Does anyone have experience with a good Nettop for Business use?
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September 8th, 2009
I’m looking for the following:
– Cheap price, but good quality
– VGA output (need to use existing monitors)
– 2+ USB ports
– Able to handle light software usage (web browsing, word processing, Remote Desktop Connection)
I think this MSI wind nettop would work, but I haven’t really found any others (most have HDMI out, excessive specs for this use, etc.)
Has anyone used the MSI Wind or anything else they would recommend (or not recommend)?
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I am very pleased with my ASUS Eee PC 1005HA-PU1X-BU, upgraded to 2Gb RAM which was an extra $25 or so. I used to carry around a Dell M1330; I now find that I can nearly always leave it at home and use the netbook.
I’ve bought and returned six different brands ranging from a 9” to 12” sized-screens. Every single one of them was too slow and small to be useful. The way prices are dropping on full-sized laptops, you’d be better off, in my opinion, in buying one of them rather than a netbook.
I have a Dell vostro a90 which is the business version of the Dell mini 9. It’s running osx perfectly and I love it :] cost
me two fifty refurbished.
We have an Acer Aspire with the 6 cell battery and it works fantastic for us.
Thanks for the responses, but I’m asking about Nettops not Netbooks.
Nettops are small form factor PCs usually with just the basic components, and therefore are less expensive. Basically what Netbooks are to Laptops, so is a Nettop to a Desktop.
oooooohhh
get a mac mini :D
other than that…sorry no experience with any of those.
@patg7590 thanks for offering a suggestion that’s actually a nettop, but like most apple products I have to disqualify it for being too expensive and running the wrong OS for our network/IT standards. ;)
@se_ven you could always dual boot :D
is this for large scale implementation?
@patg7590 yeah, we will end up buying 20 or so machines so a dual boot would be an IT headache and the difference between paying $600 for the Mac Mini and $300 for the MSI Wind ends up being about $6,000.
If it was for a personal machine, the mini would be a little more reasonable to consider, but the idea is a cheap machine that will run XP to keep things consistent with our network and have a small form factor.
@se_ven have you considered using a thin client setup?
@patg7590 on second thought, I don’t think a thin client setup would be beneficial with only 20 machines.
@patg7590 Yeah, that is actually what we are looking to upgrade from. We are moving to a web based software, and would like to do remote support. It worked pretty well for a while.
Nice find, hadn’t run across those articles yet. I briefly noticed the MSI Wind is on the first link…that is probably what we’ll go with.
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