Tablet vs 2 yr old netbook with AMD C-60 APU processor

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I have a 2 year old Acer Aspire one 722 with 2gb ram and AMD C-60 APU processor, to be quite truthful this small 11.6 netbbok is driving me nuts. It is slow, takes ages to load something and even internet is so sluggish and I'm on a 100 mbps connection from Virgin. Thank god it's not my main computer. I think this was a mistake when I bought this from new, even when returning the netbook back to factory defaults, removing all the usual junk adverts/programs, having a clean registry and temp folders etc it can still be painstakingly slow. HD movies I can forget even trying them.

I'm wondering now if I would be better with a tablet for example a Samsung 10.1 tablet. I could afford about £200.00 as funds are tight, I've seen some second hand ones going for around this price.

Main use would be browsing the net and some forums, I'm not sure what office apps could run like Word or Excel, if it could it would be a bonus. Games I'm not fussed about, movies not really important. A couple of website I maintain I could do on my desktop pc.

Now after all the above would the Tablet be a better choice than staying with this slow netbook?

Thanks
 
No, tablets are just for looking with not doing anything.
IBM/Lenovo T400 or the older T61. Cheep, reliable, designed to be taken apart by the owner for maintenance/cleaning (Vids on Utube).
 
Would you be willing to try Linux? Download Linux Lite OS (www.linuxliteos.com) and burn the ISO image to a CD or create a bootable USB stick with unetbootin. Boot the computer using the CD or USB and see whether performance is any better (remember that opening applications will be quite slow from CD). I use LLOS on an 8YO laptop and it's a little sluggish but quite usable.
 
Agree with Toni, try Linux on it.

If you got to the Pendrive website http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ and download the universal usb installer.
Then pick a flavour of linux you would like to try and goto that linux`s website and download the iso.

I use Linux Mint on a 6 yo laptop of a similar spec to yours ok.

Run the usb installer and point it at the iso file and it does the rest and copies it all to a usb stick and makes it bootable.

It will give you a chance to try it without making any permanant changes to your hard drive.
 
Like Simon I use Linux Mint on my 4 year old Samsung notebook and it's very good.

Mine is in a dual boot setup with XP but I did use the Universal USB installer that Simon mentions and tried a number of distros booting from the USB stick before settling on Linux Mint and permanently installing it.
 
Thanks guys, I put the Linux Lite of a old memory stick and it boots on the netbook, I got to say there is quite a improvement on the internet browser, also noticed a wordprocessor and spreadsheet on it too, they seem to load faster than the Windows 7 Excel & Word. I think I'll create a partition on the HD for it, what size of partition would be sufficient for it to run smoothly?

I've read there are not many viruses for Linux, would you be happy doing online banking without the likes of Avast etc?
 
I've read there are not many viruses for Linux
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You haven't heard of shellshock have you.
 
As a noob to linux nope I aint heard of it. A quick google it seems linux gets caught out too. What virus checkers do you recommend for linux. Is there the same need for a firewall as windows?
 
Shellshock exploits a recently discovered (though very old) vulnerability in the bash shell of Linux and OSX. Most distros have already released patches, including Ubuntu on which LLOS is based. Pretty much every distro comes with a firewall that is on by default. If you want a virus checker then you should see if the software repositories have anything available.

*Personally* I don't like online banking one bit. All the clever randomised number generators, passwords and login processes aren't going to protect your details from a determined entity, but I would feel a little safer using Linux than windows, shellshock not withstanding. Avast on Windows helps, but I'd sooner believe my Linux install to be virus-free without AV software than any windows install with AV running.
 
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