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Re: "Netbook" advice Thanks all for the input. That is great info.
You have to yank the mobo to change the RAM. Yikes!
I'm going WinXP with the biggest SATA drive. We'll see how she performs.
And FIOS Dan: I thought that the SSD's were always smoking fast compared to hard drives in the read area, but most SSD's lagged behind in the write area (unless you bought a kicks ass high $ SSD). But I keep reading in Maximum PC about some instruction that the SSD manufacturers are including on the SSD controller board(?) that greatly speeds up the writes to the SSD. I tried to find the explanation about this, but can't find it.
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Redondo Beach, CA | said by 45071419:I thought that the SSD's were always smoking fast compared to hard drives in the read area, but most SSD's lagged behind in the write area... That is more accurate than the way I phrased it. Way to go.
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said by 45071419:You have to yank the mobo to change the RAM. Yikes! I'm going WinXP with the biggest SATA drive. We'll see how she performs. The "good" news is that if you are going with Win XP, then there is no need to tear the poor sucker apart to play with the ram!
With Win XP, you will glean no worthwhile performance bounce by upgrading from 1gb ram to 2gb.
If upgrading ram is however a desire, then i would absolutely not go with the Dell Mini10V. There are entirely too many netbooks with otherwise identical specs! If the 1gb meets your needs, then the Mini 10V is as good as the others (not better, they are all more similar than not), but not if you are going to be playing with the ram...in that case get one with an easier ram access!
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