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[feeutfo]

just got an acer aspire one net book for £150 from comet

...but it comes wiith Mcafee security. Any recomendations...?

[CaptainZok]

Got MS security essentials on all of ours, seems fine and it's a freebie which is even better.

[feeutfo]

Cheers Captin.

its a bit clonky, i've turned off a load of crappy ad ons, but is there anything i can do to to speed it up?

should add, its got
320bb hard drive
1gb ddr3 memory
intel atom n2600 cpu

[CaptainZok]

Yep put a 2Gb stick of ram in there or however much it will take, they're painfully slow with the default 1Gb.

[feeutfo]

good man, thankyou. 

[Taxi_Driver]

yep .... my netbook had 1Gb ram in it when i bought it and xp....

its now got 2Gb and doz7 and runs fine 

[feeutfo]

Binning that Mcafee rubbish as we speak. Off for Ram tomorrow.

[CaptainZok]

Remember most netbooks only have one memory slot so you'll probably need to bin the one gig and replace it with a two. Rather than just add another gig to what you have.

[TheBoy]

Gayboy - pop it over, we can do some tests.

With Netbooks (assuming Win7), I'd recommend 2Gb and a fast SSD. Both from Crucial.

ESP essential when fitting RAM. Anyone who says overwise is talking 'dangle berries', no ifs or buts.

[TheBoy]

Although I lack good words to say about Acer

[feeutfo]

Ok. But a fast ssd?

[feeutfo]

Although I lack good words to say about Acer

£150?

[TheBoy]

Although I lack good words to say about Acer

£150?

Yeah, good price.

I suspect the ram will be around £15 delivered, and SSD - crucial m4 - about £50 upwards. Cheaper SSDs available, but shite.

[aaronjb]

I prefer OCZ to Crucial for SSDs (seem to come out a little faster in most tests) but I'll second 'fast' SSD vs. cheap SSD..

Although being a netbook does it have space for an 'actual' SSD or require one of those little PCI-e looking modules?

[TheBoy]

I prefer OCZ to Crucial for SSDs (seem to come out a little faster in most tests) but I'll second 'fast' SSD vs. cheap SSD..

Although being a netbook does it have space for an 'actual' SSD or require one of those little PCI-e looking modules?

See, OCZ do well it tests, but are universally shite in real world. We actually have a OCZ Vertex in the OOF server, and were running off it for a while, but went back to the faster conventional disks a few weeks ago.

OCZ use a class of SSD that perform well with compressible data (its actually where they get their speed from, as they are actually slower on raw throughput). Sadly, its the way SSDs are going.  Hence I recommend Crucial m4, as I know from experience, they are one of the fastest consumer SSDs out there.


As to space, SSD to replace the comventional HDD in the netbook.