Hi,
I am planning to get a HP Mini 1000TU as I saw a good deal and its very portable. But I hear its mainly good for browsing the net and doing word processing. Should I choose to install IDE like Netbeans and Eclipse and powerful anti-viruses like BitDefender any chance it'll start to hog up the speed and power and become very sluggish quickly?
Is netbook good for programming?
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Re: Is netbook good for programming?
If it's a single core atom machine then yes it will.
You might be able to get away with it if it is a dual core atom, and has plenty of RAM.
Dan
You might be able to get away with it if it is a dual core atom, and has plenty of RAM.
Dan
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Re: Is netbook good for programming?
Taepdong1101 wrote:Hi,
I am planning to get a HP Mini 1000TU as I saw a good deal and its very portable. But I hear its mainly good for browsing the net and doing word processing. Should I choose to install IDE like Netbeans and Eclipse and powerful anti-viruses like BitDefender any chance it'll start to hog up the speed and power and become very sluggish quickly?
Neither a dual or single core atom will not be good for programming. Go for a normal dual core. Just get a 13 inch laptop if you want portability with at least 2GB of Ram.
Re: Is netbook good for programming?
Actually, I use Visual Studio 2008 on my Eee and performance isn't too bad. I'd imagine Netbeans shouldn't be any worse. Screen size/resolution is a bit small for this purpose though
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Re: Is netbook good for programming?
define programming, the type of stuff I do, it maxes a quad out easily. So I guess it depends what you are doing