Re: Recommendation for a netbook
Am Montag, 8. Februar 2021, 12:29:25 CET schrieb Joe:
Hi,
well IMHO it depends, what you are going to do with it.
As you might know, those netbooks are not the fastest ones, but maybe boot
time is not so important, as you can use suspend-to-ram.
For me personally there are some things important for me, as I am using it for
network troubleshooting on the road. So these things are important for me:
1. Battery time. My EEEPC has 8 hours, which is enough for a single day.
2. MUST run linux. Mine is running Debian/testing for normal work.
3. MUST be able, to boot livefile systems from an sd-card (NOT USB-Stick). I
have about 24 different livefiles bootable from sd-card, each for special
purposes. SD-Card, because an USB-Stick can be broken, if someone does not pay
attention.
4. MUST have an Atheros wireless card. These are able to switch into monitor
mode and can do other things, which other wireless cards are not be able to
do.
5. Size should not be greater than 10 inch, because at most customers there is
often not much space for bigger notebooks on the desktop.
6. Every hardware, especially graphics card and touchpad should be supported
by linux. Sound should do also.
7. Multimedia should work smoothly on it. My EEEPC, which is 1,666GHz and with
an Intel I945 graphic chip, is running videos without flickering when using
smplayer. VLC does not work well, as acceleration is needed and since there is
no more OpenGL-driver since some years, VLC has gone slow. (Yes, I know, I 945
does not support opengl, but there was a software solution some years ago,
which was working very well. This is sadly no more supported and not
compatible to actual xorg.)
8. MUST have a real and exchangable harddrive (SATA) built in, so that you can
exchange it with a bigger one. Mine was exchanged now the second time, first
from SATA to SSD, now to another SSD as the former one was defective.
So, might be some more points, but I hope this helps.
Best regards
Hans
Reply to: