help? a computer aficionado i am not...

[seemprofound]

so i'm starting to think about my next computer purchase since my current computer is looking more and more like it desperately wants to shit the bed. it won't be for a while that i purchase a new computer--but...

here's what i'm thinking --

on the dell website you can get a very very basic very very small (but very very portable by the same token) 9

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[skiddamarink]

(1) is a netbook from dell a good idea or are there just-as-reasonably-priced-but-better-quality ones out there

[seemprofound]

thank you, reid. very very helpful.

[drumrollz]

Either that was a fun jab at Reid, or a fun jab at Keev.

[skiddamarink]

multijab.

[drumrollz]

Nine inches is really fucking small. I saw a guy with a 12 inch the other day, and it was amazingly small. Obviously, that could be really good, but at the same time you lose some sense of computer with it, even basic things like being able to tell if it's in your bag without looking inside.

Ain't nothing wrong with linux, especially if you're not gonna be doing any kind of hardcore non-internet usage.

haha

[erracity]

(1) is a netbook from dell a good idea or are there just-as-reasonably-priced-but-better-quality ones out there?

There are many solid Netbooks out there. I believe Asus makes pretty quality Netbook as well.

(2) should i upgrade the standard 4gb solid state hard drive to a 8gb solid state hard drive just in case i suddenly need to save a whole lot more shit than usual while not at home?

610 songs is about 3GB (roughly), and your Operating System (e.g WinXP) can take up nearly half of a 4GB HDD. I think the default installation for Windows XP is around 1.2 GB, but other features like system restore and updates can push that toward 2GB pretty quickly. I would recommend trying to get the 8GB just for breathing room, and having all your music and size heavy files on an external HDD.

(3) should i get ubuntu at all, or upgrade to windows so that it'll be easier to transfer my files to my old laptop (which i'm sure i'll keep around)Transferring your files to Ubuntu (word documents, music, etc.) would be as easy as transferring them to

Re: haha

[erracity]

Hope this helps. If you have any other questions hit me up on AIM.

Re: haha

[seemprofound]

thanks, man! i appreciate it, really. i'm getting a LITTLE better with computer stuff the more fucked up my current one gets (for instance, the fact that when i go into the processes section of my task manager on windows and see that there are 44-48 processes running and that they are almost all unprompted executable files etc has prompted me to figure out what the hell a .exe file is!). regardless i'm still basically in the dark. eek.

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[erracity]

Well, not all .exe files are bad ones. A lot of them are necessary processes your computer will run in order to function properly. Killing an essential process will usually crash your computer. Just Google the name of a process if you're not sure if it's good or not.