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My brother and I are both in college (well, he is, and I was until recently). We didn't have much money a couple years ago, but we needed laptops for college. I found a smallish Acer Aspire One netbook/notebook hybrid for $200, and bought that. Later, my brother bought a similar but older model in the same series.
It's been 3-ish years now, and my notebook has held up perfectly. No problems, no worn out keys, perfect battery, etc.
My brother's has started having a lot of problems with keys not working, which I assume is because he bought an older model (they keys are set up dramatically differently on the older models vs the newer models).
For reference, the specs in both are 2GB of RAM, dual core 1.0Ghz AMD APU, 320GB 5400rpm HDD.
Now, I've been working for a while and I'm going back to college later this year. My brother has had a much heavier class schedule and hasn't been working, so he has much less money.
I'm thinking about giving my brother my netbook/notebook thing since he needs a laptop with keys that actually work, and switching to a Nexus 7 2013 myself. I just spent the last few hours making sure that typing on a touch screen isn't utter hell, so no need to worry about that.
The Nexus 7 would have 2GB of RAM, 32GB storage, and a quad-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon CPU. I'm wondering what kind of performance increase, if any, I would see over my dual core 1.0Ghz AMD A4-1250.
It's been 3-ish years now, and my notebook has held up perfectly. No problems, no worn out keys, perfect battery, etc.
My brother's has started having a lot of problems with keys not working, which I assume is because he bought an older model (they keys are set up dramatically differently on the older models vs the newer models).
For reference, the specs in both are 2GB of RAM, dual core 1.0Ghz AMD APU, 320GB 5400rpm HDD.
Now, I've been working for a while and I'm going back to college later this year. My brother has had a much heavier class schedule and hasn't been working, so he has much less money.
I'm thinking about giving my brother my netbook/notebook thing since he needs a laptop with keys that actually work, and switching to a Nexus 7 2013 myself. I just spent the last few hours making sure that typing on a touch screen isn't utter hell, so no need to worry about that.
The Nexus 7 would have 2GB of RAM, 32GB storage, and a quad-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon CPU. I'm wondering what kind of performance increase, if any, I would see over my dual core 1.0Ghz AMD A4-1250.
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