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A question about a Netbook computer
Does anyone know if one of the small Netbook computers would be powerful enough to run the Pepakura reader program, and be able to print to PDF?
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It depends on the netbook (mainly its age), but most likely yes.
My sister has an Acer Aspire netbook, not sure on the age but it must be somewhat newer; it's 1.6ghz processor would be more than enough for those uses. I had an older full-size Dell Inspiron laptop that I used for light 3D modelling/papercraft and it worked fine but hers would outperform it any day. Also, my mother has an old Fujitsu Lifebook netbook (from around 2001?), I think it still would run Pep Viewer but probably not very fast. Unless the netbook is very old, you shouldn't have any problems. If you happen to know the specs I can give you a better idea; I've used Pep on a lot of different computers
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I travel a lot for my job. I bought a refurbished Acer netbook for my personal stuff (like deisgning models!) and I have carried it with me around the world for the past 2 years. It took me a little bit to get used to the smaller screen, but I absolutely love it. Easy to carry and doesn't take up a lot of space for a full featured computer.
Sure it may not be the fastest or have the latest bells and whistles, but it suits me just fine. I use it as a backup work computer, web surfer (I'm on it right now), hobby work, picture storage (I added a 32 GB SD flash card), document writing, Skype calls to the wife, basically everything I need a computer to do. I can play games and such on it, but probably not well suited for serious gaming. But then what serious gamer would use a small netbook anyway? Best Regards,
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I'm exactly the same as Ron and travel all over with mine and haven't had any problems at all doing normal graphics viewing (including pep files) with it...
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Thanks for the info guys. I found a local used computer shop that sells them refurbished for $150.00. I think I can use it for my PDO file so I can print them to PDF for my MAC and my wife can use it for writing.
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I have a 5 year old Dell D620 that is my company supplied laptop. I have kept it because it has a serial port which is needed to program the automation systems that I supply. It is a dinosaur comprised to the new laptops that you can purchase for $350 to $500. I have AutoCAD, and Illustrator on it both of which require a good computer to run, So my answer is yes any good new laptop will do a good job. However you can never have too much memory or a processor that is too fast.
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