The Netbook Thread

[Zoot]

My new Mini10v is on it's way to me today. Pretty Pink back cover!

[RiK]

My new Mini10v is on it's way to me today. Pretty Pink back cover!

Hackintosh it!

My mini9 is an awesome little OSX machine and it seems the crazy internet people have got it running on the 10v (but *not* the original Mini10) with a pretty simple install now to.

May look into getting a 10v next for another little nerd project

[DutchLlama]

Yesterday I ordered this:


Acer Ferrari One 200

It's sort of in the middle of a netbook and a notebook. It has a DVD burner, 250 Gb harddisk, 3Gb RAM and an ATI graphics card that will allow not too demanding DirectX 10 3D games to play. Yet it lasts 6 hours on the 6 cell battery. Perfect for in flight or on a long trip.

I'm not too thrilled about the Ferrari red lid, but then I generally don't care much about design.

Now I have to sell some stuff to fill the gap in my bank account. At 549 euros it isn't that expensive but it's still a lot of money to me.

[DutchLlama]

Edit: I'm mistaken. Doesn't have a DVD burner. Still it's not that necessary, I can use an external one.

Also the pic doesn't work, so here's another one.

[Firefox]

At first I dismissed this Kohjinsha prototype as a novelty:



... but it's been growing on me. I think it'd be perfect traveling professionals: single-screen mode for ordinary netbook use, and dual-screen mode for when you're plugged into the mains on site / in a hotel and want to get some serious work done.

It's Athlon Neo/ATI graphics -powered too, so it should have a reasonable amount of poke.

[DutchLlama]

At first I dismissed this Kohjinsha prototype as a novelty:



... but it's been growing on me. I think it'd be perfect traveling professionals: single-screen mode for ordinary netbook use, and dual-screen mode for when you're plugged into the mains on site / in a hotel and want to get some serious work done.

It's Athlon Neo/ATI graphics -powered too, so it should have a reasonable amount of poke.

That would be great for video editing or for design work!

[RiK]

Looks like 10.6.1 may be as far as we can go with the hackintoshes for now...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09 ... 0_6_2.html

[WiteWulf]

Don't be daft. There are kernels and drivers on most distros out there allowing you to run OS X on AMD hardware, for goat's sake. Compiling a kernel for Atom is no great shakes and it's already been proven that the drivers work. It's a trivial task for the ppl over at osx86project.org and one that'll be in very high demand, I would imagine.

[RiK]

Don't be daft. There are kernels and drivers on most distros out there allowing you to run OS X on AMD hardware, for goat's sake. Compiling a kernel for Atom is no great shakes and it's already been proven that the drivers work. It's a trivial task for the ppl over at osx86project.org and one that'll be in very high demand, I would imagine.

No doubt the crazy internet people will find a way, but it's not going to be a simple upgrade path that allows us to use software update as we can at the moment.

[Misfit]

Looks like 10.6.1 may be as far as we can go with the hackintoshes for now...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09 ... 0_6_2.html

Apparently this is wrong (for now)....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/04 ... _restored/

[Dio]

Latest bit of Aspire One success: Left4Dead dedicated server. Didn't try VS, but with 4 players on co-op pings were comfortably around the 50 point and it didn't go over 40% CPU (hardly even clocked the CPU up!).

Amusingly, loading the levels appeared to be the most stressful bit.

I was just doing that for proof that the network was up to it and was going to run the actual server on something a bit beefier, but having seen how well that went I'll give it a go for full vs once L4D2 comes out...

[Zoot]

My new Mini10v is on it's way to me today. Pretty Pink back cover!

It's here, and it's sexy

[Tred]

My new Mini10v is on it's way to me today. Pretty Pink back cover!

It's here, and it's sexy

Am thinking of getting one of these for my daughter for Christmas, are they any good?

Any other recommendations? Unfortunately, as she's a 9 year old girl I need to get a pink one!!!!

[Zoot]

My new Mini10v is on it's way to me today. Pretty Pink back cover!

It's here, and it's sexy

Am thinking of getting one of these for my daughter for Christmas, are they any good?

Any other recommendations? Unfortunately, as she's a 9 year old girl I need to get a pink one!!!!

Well, I love mine. It is, however, having problems playing stuff from BBC iPlayer at full res, but everything else is great, straight out of the box (including all other videos). I would recommend the following if you are going to get one:

1. Make sure that you get 2GB RAM fitted as standard. Mine only has 1GB and it is a bitchin' job to upgrade as the memory is internal i.e. no door, and you literally have to take the whole machine apart (removing keyboard and all sorts of jumpers) to change the memory).
2. get a 6-cell battery. Mine is giving 5 hours, even when runing DVDs from an external DVD player that is using juice from teh USB bus. Most impressive indeed.

Oh, and get a sexy pink DVD player and pink 16GB USB stick from Amazon to go with it

[Tred]

Well, I love mine. It is, however, having problems playing stuff from BBC iPlayer at full res, but everything else is great, straight out of the box (including all other videos). I would recommend the following if you are going to get one:

1. Make sure that you get 2GB RAM fitted as standard. Mine only has 1GB and it is a bitchin' job to upgrade as the memory is internal i.e. no door, and you literally have to take the whole machine apart (removing keyboard and all sorts of jumpers) to change the memory).
2. get a 6-cell battery. Mine is giving 5 hours, even when runing DVDs from an external DVD player that is using juice from teh USB bus. Most impressive indeed.

Oh, and get a sexy pink DVD player and pink 16GB USB stick from Amazon to go with it

Thanks, video playback isn't really going to be an issue. She just needs something for web and word really, I was going to buy one from the PCWorld down the road, I presume they'll only have 1gb models though. Have you found the 2GB upgrade makes a big difference performance wise?