Cheap Windows tablet
$99.99 for a Nextbook 10.1" Windows tablet at Wamart. Walmart tablet
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pconroy328 wrote:strollin wrote:
I have a 7 year old netbook with an older Atom processor and 1.5GB of RAM. I ran Win 7 Pro on it for about 5 years and could easily have about a half-dozen programs running all at the same time. 2GB of RAM works even better.
Just to share a bit -- I had the opposite experience. My wife impulse-bought an HP Netbook. 1.8GHz Atom, 2GB, Windows 7 Starter (or was it 'Basic').
She's a light user and found it to be awful. I'm a heavy user and found it to be downright horrible.
Last year, I found it wasting away in some drawer and I put Lubuntu on it. Now it's tolerable. :)
I guess everyone's experiences are different.
I don't know exactly what software you tried to run but for "normal" everyday use (email, internet, word processing, spreadsheet, etc...) it did fine. It may just be a matter of expectations, you can't expect a netbook to run everything as fast as a desktop or laptop would.
I have tried several different flavors of Linux on my netbook (including Lubuntu) and wasn't wowed. I currently have 1 netbook running Win 10 and another running Chrome OS (between the 2, I prefer Win 10).
