Acer Netbook so slow

Dolby

Dolby

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I bought my Netbook in February and it felt sluggish, but managable then. However now I find it super slow - and I've got very few items on it :(

How do the other owners find it?
 
if its a model with a SSD, then some guys in another thread here said it would be slow

What you got SSD or HDD and what model?
 
HDD ...

I have the embedded 3G (Atom 1.6, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD). I'm going to up the RAM to the maximum 1.5GB soom - but I want to try leave hardware in tact and thought maybe it was software settings somewhere.
 
Keen to see what the other guys say. I was going to get the A110, but decided the SSD would be too much of a mission if slow. Changed my mind to the A150, similar to yours, without the 3G, so it concerns me that they slow.
 
XP - I think Linxux only comes on the SSD ...
 
My 120hdd isnt sluggish at all - though I am running W7, not XP, with 1.5gb ram
 
if I simply plug in a USB HDD, use the Windows 7 RC I downloaded and install - would that work?

More importantly, would I still be able to revert to XP by selecting the Acer recovery thing on the hidden partition?
 
I installed an extra 1Gig myself and now the little netbook flies.
(A110, XP sp3 (tinyXP), 1.5Gb, 8Gb SSD)

Getting TinyXP is definately worth it, check the torrents if you're so inclined, or PM me and I can give it to you.

Edit: Sorry, I re-read and saw you have the 160Gb hdd. The TinyXP i have will only work with the 8Gb SSD.
 
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Dolby said:
if I simply plug in a USB HDD, use the Windows 7 RC I downloaded and install - would that work?

More importantly, would I still be able to revert to XP by selecting the Acer recovery thing on the hidden partition?
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There is a hidden partition? Mine came with linux so they supplied a CD for that.

There are plenty of how to guides for installing from a USB stick. You'll need to expand the ISO somewhere first but I dont see why a clean USB hdd wouldnt work.
 
It's a 160GB partioned into 140GB/20GB.

On the 20GB they have the XP installation files, McAfee, all drivers etc - pretty much identical to when it came out the factory. When it boots, I can press F10 and load the identical image as it came from the factory. I can even select the recover option and choose 'reset to factory defaults' in which case it reboots into that partion automatically.

So pretty much I know I can ruin ANYTHING software related, and select revert back ;)

Just scared Windows 7 prevents this somehow (file systems, formats that partion by mistake etc)
 
Can't you format drive? I think almost everything can be installed from a flash nowdays...

Wasting 20GB for a restore image is silly. Can these things not use 2GB RAM? Is there a motherboard limitation of some sort?
 
Dont think it will do that - I took the risk of installing Win7 on my media center pc - and had 2TB of stuff on a 2nd drive I was scared of accidentally loosing - everything went fine.
 
It's got McAfee installed as a trial for 60 days or something ... I did the partion thing about a month ago, so I still have 30 odd days left of McAfee
 
Budza said:
Can't you format drive? I think almost everything can be installed from a flash nowdays...

Wasting 20GB for a restore image is silly. Can these things not use 2GB RAM? Is there a motherboard limitation of some sort?
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The mobo has 512Mb onboard, built in I think.
and has one free slot. This slot can take up to 1GB stick.
=1.5GB
 
I have the Acer Aspire One A110L; the one with 8BG SSD, 512MB RAM and Linpus.

Hardware is as-I-bought-it. Have removed Linpus and installed Ubuntu 9.04 desktop.

No complaints about performance.

What do you mean by "sluggish" ?

What kind of hard drive throughput are you getting?
 
I dunno - anyway to check?

It just feels sluggish ... like opening two tabs in IE and swapping between them :/
 
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