Last Christmas i buyed a Netbook too, it costs 230€ and it´s from Asus.
For me it´s perfect, the akku spends my Netbook 3h live and thats amazing. And the power adapter is very small, i love my netbook. The best is, it´s fast enogh to play my emulators:)
@linuxfanman Well Ubuntu 11.04 has really matured into something that supports all hardware of this netbook right out of the box. Previous versions had trouble with the wifi and I could get it to work with a windows driver wrapper (!!!!) but this one is just a blast.
Fast, responsive and it does everything I want. Of course I apt-got quite a few emulators on it as well and most of them work full speed! Yay!
This is a decision you will not regret, Mark. I currently dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. W7 because I love the Windows Atari ST emulator Steem, and 10.04 LTS because I don't like Unity (the new Ubuntu desktop).
It will be interesting to see how you get on with Minecraft on Linux. My experience is that games do not run as well on Linux as they do Windows, mostly because of graphics drivers.
@thejoyofsticks Thanks. Say it is fairly easy changing the Unity back to regular Gnome just by selecting ' Gnome Classic' in the settings of the logon Window. Bam you're straight back to the familiar Gnome desktop we've all come to love.
The 3D hardware support is somewhat lacking and the graphics card which is in this netbook is actually one of the intel ones and it runs Minecraft even a tad faster than the Windows 7 but that may be down to less overhead on the Linux side of things.
@markvergeer Thanks for the 'Gnome Classic' heads-up, Ubuntu 11.04 has now been reinstalled!
Unfortunately, there are a few things that stop me using Linux full-time and force me to keep Win7 as a dual boot. It's not the fault of Linux, Ubuntu or the Linux community at all, but some things just don't work as well on Linux. Flash is a mess on Linux, for example (once again, not Linux or Ubuntu's fault, but Adobe's). I would love to abandon Windows completely, Linux is a much nicer experience.
@thejoyofsticks I'd have to agree with you on Flash, Video grabbing, video editing. Those things are less polished on Linux but it probably is only a matter of time before that is rectified.
@maiki60fps Same here. It would be suicide for any games company to release a game that only works on Windows 7/8! 79% of all gamers, according to Gamespot, still use XP!
@HardWarUK There is absolutely no need to upgrade if the games you play have DirectX 10.x support - XP has far less overhead than Vista. Although I have install Windows 7 on my gameroom PC instead of XP Professional and I must say it hasn't slowed down yet. My XP install always seems to slow down after about 6 months of use and I always restore an image and all is fresh and responsive again.
@maiki60fps XP is a great stable system, especially for games. I have that running on my Dell Optiplex GX270 right next to a Hackintosh (OS X 10.4.11), BeOS and Ubuntu install - there's a fifth OS I keep forgetting on there.... It is qintet-bootable system....
@SteveBenway Indeed Windows 7 pre-installed - the French version even - was a good improvement lesson for my French. You won't believe the French terminology for all sorts of things. They are very keen on making their own terminology and not borrowing from the English like most other languages do when it comes to computers.
Linux Ubuntu 11.04 is much snappier on the Netbook and it is a more workable machine.
Hey its Natty Narwhal. I do not like the new GNOME Shell, Linus Torvalds doesn't actually like it either. Mainly if i was to switch back to a dual boot it would be something using KDE or for older systems LXDE desktop enviroment.
@KieranD212 Well it could be Libre Office - which I would prefer actually. It is the one that Ubuntu 11.04 comes preinstalled with. KDE I have on there as well. But switching back to regular Gnome works best and is just a matter of selecting ' Ubuntu Classic' or ' Gnome classic' in the log-on windows setting menu. Boom back to Gnome all the way.
@shaurz Originally Microsoft wanted Starter Edition to only run 3 simultaneous applications at the same time, this means you could have hundreds of stuff installed but only run 3 of them at once. Fortunately they decided it was stupid and it never happened. BTW this is the OEM only version of Windows 7, meaning i dont think you can go out on and buy it, i think its only supplied on OEM netbooks and desktops.
