oh i see so you dictate the amount of partition you want it to use at the time of install? so like Nismo said about the partition size, is that what he meant?Finray wrote:
Jolicloud is an operating system, just like Windows or OSX or Ubuntu, made by Mozilla, and designed especially for netbooks. It's low on power consumption, and works well with space for when you have a really small screen. You can download the whole thing (it's about 700MB), as an .exe, run that from inside windows, and it does it all for you. You just have to specify how much space you want on your new jolicloud install, and then leave it to it.
Yep, it's really simple, you're not going to be able to fuck it up.baggs wrote:
oh i see so you dictate the amount of partition you want it to use at the time of install? so like Nismo said about the partition size, is that what he meant?Finray wrote:
Jolicloud is an operating system, just like Windows or OSX or Ubuntu, made by Mozilla, and designed especially for netbooks. It's low on power consumption, and works well with space for when you have a really small screen. You can download the whole thing (it's about 700MB), as an .exe, run that from inside windows, and it does it all for you. You just have to specify how much space you want on your new jolicloud install, and then leave it to it.
you sure you dont want to retract that statement now Finlay?Finray wrote:
Yep, it's really simple, you're not going to be able to fuck it up.baggs wrote:
oh i see so you dictate the amount of partition you want it to use at the time of install? so like Nismo said about the partition size, is that what he meant?Finray wrote:
Jolicloud is an operating system, just like Windows or OSX or Ubuntu, made by Mozilla, and designed especially for netbooks. It's low on power consumption, and works well with space for when you have a really small screen. You can download the whole thing (it's about 700MB), as an .exe, run that from inside windows, and it does it all for you. You just have to specify how much space you want on your new jolicloud install, and then leave it to it.
i'm downloading Jolicloud as we speak, i'll have it prepped on my USB stick for installation in the morning once i pick it up.
cheers Fin xx
er are you going to install side by side?
that was the plan, i doubt i'll use W7 once i get into Jolicloud, i'm really liking the look of it.Flaming_Maniac wrote:
er are you going to install side by side?
Then you either need to a) download the .exe for Jolicloud on W7, and do the installation through W7 or b) wipe 7, partition the disk, install 7 on one and Jolicloud on the other using the USB stick.
Jolicloud has a partition manager in it. You can shrink the Win7 partition to half the HDD, and use the other half for Jolicloud.
If you use the .exe, I dunno about the usb stick.
Yeah I think he meant he's just going to transfer it via the USB.
oh yeh sorry i are confuse.
i meant stick it in the USB stick ready to transfer onto the netbook to install from W7. I think i'll start with 100gb partition for Jolicloud, i can always delete and reduce if required.
what do you think?
i meant stick it in the USB stick ready to transfer onto the netbook to install from W7. I think i'll start with 100gb partition for Jolicloud, i can always delete and reduce if required.
what do you think?
Sounds good. In the link you gave you only get Win7 Starter, which has some serious limitations, so you'll be better off with Jolicloud.
aye yeah i'm really looking forward to it, i like the modular attitude it has to OS.
oh it's fucking good, i love it, not sure on Jolicloud yet. Back on W7, everything works just fine too. tho youtube is a bit slow, bbc iplayer runs solid tho and the netbook will play HD video just fine but its youtube which is the issue. even on lowest quality.
any ideas?
any ideas?
What does your memory look like when you're trying to play youtube? 1 GB of RAM is pretty low for W7. Swapping for 2GB would not hurt at all.
It's not the RAM, it's the CPU. Atom's are wank, my netbook as the same problem.
imho buying a vaio at that price-range is a massive waste... it's all brand
it's like buying a £300 macbook: you'd get nothing but a classy case and an apple-logo. hardware wise, you're not spending enough for those perceivably 'top end' laptop brands to shell out. vaio's and macbooks only really become hardware-worthy at the £1k mark. anything less than that and you're essentially paying a pretty awful price for a pretty sub-standard bit of technology. just a generalisation of course, im sure as a netbook for just web-surfing and IM'ing etc. it'll do fine.
it's like buying a £300 macbook: you'd get nothing but a classy case and an apple-logo. hardware wise, you're not spending enough for those perceivably 'top end' laptop brands to shell out. vaio's and macbooks only really become hardware-worthy at the £1k mark. anything less than that and you're essentially paying a pretty awful price for a pretty sub-standard bit of technology. just a generalisation of course, im sure as a netbook for just web-surfing and IM'ing etc. it'll do fine.
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I haven't played youtube in mine for a long time, but afaik it works fine.
Ya the e-series is great value imo (@ 1k)Uzique wrote:
imho buying a vaio at that price-range is a massive waste... it's all brand
it's like buying a £300 macbook: you'd get nothing but a classy case and an apple-logo. hardware wise, you're not spending enough for those perceivably 'top end' laptop brands to shell out. vaio's and macbooks only really become hardware-worthy at the £1k mark. anything less than that and you're essentially paying a pretty awful price for a pretty sub-standard bit of technology. just a generalisation of course, im sure as a netbook for just web-surfing and IM'ing etc. it'll do fine.
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ive got a TZ and it's a pretty nice piece of kit, only used it during my first year of uni though... relegated to iplayer-in-bed status now
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lol, noFinray wrote:
Asus, Acer, it's all the same.CammRobb wrote:
no, she has an acer.Finray wrote:
i dunno lol
My sis has one, it's pretty sweet.
I meant it'll play a video fine, but having a YouTube video open and a few tabs in FF and it'll run like shit.Flaming_Maniac wrote:
I haven't played youtube in mine for a long time, but afaik it works fine.
baggs do you want to talk about netbooks still?
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the netbook has 1gb of ram, i dont know if i can upgrade it on this. however, can't i plug in a memory stick/SD card and use that as system ram also? or have i understood that wrong?
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolbaggs wrote:
the netbook has 1gb of ram, i dont know if i can upgrade it on this. however, can't i plug in a memory stick/SD card and use that as system ram also? or have i understood that wrong?
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no
EDIT: Enjoy your non-upgradeable notebook
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Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me