I officially Hate my NetBook

John Cabral · 11-13-2009, 05:43 PM

Well its official I am really starting to hate my new Acer One Netbook. Seems all the browsers IE, FF And Safari suck on it.

IE has always sucked so I switched to FF 3.4 which was fine until I updated to 3.5 then it started getting slow. Today I tried Safari and first site I went too it crashed so I had to uninstall it.

This is the first time I bought a NetBook and must say I love it with the exception of browsing.

I have run both Avast and Malware Byte and system comes out clean so not sure what is going on with the browsers.

May try Chrome but I did like FF. Its working great on my laptop but I broke the LCD so now its more of a desktop :-( and reason I bought the NetBook.

Any ideas?

John

getsmartt · 11-13-2009, 05:47 PM

I would try wiping the system clean and re-installing windows

hotftuna · 11-13-2009, 05:50 PM

"Any ideas?"

Netbooks are not powerful enought to work with on big projects. Better off with a desktop or fast laptop and just take the netbook when you are on the road.

Jesus Perez · 11-13-2009, 05:56 PM

My wife loves her Netbook. Same one, too. FF is pretty damn fast on hers.

Pat Ordenes · 11-13-2009, 05:59 PM

buy a mac.

Loren Woirhaye · 11-13-2009, 06:03 PM

You could install EasyPeasy Linux on a flash drive. Only takes
up a couple of Gigs. Pretty stable on my netbook.

mojojuju · 11-13-2009, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pat Ordenes

buy a mac.

How about we just turn this into a Mac VS Windows thread. Let's just get it over with

DrewG · 11-13-2009, 06:13 PM

Hmmm that sounds odd. Maybe like someone suggested above, a clean install of an operating system might help.

I really wanna get a netbook.

jayveen · 11-13-2009, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hotftuna

"Any ideas?"

Netbooks are not powerful enought to work with on big projects. Better off with a desktop or fast laptop and just take the netbook when you are on the road.

Nope. I swear by my Netbook, and its running the same hardware as the OP. I too had awful problems with Firefox 3.5, but at home on my Linux box, and the solution was to remove all of the plugins and reinstall Firefox, adding plugins one at a time and turning off CPU hogs like certain SEO plugins until I need them.

Bottom line is, the very latest versions of Firefox 3.5 run real fast even on slow Netbooks. If yours is slow, check the plugins and like someone else said, consider a fresh install.

mojojuju · 11-13-2009, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loren Woirhaye

You could install EasyPeasy Linux on a flash drive. Only takes
up a couple of Gigs. Pretty stable on my netbook.

That's what I was thinking. Put some Linux on it. You can get EasyPeasy here.

From their web site:

Why was your awesome netbook shipped with that horrible operating system?
Your netbook is not a typical laptop, so why should you use a typical operating system? easypeasy is harder, better, faster and stronger than what came with your netbook. And did I mention it is 100% free?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pat Ordenes

buy a mac.

Forget that. You can install Mac OSX on a netbook if you so desire - like this guy did.

Only problem is that Apple recently dropped Intel Atom support for OSX, but looks like that won't be a problem for long.

hotftuna · 11-13-2009, 06:23 PM

"Nope. I swear by my Netbook"

Then again, I could be wrong. I have a dell netbook and I never use it. The small screen and slow processor just frustrate me. My desktop has two screens- 19" & 24". I'm spoiled with all that screen to work with.

Wakunahum · 11-13-2009, 06:25 PM

Check your plugins on your browsers.

Check to see if your flash player or java functionality is somehow buggy on your specific netbook.

Justin Mandel · 11-13-2009, 06:51 PM

I've had an Acer one for almost a year (I think) and all browsers work very well with it - especially FF.

I'd do a reinstall and see if that helps

John Cabral · 11-13-2009, 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by getsmartt

I would try wiping the system clean and re-installing windows

Not working on any projects just using it to browse WF etc. I have no problems with using it for anything else just browsing.

John Cabral · 11-13-2009, 07:30 PM

My Netbook is pratically brand new so I am not planning on a reinstall of O/S did do a fresh install of FF but it still acts up now and then.

Funny things was that Safari crashed on it.

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hotftuna Directory Veteran War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: South Florida Posts: 657 Thanks: 72 Thanked 65 Times in 47 Posts	Re: I officially Hate my NetBook "Nope. I swear by my Netbook" Then again, I could be wrong. I have a dell netbook and I never use it. The small screen and slow processor just frustrate me. My desktop has two screens- 19" & 24". I'm spoiled with all that screen to work with.
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John Cabral A.K.A MegaBiz War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: South Florida, USA. Posts: 1,302 Thanks: 25 Thanked 24 Times in 19 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: I officially Hate my NetBook My Netbook is pratically brand new so I am not planning on a reinstall of O/S did do a fresh install of FF but it still acts up now and then. Funny things was that Safari crashed on it.
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