Must be built down to a price.

Post #401,524 by static 5/6/15 2:56:11 AM Reply	Must be built down to a price. 1Gb Ram? Avoid Chrome and FireFox, for starters. And I wouldn't run an email program against a large mailbox, though Windows Mail program is hilariously bad at that anyway. And I'd try not to drop it, either. Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #401,526 by pwhysall 5/6/15 7:15:26 AM 5/6/15 7:16:04 AM Reply	It's actually pretty well-built. Of course at £90 it's built down to a price. But Windows 8.1 mail manages just fine with my mail, which goes back just about forevar. I avoid Chrome and Firefox. I avoid the former because all the raw JavaScript speed in the world doesn't help if I can start IE, read the page I wanted, and close it again in the time it takes Chrome to start up. Also, yeah. Chrome lurrrrve de RAM. I lost track of Firefox a while back. Is it even still a thing? It's actually remarkable how good it is with 1GB of RAM. An Android 4/5 device with that much memory would be a complete shitshow. This thing is actually useable. ETA: I cannot overstate how bad the cameras are. 2MP front and rear. Edited by pwhysall May 6, 2015, 07:16:04 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #401,541 by lincoln 5/6/15 1:32:11 PM Reply	Re: It's actually pretty well-built. I lost track of Firefox a while back. Is it even still a thing? Yes it is, but they're determined to keep making it worse over time: http://forum.iwethey.org/forum/post/399408/ Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. - - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897
Post #401,550 by static 5/7/15 1:06:35 AM Reply	Interesting. I spent AU$600 on a Windows 8 small laptop exactly 12 months ago. I think it's 2Gb of RAM. It feels cheap, the trackpad has issues and it is just slow enough to make you say "I wish it were faster". Oddly, I happened to discover that it's one of Asus' most reliable laptops. The mail thing is interesting. I tried pointing Windows Mail to my IMAP server which sits on an EC2 instance. It's got 25,000+ messages in Inbox and it just doesn't cope with that. I point Opera Mail at it and it slurps it all up easily. Maybe it just doesn't like IMAP all that well. Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/

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