So Fallout 1 works no problem. I figured it would but the salesman at BB told me PC games from the 90's would not work on a netbook. Maybe he was going to try to upsale me on a laptop or something and changed his mind. I wonder if Neverwinter Nights 2 will work, I imagine that being about the newest it might do.
Fastbilly, where is this list of Eee compatible games you speak of?
Mod Man: I'll check and see how much it is to upgrade the OS.
Octopod wrote:So Fallout 1 works no problem. I figured it would but the salesman at BB told me PC games from the 90's would not work on a netbook. Maybe he was going to try to upsale me on a laptop or something and changed his mind. I wonder if Neverwinter Nights 2 will work, I imagine that being about the newest it might do.
Fastbilly, where is this list of Eee compatible games you speak of?
Sif a store clerk would know such a thing, not dissing on the guy but they simply never ever use the phrase "I wouldn't know". Corporate culture my ass.
Have you tried playing HD videos on it? Youtube has plenty of those, but since Adobe Flash isn't really optimised (compared to CoreAVC for instance) don't let it be the benchmark for your machine.
Octopod wrote:Doesn't seem to handle 720p video well at all, it gets choppy on the couple of videos I tried. Does that matter on such a small screen?
It all matters depending on your screen resolution and video card. I know some newer Nvidia cards have hardware accelerated flash via new driver updates, making HD video a silky smooth experience.
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It has a quick start OS you can use other than using Windows 7 but I think it is pretty much just for web browsing.
The screen resolution is 1024x600
That's probably why YouTube videos are choppy. If you don't want to spring for a full-featured Windows, there's some Linux distributions specifically for netbooks. One of them's even by Intel
I use CoreAVC on laptops with Intel's GMA chipsets. Of course it only decodes standard HD movies in MP4 and MKV containers, whereas Youtube is Flash-based, as mentioned Flash is already optimised for ION but that would have meant splashing another $200 to get a netbook with said technology.
Octopod wrote:Doesn't seem to handle 720p video well at all, it gets choppy on the couple of videos I tried. Does that matter on such a small screen?
Not sure how much control of changing settings allowed on Starter Win 7.
You could lower the video settings and remove applications running at startup that you don't use. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/guide-spee ... 7-machine/
Maybe he was going to try to upsale me on a laptop or something and changed his mind. I wonder if Neverwinter Nights 2 will work, I imagine that being about the newest it might do. 
