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If I bought a netbook?
As indicated elsewhere, I'm looking to buy a netbook.
Let's say I bought an Acer One, or whatever. I would then want to install some programs (I have WORD 97 and MS WORKS). I assume I would have to do an installation from the CD? I assume that means I would have to buy an external CD drive? Is that correct? I do have a 2 gig flash drive. I have a sense that just copying it over wouldn't work, would it? Mel |
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If I bought a netbook?
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:10:20 -0700 (PDT), mb_
wrote: As indicated elsewhere, I'm looking to buy a netbook. Let's say I bought an Acer One, or whatever. I would then want to install some programs (I have WORD 97 and MS WORKS). I assume I would have to do an installation from the CD? I assume that means I would have to buy an external CD drive? Is that correct? I do have a 2 gig flash drive. I have a sense that just copying it over wouldn't work, would it? Mel Mel, Or, you can do what I did. If you have a network at home, you can designate the CD drive on your desktop as a "network drive". Then you can simply install your CDROM-based software to the AA One. |
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If I bought a netbook?
mb_ wrote:
As indicated elsewhere, I'm looking to buy a netbook. Let's say I bought an Acer One, or whatever. I would then want to install some programs (I have WORD 97 and MS WORKS). I assume I would have to do an installation from the CD? I assume that means I would have to buy an external CD drive? Is that correct? I do have a 2 gig flash drive. I have a sense that just copying it over wouldn't work, would it? Mel Why screw around with old Word 97 or half-baked MS Works? Simply download and install the parts of OpenOffice that you need. Great price. Free is good. Comaptibility with Microsoft Office is very good, too... Ben Myers |
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If I bought a netbook?
Because I have lots of useful spreadsheets on WORKS that will not work as
well with Open Office (even if I save them as an .xls file). I also prefer working with WORD 97. I guess I can always buy or borrow a USB EXT. CD drive. I have not checked prices. Mel "Ben Myers" wrote in message ... mb_ wrote: As indicated elsewhere, I'm looking to buy a netbook. Let's say I bought an Acer One, or whatever. I would then want to install some programs (I have WORD 97 and MS WORKS). I assume I would have to do an installation from the CD? I assume that means I would have to buy an external CD drive? Is that correct? I do have a 2 gig flash drive. I have a sense that just copying it over wouldn't work, would it? Mel Why screw around with old Word 97 or half-baked MS Works? Simply download and install the parts of OpenOffice that you need. Great price. Free is good. Comaptibility with Microsoft Office is very good, too... Ben Myers |
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"MZB" wrote in message ... Because I have lots of useful spreadsheets on WORKS that will not work as well with Open Office (even if I save them as an .xls file). I also prefer working with WORD 97. I guess I can always buy or borrow a USB EXT. CD drive. I have not checked prices. Mel "Ben Myers" wrote in message ... mb_ wrote: As indicated elsewhere, I'm looking to buy a netbook. Let's say I bought an Acer One, or whatever. I would then want to install some programs (I have WORD 97 and MS WORKS). I assume I would have to do an installation from the CD? I assume that means I would have to buy an external CD drive? Is that correct? I do have a 2 gig flash drive. I have a sense that just copying it over wouldn't work, would it? Mel Why screw around with old Word 97 or half-baked MS Works? Simply download and install the parts of OpenOffice that you need. Great price. Free is good. Comaptibility with Microsoft Office is very good, too... Ben Myers Hey, Since I never throw anything away, I bought this adapter. I use it with an old Plextor drive. Any DVD will work. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822999161 Works great @ $17 + shipping. (less that $25) Or get an 8GB Flash drive. That will work too. ($21) http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer...78087&sr =8-2 Bernie |
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If I bought a netbook?
