{"id":91,"date":"2009-10-02T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/bioit\/?p=91"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T22:30:13","slug":"taking-it-to-netbook-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/taking-it-to-netbook-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking it to Netbook City!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is a Netbook<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Netbooks are the term applied to ultra portable laptop computers which in turn come with a low price tag; typically, under $400.\u00a0 The low price means that these devices are comparably underpowered for the operations a more expensive “laptop” or desktop computer could typically handle.\u00a0 The ultra portable part means that these devices are very small, usually a 10″ screen or even smaller.\u00a0 Powered by an Intel Atom<\/a> processor, these low power chips are great for battery life – as some netbook specifications boast 10+ hours of life on a single charge.\u00a0 These devices are great for Internet, photo and video viewing, social networking, and basic applications.\u00a0 Just don’t expect to do anything heavy like Photoshop or video editing.<\/p>\n

\"1005ha\"<\/p>\n

I am aware of at least a few of these devices in the building – and anticipate more.\u00a0 In fact, I just recently picked up an Asus 1005HA model (shown above).\u00a0 This $300 machine is replacing an aging Apple Powerbook G4 12″.\u00a0 A netbook was attractive to me because of its ultra-portability, long battery life, and low purchase price.\u00a0 For my purposes I will be running Windows 7 32bit RC and Ubuntu Linux Netbook Remix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It took me only a couple of hours to follow these dual booting directions (http:\/\/www.bauer-power.net\/2009\/06\/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu.html<\/a>).\u00a0 I use the Windows 7 side for the majority of my work on this device – Word, Excel, and web browsing.\u00a0 The Ubuntu side is available so that I can program of course.<\/p>\n

The important thing to remember about these little devices is that they are UNDERPOWERED.\u00a0 Just like any low cost traditional laptop or cheap desktop setup – they are noticably slower when doing anything other than browsing the web and using services or resources that exist on the web.\u00a0 However, I would say that close to 90% of what I do on computers happens within a web browser.\u00a0 E-mail, Social Networking, Netflix – these services all exist in the “Cloud” – and with more and more services popping up online, netbooks seem like a good and affordable way to access these resources from wherever you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is a Netbook? Netbooks are the term applied to ultra portable laptop computers which in turn come with a low price tag; typically, under $400.\u00a0 The low price means that these devices are comparably underpowered for the operations a more expensive “laptop” or desktop computer could typically handle.\u00a0 The ultra portable part means that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-cnsit","category-the-cloud","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}