Linux OS on notebook pc

[Big_Daddy]

What you think of the atom proccessors notebooks? Will they run ms office, play video files, divx/avi, dvd vob files?

 

[Dub-Se7en]

have had a couple pass through my way and they're not bad little machines, they're a bit slower than the average laptop but they're not 'take the piss' slow if you get me?

 

[Big_Daddy]

have had a couple pass through my way and they're not bad little machines, they're a bit slower than the average laptop but they're not 'take the piss' slow if you get me?

What speed to they come at for the atom'z? Is 1.6ghz good? most of these come with 1gb mem, do they cope better on XP or vista?

 

[Dub-Se7en]

1.6GHz will do fine. deffo better on XP, vista is such a hog.

 

[djurny]

i'd wait for the samsung nc-20.. they are equipped with the via nano, which outperforms the single core atom (n270/n280)..
also, recently nvidia (i think) released a new graphics platform to be used in combination with the single core atom, which will make watching hd movie content possible on the atom platform..! currently i cant even watch (decode) hd content on my dual core atom..
(watch this for a side-by-side showoff between the via nano reference notebook and one of the atom equipped 'netbooks')

edit: if you can, go for xp.. if you cant, go for windows 7.. skip vista! i'm not a big fan of the software spawning from redmond, but i have to admit, they copied kde/osx pretty well!

 

[Big_Daddy]

the current atom out now, can it proccess any video files at all?

 

[Dub-Se7en]

it'll play your average .mpg, .avi files etc no prob at all

 

[Big_Daddy]

Just need it for simple task, ive got the PC to do hardcore processing,
Thanks all

 

[ugabuga]

yes you can install win on them. HDD might be a bit small though on some of them. Can add a touchscreen too which is really nice