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HP MINI 1000 or similar

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Considering a mini laptop for my ts travels. Does anyone know if the startup time is similar to a regular windows based pc or laptop OR SLOWER? I am always amazed how fast the Apple opens up but they do weigh more and cost at least double. So this may be a reasonable temporary compromise for the few weeks i am away from my full sized pc
 
I had an HP mini briefly. I returned it because I couldn't get to go on my wireless network. By the time I solved the problem, I had sent it back and bought an EEPC 904HA for $150 less. The HP mini is nice, but it is grossly overpriced as far as mini-laptops are concerned.

Both of these had 1GB of ram so boot up was very quick. From what I can tell, the speed of boot-up is related more to the amount of ram than it is to the type or brand of computer. Of course, a big factor is how much stuff is being loaded at started up. That is, the apart from the pre-loaded crap that comes with the computer. However, removing that stuff should be the first order of business with any new computer.

Art
 
I bought an Acer Aspire One netbook and love it. Did a "test drive" while on vacation and it worked great. Booted fast and picked up the local wi-fi networks without a hitch.

I purchased model 1570 which comes loaded with Windows XP and the Microsoft Office Suite. I also bought a little optical mouse because I am just not good with those little finger pads on the notebooks.

I was going to purchase a mini-Dell but they pushed back my delivery time beyond my vacation window and so I had to do something else. I am very pleased - $350 and just 2 1/2 pounds!!

Ann
 
I don't know about the HP (is it vista?), but my Lenovo S10 with XP Home starts up reasonably fast.

In either case, you can use hibernate instead of shutdown to start up even faster. In XP, you hold down the shift key and the first button on the power-off screen (Stand by) changes to Hibernate.

Hibernate saves all state to disk, so it doesn't use any power when it's hibernating. Next time you turn it on, it just loads the saved state from disk.

If it has Vista, Vista's startup is supposed to be faster than XP. It defers loading a bunch of stuff until it's up, so it will be a little busy while it keeps loading the rest of the OS, but it's supposed to be usable at that point. You can experiment with it to see if hibernate is better than a normal startup on Vista. I suspect it probably is, but I've never tried Vista.

-David
 
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Icarus said:
Hibernate saves all state to disk, so it doesn't use any power when it's hibernating. Next time you turn it on, it just loads the saved state from disk...............You can experiment with it to see if hibernate is better than a normal startup on Vista. I suspect it probably is, but I've never tried Vista.
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I have a lightweight Acer that I carry around with me when I travel. Unfortunately it has Vista but I have learned to live with it. It has two quicky shut downs, restarts - hibernate and sleep. Not being computer literate and just using what seems to work for me, I use "sleep". Whenever I want to restart my laptop I just pop the start button and I seem to be right back where I left off.

George
 
Aussiedog said:
I bought an Acer Aspire One netbook and love it. Did a "test drive" while on vacation and it worked great. Booted fast and picked up the local wi-fi networks without a hitch.

I purchased model 1570 which comes loaded with Windows XP and the Microsoft Office Suite.
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I also bought a lightweight Acer Aspire Notebook because it is light and I got it for $400. It came with Vista and nothing else. I think there may have been some anti-virus program but I deleted it. I added free AVG 8.0 and free Open Office 3.0 because I am cheap. Also works perfect at home or on the road.

George
 
Folks looking at the Acer need to be aware of how many models there are. They all have the same name but I counted about a dozen combinations of operating system and pre-loaded software.

Ann
 
bogey21 said:
Not being computer literate and just using what seems to work for me, I use "sleep". Whenever I want to restart my laptop I just pop the start button and I seem to be right back where I left off.

George
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"sleep" or "standby" keeps the data in memory, but saves power by turning off the screen and other devices. It uses your battery (or electricity, if plugged in) to keep the memory contents alive. I'll spare you the technical details, but dram has to be refreshed to keep it's contents alive. When you remove power, the contents are gone.

If you aren't plugged in, and expect to not be for a while, use hibernate. Otherwise, sleep or standby is fine. Even if you use sleep or standby, when the battery gets low enough, it will still hibernate, but you won't have any battery life left if you restart it.

Here's an article that explains the difference between sleep/standby and hibernate:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/...between-sleep-standby-and-hibernate-in-vista/

-David
 
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