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I officially Hate my NetBook

by John Cabral
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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
#hate #netbook #officially
  • Profile picture of the author getsmartt
    I would try wiping the system clean and re-installing windows
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    • Profile picture of the author John Cabral
      Originally Posted by getsmartt View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author jayveen
      Originally Posted by hotftuna View Post

      "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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
    My wife loves her Netbook. Same one, too. FF is pretty damn fast on hers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pat Ordenes
    buy a mac.
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    • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
      Originally Posted by Pat Ordenes View Post

      buy a mac.
      How about we just turn this into a Mac VS Windows thread. Let's just get it over with
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  • Profile picture of the author Loren Woirhaye
    You could install EasyPeasy Linux on a flash drive. Only takes
    up a couple of Gigs. Pretty stable on my netbook.
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    • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
      Originally Posted by Loren Woirhaye View Post

      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?
      Originally Posted by Pat Ordenes View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author DrewG
    Hmmm that sounds odd. Maybe like someone suggested above, a clean install of an operating system might help.

    I really wanna get a netbook.
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  • Profile picture of the author hotftuna
    "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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    • Profile picture of the author Wakunahum
      Check your plugins on your browsers.

      Check to see if your flash player or java functionality is somehow buggy on your specific netbook.
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  • Profile picture of the author J. Barry Mandel
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author John Cabral
    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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