Hi guys,
I'm thinking of buying a netbook for business use so I'd appreciate some advice.
I need this netbook to demo my game to my potential investor (he offered to buy in back in June, is still interested last I heard, but I said I wanted more time to think about it). I would also like to have it so that I can do some work while travelling in the UK this year (2 weeks) and going away to the coast over Christmas (2 weeks).
The netbook that I'm looking at is the Sony Vaio E Series. I also want to buy a Vertex 4 for it, as well as another 2GB of memory. It has 1 unused slots.
Anyway... first bit of advice. How can I be sure that the SSD will fit into the netbook? Pretty sure the memory will fit, but not so sure about the SSD.
Second bit of advice - is it worth my time? I'm worried that the AMD Brazos CPU will just be embarrassingly slow and I'll be frustrated with it.
Here's the thing though - I want something small, fast and cheap, in no particular order. The problem is that it seems getting something small and fast is fine - but you pay R13000 for it (an Asus Zenbook). The business just cannot afford that. At least, physically I have the cash, but I dont want to spend that kind of money when I'm not sure how long it will take for me to secure investment. Even the R6000 odd that it will cost to buy this netbook is worrying me. So, it looks like I have to choose two of the three - small and cheap.
I could go with cheap and fast and get a 15.6 inch notebook with a Core i5 or something. But with me using it only when travelling, I'm worried its not really portable enough for me.
There is one added advantage with the AMD Brazos, and that is that if my game runs on a Brazos, it will run anywhere! Which is what I intend, its not a very graphically intensive game.
Thoughts?
I'm thinking of buying a netbook for business use so I'd appreciate some advice.
I need this netbook to demo my game to my potential investor (he offered to buy in back in June, is still interested last I heard, but I said I wanted more time to think about it). I would also like to have it so that I can do some work while travelling in the UK this year (2 weeks) and going away to the coast over Christmas (2 weeks).
The netbook that I'm looking at is the Sony Vaio E Series. I also want to buy a Vertex 4 for it, as well as another 2GB of memory. It has 1 unused slots.
Anyway... first bit of advice. How can I be sure that the SSD will fit into the netbook? Pretty sure the memory will fit, but not so sure about the SSD.
Second bit of advice - is it worth my time? I'm worried that the AMD Brazos CPU will just be embarrassingly slow and I'll be frustrated with it.
Here's the thing though - I want something small, fast and cheap, in no particular order. The problem is that it seems getting something small and fast is fine - but you pay R13000 for it (an Asus Zenbook). The business just cannot afford that. At least, physically I have the cash, but I dont want to spend that kind of money when I'm not sure how long it will take for me to secure investment. Even the R6000 odd that it will cost to buy this netbook is worrying me. So, it looks like I have to choose two of the three - small and cheap.
I could go with cheap and fast and get a 15.6 inch notebook with a Core i5 or something. But with me using it only when travelling, I'm worried its not really portable enough for me.
There is one added advantage with the AMD Brazos, and that is that if my game runs on a Brazos, it will run anywhere! Which is what I intend, its not a very graphically intensive game.
Thoughts?
