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Does SL work in Mini Netbook?
Rakuen Hayashi
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Join date: 14 Aug 2006
Posts: 42
11-18-2009 23:12
I'm wonderint to buy a netbook for my mobile-work. Was wonder if SL could run on netbook.
Anyone ever try this before? ?

The spec of the netbook is
Atom N280,
2GB DDR2,
250GB HDD,
WiFi,
Bluetooth,
VGA NVIDIA Ion,
11.6" WXGA,
Win 7 Starter

Thank you again for your reply :)
Dante Tucker
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Join date: 8 Aug 2006
Posts: 806
11-19-2009 01:40
Unfortunately both the processor and graphics card fall far under the requirements.

It will run. But likely the world will never load, you will get 0.2 FPS and will be unable to do anything.
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Buster Sideshow
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Join date: 25 Aug 2008
Posts: 52
11-19-2009 09:26
From: Rakuen Hayashi
I'm wonderint to buy a netbook for my mobile-work. Was wonder if SL could run on netbook.
Anyone ever try this before? ?

The spec of the netbook is
Atom N280,
2GB DDR2,
250GB HDD,
WiFi,
Bluetooth,
VGA NVIDIA Ion,
11.6" WXGA,
Win 7 Starter

Thank you again for your reply :)



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Argent Stonecutter
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Posts: 20,263
11-19-2009 10:25
That's higher specs than my Mac Mini G4, and that got a whole 5FPS at times!

Side question: why the hell do they spec screens using terms like "WXGA" instead of "1024x666" or whatever that is?
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Milla Janick
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11-19-2009 10:40
That's probably going to be as good as it gets for a netbook. At least it doesn't have the dreadful Intel graphics adapter.

Don't expect miracles from any netbook. They are not high performance computers.
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Jack Abraham
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Join date: 11 Apr 2008
Posts: 113
11-19-2009 11:24
From: Argent Stonecutter
Side question: why the hell do they spec screens using terms like "WXGA" instead of "1024x666" or whatever that is?

Because it obfuscates the resolution, preventing you from knowing whether it's "crap" or "even worse crap" or "barely readable."
Boy Lane
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Join date: 8 May 2007
Posts: 690
12-02-2009 08:55
That's a pretty good netbook that should run SL in a usable fashion. The Nvidia ION graphics is basically a 9400 GPU and way better than the Intel graphics in most other models.

However looking at current prices for ION netbooks and "normal" dual core notebooks I would certainly choose the latter.
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