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Posted on 02/08/2016 9:47:10 AM PST by dayglored
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So now a $10 Netbook can nag me as well as $1000 plus advanced Microsoft systems?
No Thanks and No Thanks.
I think Netbooks was Intel’s idea.
At the time (pre-tablet), customers were asking for an email-web tool that was cheap.
It turned out to be a one year, flash in the pan.
There are Linux distributions that will make the Netbook run twice as fast as it ever did with any version of Windows. Try Linux Lite for one.
Microsoft?
What is a Microsoft?
I thought that all state of the anti virus apps took care of such things..
Two years ago, I upgraded my wife’s Dell 10” netbook from Windows XP to Windows 7. A few months back, I took advantage of the Windows 10 free upgrade. The netbook finally works as advertised. Going to 10 was a good move.
The netbook form factor had so much potential, but got screwed by industry timing and politics. They were hobbled even before release, with underpowered hardware and lack of enthusiasm from MS and others. Current laptop chipsets and oled screens would make a netbook blaze, and last all day at least.
I have one that I’ve been hesitant on putting 10 on it because it was horrible with anything but Win 7 Starter.
But I guess it can’t hurt to try.
Windows 10 is the best thing that Microsoft has done in quite awhile. Mostly because of whats not in it. Microsoft stripped huge amounts of legacy code out of Windows 10 making it incompatible with things which have been long extinct. Windows 10 is actually smaller. And can run on smaller computers. It’s also safer, with far fewer holes for viruses to penetrate. Everyone should move to Windows 10. But note that Windows Edge, which replaces Internet Explore, is now the main browser. If something does not work, you will have to find Internet Explorer which is still there. And use that. I found that almost everything runs better and faster on Edge, but there are some old things that require Explore.
The browser that was included with my Win10 ‘upgrade’ sucks. Pages load slowly, the swipe to the right to go back reloads slowly... Not digging it.
Seconding this. Linux has no issues with screen resolution, and you can avoid loading out the notoriously-small netbook drives with useless bloatware. Plus, if you’ve got reasonable amounts of RAM, you can also cut the swap space on disk way back, so you don’t lose as much to the OS.
Ping
I have a netbook with a huge 10 hour battery collecting dust with XP on it.
If i was to upgrade to win10 i would have to pay for it though right?
It doesn't get as much use as it once did now that I have a free tablet from my ISP. That makes a very sweet eBook reader.
Thanks for that feedback. I was wondering.
Well, how hard is it to run Chrome?
Yeah, no freebies upgrading from XP. Maybe it might be worth finding a cheap Win7 license somewhere (depending on where you look for such things), putting that on, and -then- upgrading. Just be sure whatever version of 7 you get will allow a free upgrade.
Thanks for your reply.
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