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- Feb 14, 2003
I was looking on the Dell site (I have a $250 gift certificate I got through a credit card special offer, so I have to get a Dell) and they offer both a netbook and a few notebooks.
My question is what people think of the $350ish netbooks with the Intel Atom processor. Are they powerful enough to do much, or will I be constantly frustrated by an underpowered cpu, small screen, etc? I'm not looking to game, but I want to be able to look at websites, check email easily, and have office apps and maybe multimedia apps (not video editing, more like listening to mp3's) without a lot of pauses and delays.
Anyone have any experience?
I'll run some form of Linux.
The ones I'm looking at are on www.dell.com/ubuntu
Mostly looking at either the netbook or the studio 15 laptop.
My question is what people think of the $350ish netbooks with the Intel Atom processor. Are they powerful enough to do much, or will I be constantly frustrated by an underpowered cpu, small screen, etc? I'm not looking to game, but I want to be able to look at websites, check email easily, and have office apps and maybe multimedia apps (not video editing, more like listening to mp3's) without a lot of pauses and delays.
Anyone have any experience?
I'll run some form of Linux.
The ones I'm looking at are on www.dell.com/ubuntu
Mostly looking at either the netbook or the studio 15 laptop.