Reply to: Office professional on a netbook?

[mailric]

NC10 has been running fine for a week now... office 2007 running good, although previous post about the screen getting a bit busy when in Outlook is true. I'm running personal calendar and client calendar at same time too so thats double trouble!

I seem to be leaning over my desk a little more now! But its a whole lot easier on the train when sitting opposite some bloke with a 19" laptop, cock.

[LazyFan]

The NC10 will run Office 2007 fine, however Outlook finds the screen a bit tight on real estate. But it's usuable. Word and the rest are fine.

Also the Asus 901 with a new O/S install of Easy Peasy from www.geteasypeasy.com uses the latest OpenOffice. And this handles MS Office documents very well.

You should upgrade memory as it only costs about £20 to get a 2GB DDR2 SO-DIMM ram stick. On both machines it is very easy to do. I used Corsair 2GB Value SO-DIMM DDR2 stick in both machines.

[AtW]

Thanks Atw

That's AtW!

[MikeC1408]

It's fast enough for VS 2008 - also office 2003 is fine too (would not use 2007 even if it run on it).

Thanks Atw

[Fred Bloggs]

There is only space for one stick. I bought the machine and upgrade at the same time - memory is cheap.

Sure, thanks.

[Fred Bloggs]

Try it first with 1 GB before committing yourself to 2 GB option. I think it uses DDR2 and those 2 GB sticks are very cheap now anyway.

Thanks, but I do like to max the RAM on any machine I buy, it's so cheap to do so now anyway and the performance/stability increase is worth it, usually.

[Coalman]

Anyone know if you upgrade the Samsung from 1Gb to 2Gb by fitting another 1Gb stick or by replacing the original 1Gb with a 2Gb stick? Thanks.

There is only space for one stick. I bought the machine and upgrade at the same time - memory is cheap.

[AtW]

Try it first with 1 GB before committing yourself to 2 GB option. I think it uses DDR2 and those 2 GB sticks are very cheap now anyway.

[Fred Bloggs]

Cheers AtW.

[AtW]

I am pretty sure netbook mobos use just one stick, but 2 GB sticks are cheap these days, I've just had 6 delivered yesterday for new SKA server...

XP Home does not have a lot of things that use up memory, I find that 1 GB is fine.

[Fred Bloggs]

Anyone know if you upgrade the Samsung from 1Gb to 2Gb by fitting another 1Gb stick or by replacing the original 1Gb with a 2Gb stick? Thanks.

[AtW]

Will be using it for a bit of dev work, anyone tried this, if so can the Intel Atom handle it.

It's fast enough for VS 2008 - also office 2003 is fine too (would not use 2007 even if it run on it).

[b0redom]

I've installed OSX on a Dell Mini 9 with 2GB of RAM. Currently developing iPhone apps on it, and it works fine. I would say anything officey would be easily handled.

[MikeC1408]

I'm thinking of getting one of these.

Will be using it for a bit of dev work, anyone tried this, if so can the Intel Atom handle it.

Mainly a bit of web stuff using MacroMedia and Access/Excel VBA.

Thanks

[AtW]

I've got NC10 and it's excellent - just install Office 2003 and you will be fine: XP with 1 GB of RAM makes up for snappy machine.