One would think that it is safe to say that netbooks are here to stay. They could even dominate the laptop landscape in a couple of years.
Since their humble beginnings as cheap laptops that could be used to surf the Web, compose e-mails, do light office tasks, but not much more, they are evolving into more substantial machines.
Set against their low price and portability are limitations such as screen and keyboard size, and lack of a built-in optical drive. But perhaps the biggest differentiator between netbooks and other laptops is performance.
We know netbooks can easily handle the sort of basic tasks mentioned above, but how do they do at more rigorous tasks such as handling complex CAD applications and tasks?
Key to the performance of any PC, netbook or otherwise, are its processing parts. The vast majority of netbooks run on an Intel Atom processor and typically ship with 1GB of memory, while bigger laptops are standardizing at 3GB and 4GB now. And let's not forget that graphics components and hard drives can influence the performance of a netbook.
Do you use a netbook? We would love to hear about your experiences and as to whether you are actually using it for CAD related task.
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Posted by: pass drug test | November 07, 2009 at 01:19 AM
I'm an arquitect and I've decided to sell my old PC to buy a HP MINI netbook. AUTOCAD 2007 and Vector Works 11 runs quite good on XP, for small works even to make 3D models. I'm very satisfied with it because I can take my netbook anywheare, and a notebook seems to me unconfortable to carry to work.
When I'm at home I plug it to a 19'' monitor to work more confortable.
For rendering, such as Artlantis R, works very good.
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Posted by: Hp Used Computers | December 06, 2010 at 07:13 AM
All web content works on my Netbook. I have Adobe Flash. I have my choice of any version of Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, or many other web browsers. VLC plays any media type (audio or video) I’ve ever encountered, but if I don’t like VLC, I have my choice of many other free and open source apps.
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Posted by: netbooks | September 26, 2011 at 09:25 AM
Usually netbooks have a seperate partition that has recovery/reinstall stuff on, there should be a key prompt somewhere before your netbook tries to boot windows that'll say something like "select boot option" or "hit x to start repair" anything like that at all?
Posted by: netbooks | September 30, 2011 at 03:52 PM