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    Aspire One 120gb/XP question

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Aggie_Z, Aug 10, 2008.

  1. Aggie_Z

    Aggie_Z Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a narrow window of opportunity here to convince my wife that I need a netbook. I have heard some concerns about the ssd model and ultimately, I will put XP on whatever I get. How does XP run on the model with the 1.8" 120gb HD? Any problems with lag? I'm already aware of the issue with battery life, but that can be upgraded with a 6 cell later.
     
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  2. Rahul

    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    I have a Vaio TZ with a 100gb 1.8" HDD running XP Pro and it runs perfectly fine, I would not worry about usual performance but of course you'll notice slowdown if doing video editing on it for example.
     
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    I'm not sure how that compares to the Aspire One, different processors and all........
     
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  4. Rahul

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    I would not worry about XP on the drive, normal usage will be just fine. The Atom processor will also handle XP very well.
     
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    if you are buying the ONE as anything more than an extreemly portable REPLACEMENT for your larger laptop then you may be looking under the wrong stone...

    while i'm sure these "net books" are great machines for particular purposes, i'm also sure the only purpose one of these could serve for me would be to finish sucking away what little is left of my social life. or else turn me into a red-neck variant of a male TWITTER WHORE....

    rotlf
    twitter!!!!!!!
     
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  6. duksandfish

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    That thing should handle xp fine, going by the way simialer eee's do, as long as there are drivers, as the intel Atom is better than the celeron in my 5315, which runs vista and xp fine.
     
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  7. pin

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    had it for a couple of days.

    seems to run fine with xp and 1gb ram.
     
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