- Jan 2, 2003
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My GF was planning on getting her dad a Netbook for xmas,
but I was able to aquire a really nice shape Dell D610 for 50 bucks from my works IT department, haven't received it yet but it has some sort of single core Core processor from my research 1.8-2ghz or so. also has a x300 radeon in it. I'm going to max out the ram on it to 2gb. So figure this would be better than any netbook that we could get for 200-250 anyway. Debating on what OS I should load on it, I'm sure it has XP on it now, I'm thinking it should be good with windows 7 since its still faster than any netbook. the x300 concerns me though, getting mixed information on if its supported by windows 7. Anyone have any thoughts?
Another question I have is I want to make this as easy to fix in the future as possible since this guy is 50 and never owned a computer, lol I know.... but hey he got a blackberry a few months ago and seems to utilize it pretty well so maybe not completely lost...so my thinking was to do an OEM style restore partition that I can instruct him thru when this thing gets screwed up to bring it back to a clean slate, anyone done this before?
but I was able to aquire a really nice shape Dell D610 for 50 bucks from my works IT department, haven't received it yet but it has some sort of single core Core processor from my research 1.8-2ghz or so. also has a x300 radeon in it. I'm going to max out the ram on it to 2gb. So figure this would be better than any netbook that we could get for 200-250 anyway. Debating on what OS I should load on it, I'm sure it has XP on it now, I'm thinking it should be good with windows 7 since its still faster than any netbook. the x300 concerns me though, getting mixed information on if its supported by windows 7. Anyone have any thoughts?
Another question I have is I want to make this as easy to fix in the future as possible since this guy is 50 and never owned a computer, lol I know.... but hey he got a blackberry a few months ago and seems to utilize it pretty well so maybe not completely lost...so my thinking was to do an OEM style restore partition that I can instruct him thru when this thing gets screwed up to bring it back to a clean slate, anyone done this before?