of the year.
It's quite travel-friendly--use a backpack.
