The snails power of a mini laptop

Being used to a core 2 duo, three gigabit Ram and a cooling power of a Dell Inspiron Laptop, then downgraded down to an Atom run laptop is such a pain. To make you understand I shall briefly give you the specifications;

Processor – has a processor known as Atom, it was made so small in order to fit into a mini laptop, imagine it being the same technology as the one of smart phones, back to processor speeds it has a maximum clock rate of 800 Mhz, FSB speed of 400Mhz and it is even smaller than a Eurocent coin.

Ram – the thing runs at a one gigabit Ram, this is the size that caters only for compulsory programs such as antivirus, Wi-Fi, updater etc., leaving you with a very small amount of memory to run your daily applications, the result being hanging and patiently waiting for each application to use the tiny Ram before you move to the next.

Size – in fact these should have been my first issue as I was used to a 15.6 inch screen then dramatically downloaded to a 11 inch screed, now with my eyes problem matters become worse, all projects seem to work properly from my screen but when I send o someone with superb quality screen the quality of the project is questioned.

Graphics- with a smaller size, smaller Ram, the graphics is zero, in fact negative, every time I open something that requires high graphics the poor thing restarts, or flickers the screen, so movies, games, graphic design even simple Dreamweaver cannot run on the thing.

Operating system – now am forced to go back to Windows XP, before being forcefully downgraded, I was already doing test on the Windows 8 beta version and my take was a I shall shift once it has been launched, unfortunately I am back to Windows XP, which Gates has already warned me that he shall no longer support it from September 2012. With Windows XP, it is full of limitations, you cannot quickly organise your folders or even simply searching your files, the small thing can only run on windows 7 starter which is even worse since you cannot join any domain, so the only option is Windows XP Pro.

Optical drive – since I deal mostly with software’s, most are recorded in optical disks, unfortunately the thing doesn’t have one forcing me to borrow a machine, copy the cd in a flash drive, back to the thing then copy all over again sh**.

Antivirus – this thing does not let you choose what antivirus you should use, being an advent fan of Kaspersky small office security, which usually runs on a dedicated four hundred megabytes of ram, for me now it is a go no zone I have to play along with Norton which is lighter, but has annoying warning every time you have an application using any of the resources heavily.

Lastly the thing that disappoints me the most is the battery power, being used to go five hours straight without looking for a power source, now I am confided to one and half hours. Now this is what we call urban – rural migration.

Whatever your case is at least we have a netbook, which we all proudly call laptop, and no matter how slow the thing is, or its refusal to cooperate with some of our demands at least we have one.