[Ilugc] Request for suggestion : laptop VS netbook
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:02:03 +0100
I am relating my personal experience. Take it FWIW.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>
wrote:
I am looking for buying a laptop or netbook.
Budget : around 20 k
Looked the netbooks in a laptop shop.
They are so small with 10" screen.
Avoid, the 10" screen. It looks very nice and compact but after a
while the small foot print feels a bit cramped especially the
keyboard.
Having said that there are two HP netbooks in my household, mainly for
"on the road" usage. About a year back HP was selling it w/o an OS
and I got it got for a shade under 15K. openSUSE 11.4 detected all
devices and my sister is quite happy with it.
But, sony viao has 11.6" screen which has most wider screen in the tiny
devices.
Will the sony viao 11.6" support linux well?
I believe the SONY VAIO 11.6" comes with the AMD E-350 + Radeon GPU @
Rs. 23K. The CPU/GPU combo will need the latest version of your
favorite distro (kernel 2.6.30 or above IIRC). Please search for
compatibility before purchase.
Compaq has a laptop with the same CPU+GPU combo with a 13" screen. In
Mumbai, it was going for about 21K with Windows7 HB. It is slightly
bigger than the 10" netbooks, has a DVD writer too. The keyboard
size is comfortable. This was a high runner on my short list (I was
dumping my Acer 5545) until Toshiba came out with a Diwali special
(i5-2430, 4GB RAM, Atheros WiFi and best of all NO OS).
The usage will be browsing, openoffice, python/php coding.
I think the netbooks should be able to handle this, it depends on the
back end database and how heavily your apps will use it.
Please share your thoughts on performance/processor/RAM requirements
of netbooks.
Avoid 3GB configuration that is sold along with Windows 7 HB 32 bit
version. Make sure the 2GB configuration has 1 DIMM slot empty for
you to add additional 2GB if you do need it.
HTH
-- Arun Khan
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