tiguy99

Thew mouse is working good. Its a little touchy but def workable. The guy told me he upgraded the drivers yesterday so I can do two finger scrolling. That part's pretty cool. I also just picked up an 8GB flash drive so I can load Snow Leopard over the weekend
yeahhhh boyyyyy

tiguy99

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/gene...-6-2-a-16.html

Hackers win

Snow Leopard here I come!!!!

tiguy99

So I finally loaded Snow Leopard and Windows 7 ultimate this weekend on the 10V....lemme say this....the install process is a %$#$%# and very time consuming if you're setting up the dual boot option like I did.

none the less its done and the system's running very quick due to the 2GB ram upgrade & 250GB HD. I used instructions found on mydellmini for the OS install and now have my 10V dual booting into either O.S I chose @ startup. I even updated to the latest OSX update today with no problems.

I love this lil computer and have already started getting tons of complements the different places its been the last couple days....

Anyone who has any questions, feel free to ask. I plan on doing the glowing logo mod next but that won't be for a while.

Doom878

I have to replace my PC soon as it's getting stuck. Wanted to get a laptop but if a netbook for much cheaper and I'm not a gamer should I go this route. Wife plays the farmville BS on facebook. I should be able to run most Windows programs right?

tiguy99

For the most part yes. However, if you do the dual boot option, you can install Windows XP, Vista or 7 on there as well and still make use of your windows exclusive apps. I don't know why I didn't do this sooner.

There are a few hackint0sh friendly notebooks out there....make sure you find the right kind. Here's a list to get you started

http://gizmodo.com/5325775/the-state...tbooks-to-hack

Add the new Sony Viao W to the list as well

Doom878

Thanks for the info. I shoulda specified that I didn't need a Mac OS.

tiguy99

Cool! Someone on the street just offered to buy my computer a lil while ago lol

sho_nuff1997

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$279 for a Mini 10v

http://dealnews.com/Dell-Inspiron-Mi...d-/344558.html

Doom878

I just got a E-Machines Laptop from Best Buy on sale this week for $280. 15" Celeron M900 250GB HDD

iTimmy

15" is pretty big to be thought of as a netbook, most netbooks are 10.1" monitor or lower.

Whiskers

Im trying to give away an EEE PC 900...

sho_nuff1997

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Did your muppet get a hold of it?

Whiskers

No, my mother did...

sho_nuff1997

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Pics or bs.

Whiskers

pics of me mom?

Doom878

Yeah I'm posting it because for a little more you get a full pledged laptop. Netbooks don't work for me since I have internet on my phone and can watch You Tube. Some might fall in that category.

sho_nuff1997

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Netbook after your mom got a hold of it.

Whiskers

Its a EEE PC 901 (UK version, but works fine in the US). I installed Windows 7 on it and it works, but blue screens (think because of heat). If anyone wants it, $100 shipped.

bigman

i've had my MSI wind for over 2 years now and if it broke tomorrow, i'd be ok. It has paid for itself 10 times over. It's an amazing machine and does what i need it to do.

sho_nuff1997

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How often does it blue screen?

Whiskers

Haven't used it enough to tell. Im sure if you reload XP or Linux on it, its fine...I just don't want to buy an external drive to do it and I failed too many times using the USB boot. Windows 7 has a utility to copy the ISO to USB, which worked, but it was too big for the 4GB primary drive so I needed to use the secondary 8GB drive, which is slower. Any case, if you want a machine to play with, you can have it for $100...

sho_nuff1997

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Tempting. I've been thinking about a hackintosh, but the wifi on that isn't compatible with OSX.

brizey

Asus 1201N is a little less than $500 and has the new dual core Atom and ION. I've seen youtube vids of people running FPS games on it. It can do 1080p on its HDMI.

I figure in a year there will be $400 netbooks with DX11 GPU's (ION2 maybe?). Crazy.

stogie1020

Very happy with my Lenovo S10 running:

XP Pro
Win7
Ubuntu
Helix

mcflyguy24

I'm looking to get an Asus Eee Pc 1005 since they are less than $300 right now on newegg. I need one of these since I don't own a laptop and I'm gonna stuck in a hotel for three weeks.

mdkxtreme

Hey guys, how good are the Atom processor when playing youtube videos?

#1 STUNNA

they can handle standard def full screen but not hi-def. There's an update coming to Flash that will offload the video to the graphics processor and that will make everything ok. The flash is version 10.1 but it's still in beta.

Shadzilla

What about this broadcom crystal hd accelerator thingy that I've been reading about. Is it worth waiting for or should I go ahead and buy now? I've been interested in the Asus eee pc 1005pe, but the 1005pr (with the broadcom) will be available shortly.

#1 STUNNA

If you're gonna watch videos then the Broadcom will help. It would probably give you better battery life for videos. It's also used to handle flash video with flash 10.1

link to get flash beta in the article below

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/f...gma-500-and-a/

wrxyboy

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thinking about getting one now that they are getting fairly cheap but i want to know from those who have netbooks how their experience is so far. This will be mainly for surfing the web, word processing, excel and occasional movie watching. I have a 17" laptop now but packing it up and weight is really getting to me

stogie1020

Very well worth it IMO.

The advantages far outweigh the small keyboard and relatively underpowered processor.

I can't believe I am saying this, but have you looked at the I-Pad as well?

wrxyboy

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to be honest i was really looking into one but, for the price and data space it just doesnt make much sense to me. Plus i know the future wifey will want to use the netbook while we are out and about so this something she wouldnt give me a hard time about why i spent money on it.

ChodTheWacko

I'm almost definitely getting a netbook + a foxconn mobile drive xxs (or maybe a toughdrive) for my next trip. My current hard drive + external drive bay are WAY too heavy and clunky.

- Frank

wackjum

I love my Netbook (a Dell Mini 10v). Since getting it, I have not touched my full size laptop at all. My only advice would be to get a model with hardware accelerated HD video. I didn't, and watching movies can be borderline jittery.

brizey

If you are willing to pay, the N330 with ION netbooks can do HD video. Example: Asus 1201N. ION2 is right around the corner, too.

Dr. Colorado

How do you load movies to your netbook? I have the HP2140 and an external HD.

nj2pa2nc

I also have a 17" laptop (Toshiba) that got to be a pain to carry around. I travel a lot so I bought a acer 10.1 netbook from walmart for $289.00. It is good for taking it with you.

wrxyboy

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Yeah at 1080p the video is very jittery at 720p the video will flow smooth but will have a glitch every so often but anything less than 480p the video is excellent but can you really tell the difference on a screen that is 10.1.

I just load all the movies i want on to a 16g thumb drive and watch from that but since i will be taking a trip this upcoming tuesday, i will probably load at least 20 - 25 movies of variety for my son, fiance and i.

I really am enjoying how easy it is to get this in and out of my back pack and the long battery life as well.

stogie1020

Rick, I created a shared folder on the netbook, assigned the netbook and my home desktop to the same workgroup, and just copy ISO files (or Mpeg/AVI) over to the shared folder via the network.

I mount the ISO files with Daemon tools and play it like the DVD is right in the drive that doesn't exist!

Dr. Colorado

OK, I'm reading this like you would read one of my medical journals Just PM me the "Idiot's guide to burning movies to netbook" por favor