@shaurz It was supposed to be limited like that but that really was too far removed from being consumer friendly. It can run more programs but you can't use Aero and there is no way to change the background image (WTF?!??). Pretty lame crippling version if you ask me. Microsoft surely isn't taking its consumers seriously when putting this kind of thing on some Netbooks.
I've got 7 Pro but don't really care for it. The only reason I changed was wireless wasn't as well supported on Ubuntu. I still may go back to an Ubuntu dual boot on this computer though :)
@MaximumRD Starter Edition sucked. It was slow and unresponsive. It also came with a lot of preinstalled software like a DVD player - the system doesn't have optical media WTF?!?? and all sorts of bloatware.
hey mark, if you find that Ubuntu gets laggy, get XFCE installed in place of GNOME. i use Xubuntu 11.04 on an 8 year old Thinkpad, and i must say it works quite fine. XFCE is a good common ground between performans/eye candy/functionality & usage of system resources (not nearly as memory or CPU intensive as GNOME is). and you can still use Compiz with it.
@daiatlus79 Thanks I will most definitely experiment with other Window Managers. I believe I used XFCE in the early days back in the early 90s on slackware....
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Last Christmas i buyed a Netbook too, it costs 230€ and it´s from Asus.
For me it´s perfect, the akku spends my Netbook 3h live and thats amazing. And the power adapter is very small, i love my netbook. The best is, it´s fast enogh to play my emulators:)
peace
Matzeschloe 5 days ago
Yea Mark. WOOT.. I dual boot every computer I own with Ubuntu and Windows using grub as my boot loader.... Enjoy :)
linuxfanman 4 months ago
@linuxfanman Well Ubuntu 11.04 has really matured into something that supports all hardware of this netbook right out of the box. Previous versions had trouble with the wifi and I could get it to work with a windows driver wrapper (!!!!) but this one is just a blast.
Fast, responsive and it does everything I want. Of course I apt-got quite a few emulators on it as well and most of them work full speed! Yay!
markvergeer 4 months ago
This is a decision you will not regret, Mark. I currently dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. W7 because I love the Windows Atari ST emulator Steem, and 10.04 LTS because I don't like Unity (the new Ubuntu desktop).
It will be interesting to see how you get on with Minecraft on Linux. My experience is that games do not run as well on Linux as they do Windows, mostly because of graphics drivers.
thejoyofsticks 5 months ago
@thejoyofsticks Thanks. Say it is fairly easy changing the Unity back to regular Gnome just by selecting ' Gnome Classic' in the settings of the logon Window. Bam you're straight back to the familiar Gnome desktop we've all come to love.
The 3D hardware support is somewhat lacking and the graphics card which is in this netbook is actually one of the intel ones and it runs Minecraft even a tad faster than the Windows 7 but that may be down to less overhead on the Linux side of things.
markvergeer 4 months ago
@markvergeer Thanks for the 'Gnome Classic' heads-up, Ubuntu 11.04 has now been reinstalled!
Unfortunately, there are a few things that stop me using Linux full-time and force me to keep Win7 as a dual boot. It's not the fault of Linux, Ubuntu or the Linux community at all, but some things just don't work as well on Linux. Flash is a mess on Linux, for example (once again, not Linux or Ubuntu's fault, but Adobe's). I would love to abandon Windows completely, Linux is a much nicer experience.
thejoyofsticks 4 months ago
@thejoyofsticks I'd have to agree with you on Flash, Video grabbing, video editing. Those things are less polished on Linux but it probably is only a matter of time before that is rectified.
markvergeer 4 months ago
I am still using XP, 10 years and have no reason to look anywhere else as far as it runs the software I need.
maiki60fps 5 months ago
@maiki60fps Same here. It would be suicide for any games company to release a game that only works on Windows 7/8! 79% of all gamers, according to Gamespot, still use XP!
