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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (173884)	1/26/2009 12:24:20 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

MM, I researched this some last night. From what I can see, they are fully functional computers. There are two principal chipsets - the Via and the Intel Atom. You want one with the Intel chipset. Operating systems are Linux based or XP. Most come with 1 meg DDR RAM Hard drive sizes vary but some have as much as a 160 gig hard drive, which is ample. Based on my research, I would go with a machine with the Intel Atom processor and an XP Operating System. That'll run any of the popular programs such as MS Office, as well as being able to get you online.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (173884)	1/26/2009 12:24:58 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

The first micro portable I ever saw was the one Fujitsu brought to our business. It was running XP and had the full functionality and a couple gigs of internal flash storage. These are tablet PCs with integrated hard drive. The Crystalview screen makes every other screen look inferior with the possible exception of Toshiba's screens. store.shopfujitsu.com This is a 8.9" screen: store.shopfujitsu.com

To: ManyMoose who wrote (173884)	1/27/2009 10:04:50 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

FWIW the MS Office setup disk(s) can be copied from any source to any source with sufficient space. The thing you need is the license activation code, which comes with the software. If you want MS Office on a computer without a DVD you can copy the disk to a USB thumb drive and install from there. There is a command for installing a network administrative installation point. This allows it to be loaded to a network once and installed by any network computer. You could put a mini notebook on the network and install from a shared DVD on another computer. As always the limiting factor is licensing.