Hi,
I am planning to buy a new netbook for my parents. This would almost exclusively be used for web chatting(video conference) and for some movie viewing as well as word processing. I enquired locally about netbook rates and the lowest price that I have seen is for Acer emachine (Rs 14750/-). This machine does not come with any OS. My questions are
1. If I load my own OS (say Win XP SP3), would it be an overload on the system considering the atom processor and also because most netbooks come with Windows starter edition?
2. I saw that the video performance was pretty ordinary in netbook. The video that I saw was an HD one, but will the performance improve for non HD (even xvid) files?
3. Are there any other cheaper netbook options that you know? 1 GB RAM and 160 GB HDD is enough.
Will appreciate any help I can get on this.
P.S: I had asked a similar question in another open thread, but did not get any replies. Hence this new thread.
I am planning to buy a new netbook for my parents. This would almost exclusively be used for web chatting(video conference) and for some movie viewing as well as word processing. I enquired locally about netbook rates and the lowest price that I have seen is for Acer emachine (Rs 14750/-). This machine does not come with any OS. My questions are
1. If I load my own OS (say Win XP SP3), would it be an overload on the system considering the atom processor and also because most netbooks come with Windows starter edition?
2. I saw that the video performance was pretty ordinary in netbook. The video that I saw was an HD one, but will the performance improve for non HD (even xvid) files?
3. Are there any other cheaper netbook options that you know? 1 GB RAM and 160 GB HDD is enough.
Will appreciate any help I can get on this.
P.S: I had asked a similar question in another open thread, but did not get any replies. Hence this new thread.