Find me a net book? Oh wait.

[vampist]

Vampist, did you upgrade it to 2 gigs of Memory or leave it at the stock 1 gig? Because if you havent its well worth the upgrade. They run awesome on 2 gigs and its a cheap upgrade

Ordered the 2 gig ram before the netbook got to my house

 

[tom-knox]

What graphic package do you run on there?

 

[Half Evil]

Well, someone recommend me one then

 

[vampist]

What graphic package do you run on there?

I use PS CS2. I would not bother with above CS2. CS3+ are very demanding and so over rated..
CS2 runs smoothly even on this netbook. the Asus eee 1000HE.

 

[Half Evil]

Oh, and if someone recommends me one, lets keep it under 400. Under 500 max.

 

[vampist]

Oh, and if someone recommends me one, lets keep it under 400. Under 500 max.

Link
Enjoy.

 

[Half Evil]

Nice, thanks.

 

[freestyler105]

I also hear the Acer Aspire Ones are nice.


I bought the original Eee PC when it first came out, and it had some variant of Linux on it. The original Eee PCs weren't very fast (Something like a 500 MHz processor) but I put XP lite on it, and it ran very well.

 

[Half Evil]

Think there is a 60 dollar performance difference between the N270 to the N280?

I found two Asus ones that are the exact same, but 60 dollar price difference because of the processors.

 

[Teny]

PC Mark 05 CPU Test (higher is better)
N280 - N270
1479 - 1444 PC Mark 05 CPU Points

SiSoft Sandra Processor Arithmetic & Multimedia (higher is better)
N280 - N270
4.06 - 3.89 (GIPS) Dhrystone ALU
3.46 - 3.33 (GFLOPS) Whetstone iSSE3
8.68 - 8.31 (MPixel/s) Int x8 iSSSE3
6.84 - 6.56 (MPixel/s) Float x4 iSSE2
1.27 - 1.22 (MPixel/s) Double x2 iSSE2

Hyper PI & wPrime (lower time is better)
N280 - N270
01m 31s - 01m 35s for 1M digits of PI calculated in Hyper PI
117.171 - 122.344 seconds for 32M in wPrime

As you can see, differences between the Intel Atom N280 and N270 are minor, which is expected since the CPUs are very similar. Even N280's faster FSB doesn't help much in benchmarks, as well as in real world use. I haven't noticed any difference in responsiveness and speed when using the netbooks for web surfing, e-mail checking or watching Youtube videos.

Source -
Review: Intel Atom N280 vs N270 Benchmarks
N280 vs. N270 chart

Not worth the $60 IMO.