Posted on Apr 08, 2010 02:50 pm
Quincysan
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Contributor Since: Nov 11, 2007
I got the Acer AspireOne netbook. I normally avoid Acer products but I found this gem on an auction website for $100, $130 after shipping. What did I get for a hun'rd bucks?
Intel Atom N270 processor with hyper threading (1.6 gHz)
1 GB DDR 5300 memory
an 8 GB integrated SSD and an additional 8 GB chip as 'storage expansion' (it fits in a media reader on the side of the computer) There's also an additional spot for media cards of many types.
When XP is installed...right off the bat I noticed performance was way iffy. This was due to the SSD. Write times were slow while read times were very fast. There's a freeware app out there called FlashFire that did an INCREDIBLE job of speeding up the SSD...think it had something to do with making memory handle all caching vs the SSD. I had a few other plans to speed up this system...but that one app helped so much I don't think I'll mess around with the rest.
I know this is kind of random and not very HRC...but I figured Dan, pjk, Cpt, and J-bot might be interested.
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