I would agree with Phil. I have installed software that way and it
works. If you foresee yourself needing to install other apps from a CD or DVD then I would suggest you buy a drive and either an enclosure an adapter like MZB mentioned. You can buy a good name brand drive from the internet (newegg). For some reason whenever I would look for a optical drive at Best Buy or OfficeMax they seemed overly expensive. And I had problems with off brand drives that were cheaper. If you have access to a CD you could try to copy the contents to a flash drive. I don't see why that would not work. I think the problem with replacing an optical drive with a USB flash drive is if you need to boot from the CD. I wanted to backup my daughter's netbook with my copy of Acronis but could not find a way to copy the CD contents to a CD then boot from it. One last thing regarding a netbook. I bought my 11 year old daughter one and it works well however, I would not use it as a notebook replacement if you spend a lot of time on your computer. I am fairly easygoing about my computer needs and when netbooks came out I thought I would use one as my primary machine. I do software development mostly and use my browser. However, when my Dell D600 died for a couple of days and had to use my daughter's netbook I realized that I don't think I could use a netbook long term. I found the keyboard lacking, some keys are shared like the page up and page down. I had to use FN-down arrow to do a page down. The screen resolution is something like 1024x600 or so and most pages you have to scroll through. |
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Ben Myers typed on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:13:57 -0400: Why screw around with old Word 97 or half-baked MS Works? Simply download and install the parts of OpenOffice that you need. Great price. Free is good. Comaptibility with Microsoft Office is very good, too... Ben Myers I have both StarOffice and OpenOffice. Both are completely useless to me. OpenOffice can't even do Title case conversions which I use all of the time. Since OpenOffice can't even handle basic text editing 101, how do you expect it to handle more advanced features? Even Office97 can do it well. In this case, you get what you pay for. -- Bill Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 |
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, vbDavidC typed on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:51:08 -0700 (PDT): [...] One last thing regarding a netbook. I bought my 11 year old daughter one and it works well however, I would not use it as a notebook replacement if you spend a lot of time on your computer. I am fairly easygoing about my computer needs and when netbooks came out I thought I would use one as my primary machine. I do software development mostly and use my browser. However, when my Dell D600 died for a couple of days and had to use my daughter's netbook I realized that I don't think I could use a netbook long term. I found the keyboard lacking, some keys are shared like the page up and page down. I had to use FN-down arrow to do a page down. The screen resolution is something like 1024x600 or so and most pages you have to scroll through. I had the opposite experience. I didn't ever think I could use a netbook as my main machine. But after I got my first one with a 7 inch screen. I learned not only could I use it as my main machine, but I do for months at a time. I liked the first one so much, I bought four more used ones from eBay. Since I have been using only laptops for many years now, I retired my desktop machines. So I have lots of monitors, keyboards, etc. So when I use one on my desk, it is no big deal to connect up an external monitor and wireless keyboard/mouse. It is just two plugs and it is no big deal. And all keyboard and screen size complaints totally disappear anyway. But I am not really bothered by the keyboard and the screen size on notebooks anyway. As the screen size can be changed using compressed mode or scrollable desktop mode. That Fn key use for PageUp/Down is a little annoying, but easy to adjust too. -- Bill Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 |
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"BillW50" wrote:
I had the opposite experience. I didn't ever think I could use a netbook as my main machine. But after I got my first one with a 7 inch screen. I learned not only could I use it as my main machine, Same here Dell Mini 9 is my only computer at the moment |
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Update:
I just ordered the Acer One Netbook. I ordered the 10.1 inch display, 1 gig memory, 160 SSD, and the 6-cell battery. Total was $349. (free shipping) via Buy.com. It includes a 1-year warranty. I also ordered a cheap (under $20) external CD USB drive via EBAY. The programs I want to install are on CDs. Should be fun! Mel wrote in message ... "BillW50" wrote: I had the opposite experience. I didn't ever think I could use a netbook as my main machine. But after I got my first one with a 7 inch screen. I learned not only could I use it as my main machine, Same here Dell Mini 9 is my only computer at the moment |
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