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Question About Two Year Old Netbook
Hey folks I have this extra netbook, Samsung Atom 1.6 processor, 200 GB HD, 1 gig of RAM, Windows7 starter.
My daughter had it and managed to totally get it to freeze up and it was unresponsive, well after I ended up getting her a new laptop she gave it back to me. One night I decided to sit down and try and see how I can make it usable again. After finally getting it to reboot in safe mode and removing a bunch of crap off it I managed to get it running like a well oiled machine. I will be upgrading the memory in my main laptop from 4GB to 8GB(it currently has two sticks of 2GB memory in it) and I will be putting one of those 2GB sticks in the netbook (even though the main laptop is 64 bit I don't think it will be an issue using the memory stick from it in the netbook seeing as the memory stick specs are identical when checked out on Crucial.com)
The netbook seems to be laboring quite a bit with the 1GB it has in it now because it is referencing the hard drive a lot, Will the 2GB upgrade help it?
I am not really planning on using this netbook for intense multitasking purposes, I will be basically using it for taking along with me on vacations, photo shoots (using it to back up SD cards when they get full, and viewing/deleting them)
Do you all think it will be up to par to be using this netbook for such purposes? or am I just pissing in the wind?
It is actually a decent little netbook, I have been using it strictly for interweb surfing, viewing RAW images from my camera, and playing the occasional card games, I even have windows office enterprise loaded up on it and it performs flawlessly with it. I am hoping, however....it will work a little faster when I upgrade the memory to 2gigs, what do you all think?
Thanks in advance.