Office professional on a netbook?

[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

[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.

[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).

[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]

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]

Cheers AtW.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Fred Bloggs]

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

Sure, thanks.