wmrcomputers
Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
Anyone thinking of buying the acer aspire one at £199 (available allover the place including PC world), with the thought of loading Windows XP onto the 8Gb SDD, READ ON!!!!
Advised a mate to purchase as it's a good spec 1.5GHz Atom Processor etc, and a useable screen size, webcam and all to boot.
Comes supplied with a Linux system installed and can comfortably accomodate XP instead.
The problem lies with the SDD. It can read files super fast (windows boots in about 15 seconds), but due to the way Windows works it can't handle the constant file writes back to the SDD and it slows down to hell!!!
There is a way around this by using something called EFW (Enhanced File Write), which uses some of the RAM rather than writing back to the hard drive, and then you can choose to commit all recent changes (saved files, installed progs, etc) before shutting down Windows. The good point is that if you hit on a virus etc, you just restart and its like nothing ever happened!
Anyone looking for a budget notebook for XP, it can run at very good speeds but you'll need to know your stuff to do it (or ask me for help to set it all up)
ANYONE INTERESTED PM ME
They do a version with 120Gb SATA hard drive for a bit more dosh which doesnt need the mod, but obviously it becomes a price more expected with better sized systems then.
Hope this info is of help to someone, thought I'd share it just incase anyone is considering buying one.
PS - They are great especially for the kids, allthough set up correctly they're fine for grown ups too as long as you're eye sight isn't too bad
Advised a mate to purchase as it's a good spec 1.5GHz Atom Processor etc, and a useable screen size, webcam and all to boot.
Comes supplied with a Linux system installed and can comfortably accomodate XP instead.
The problem lies with the SDD. It can read files super fast (windows boots in about 15 seconds), but due to the way Windows works it can't handle the constant file writes back to the SDD and it slows down to hell!!!
There is a way around this by using something called EFW (Enhanced File Write), which uses some of the RAM rather than writing back to the hard drive, and then you can choose to commit all recent changes (saved files, installed progs, etc) before shutting down Windows. The good point is that if you hit on a virus etc, you just restart and its like nothing ever happened!
Anyone looking for a budget notebook for XP, it can run at very good speeds but you'll need to know your stuff to do it (or ask me for help to set it all up)
ANYONE INTERESTED PM ME
They do a version with 120Gb SATA hard drive for a bit more dosh which doesnt need the mod, but obviously it becomes a price more expected with better sized systems then.
Hope this info is of help to someone, thought I'd share it just incase anyone is considering buying one.
PS - They are great especially for the kids, allthough set up correctly they're fine for grown ups too as long as you're eye sight isn't too bad