HardWarUK 5 months ago
@HardWarUK There is absolutely no need to upgrade if the games you play have DirectX 10.x support - XP has far less overhead than Vista. Although I have install Windows 7 on my gameroom PC instead of XP Professional and I must say it hasn't slowed down yet. My XP install always seems to slow down after about 6 months of use and I always restore an image and all is fresh and responsive again.
markvergeer 4 months ago
@maiki60fps XP is a great stable system, especially for games. I have that running on my Dell Optiplex GX270 right next to a Hackintosh (OS X 10.4.11), BeOS and Ubuntu install - there's a fifth OS I keep forgetting on there.... It is qintet-bootable system....
markvergeer 4 months ago
The idea of netboooks running any Windoze other than XP seems pretty crazy to me.
I'm not a Linux fan, but with Windoze 7 preinstalled, I think you made the right decision there.
SteveBenway 5 months ago
@SteveBenway Indeed Windows 7 pre-installed - the French version even - was a good improvement lesson for my French. You won't believe the French terminology for all sorts of things. They are very keen on making their own terminology and not borrowing from the English like most other languages do when it comes to computers.
Linux Ubuntu 11.04 is much snappier on the Netbook and it is a more workable machine.
markvergeer 4 months ago
Ubuntu FTW, I really love that OS. :)
DLiberator78 5 months ago
@DLiberator78 I can see why
markvergeer 4 months ago
Hey its Natty Narwhal. I do not like the new GNOME Shell, Linus Torvalds doesn't actually like it either. Mainly if i was to switch back to a dual boot it would be something using KDE or for older systems LXDE desktop enviroment.
OPEN OFFICE MARK? NO LOVE FOR LIBRE OFFICE :(
KieranD212 5 months ago
@KieranD212 Well it could be Libre Office - which I would prefer actually. It is the one that Ubuntu 11.04 comes preinstalled with. KDE I have on there as well. But switching back to regular Gnome works best and is just a matter of selecting ' Ubuntu Classic' or ' Gnome classic' in the log-on windows setting menu. Boom back to Gnome all the way.
markvergeer 4 months ago
Starter Edition? Is that the one that limits the number of programs you can run?
shaurz 5 months ago
@shaurz Originally Microsoft wanted Starter Edition to only run 3 simultaneous applications at the same time, this means you could have hundreds of stuff installed but only run 3 of them at once. Fortunately they decided it was stupid and it never happened. BTW this is the OEM only version of Windows 7, meaning i dont think you can go out on and buy it, i think its only supplied on OEM netbooks and desktops.
KieranD212 5 months ago
@shaurz It was supposed to be limited like that but that really was too far removed from being consumer friendly. It can run more programs but you can't use Aero and there is no way to change the background image (WTF?!??). Pretty lame crippling version if you ask me. Microsoft surely isn't taking its consumers seriously when putting this kind of thing on some Netbooks.
markvergeer 4 months ago
I've got 7 Pro but don't really care for it. The only reason I changed was wireless wasn't as well supported on Ubuntu. I still may go back to an Ubuntu dual boot on this computer though :)
atarileaf 5 months ago
I was on the edge of my seat the entire time!
Chubzdoomer 5 months ago
@Chubzdoomer Hope you didn't fall of! :)
markvergeer 4 months ago
YAY, UBUNTU :D
masterkeaton1000 5 months ago
@masterkeaton1000 Cool huh?
markvergeer 4 months ago
@markvergeer Hella cool!
masterkeaton1000 4 months ago
Yeah even as a Windows 7 fan the starter edition is not the greatest.
MaximumRD 5 months ago
@MaximumRD Starter Edition sucked. It was slow and unresponsive. It also came with a lot of preinstalled software like a DVD player - the system doesn't have optical media WTF?!?? and all sorts of bloatware.
markvergeer 4 months ago
hey mark, if you find that Ubuntu gets laggy, get XFCE installed in place of GNOME. i use Xubuntu 11.04 on an 8 year old Thinkpad, and i must say it works quite fine. XFCE is a good common ground between performans/eye candy/functionality & usage of system resources (not nearly as memory or CPU intensive as GNOME is). and you can still use Compiz with it.
daiatlus79 5 months ago
@daiatlus79 Thanks I will most definitely experiment with other Window Managers. I believe I used XFCE in the early days back in the early 90s on slackware....
markvergeer 4 months ago
@markvergeer its come a long way!!!
daiatlus79 4 months ago