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Hi , My wife’s 2 year old Samsung laptop has just died on us – I was thinking of replacing it with an N130 as we can’t really afford to buy a new laptop – I was wondering if anyone could answer a couple of questions before we take the plunge and buy one !
1 . Will it be able to play Facebook games such as Cafe World , Farm Ville and other browser based flash & java games – if so how well will it cope with these.
2. Will it be able to handle simple photo editing with Picassa or a browser based editor such as picnik ?
3 . be able to run Yahoo or MSN messenger ?
Apart from these things and general surfing / emails – that’s about all it will be used for .Thanks for any help in advance
KevMyself and other eBay people would probably be interested in your dead sammy laptop, what was up with it broken screen or just a power lead/socket fault?
The N130 will easily handle the facebook flash and java games
2.) Simple photo editing should be fine but if using huge images in picasa you should aim to simply upgrade the RAM 2GB from crucial using the memory chooser on the website should be easy enough.
3) No problems running instant messenger progams such as Yahoo or MSN.Hope that helps.
As above – you should be able to carry out those tasks fine. I use paint.net as my photo editor and it runs ok. The bigger problem with photo editing is the screen size and lack of mouse – but for the odd photo edit it really is fine to use.
loopingstar -Welcome to the forum
The N130 will have no problem with simple photo editing and messengers but the Atom based netbooks struggle with Flash games. I posted my thoughts in this thread recently.
The trick with Facebook games is to only have one open at a time if possible but most of the time it is the slow servers that reduce performance the most. Running the SRware Iron browser with the latest just released Flash 10.1 RC helps a lot in my experience.
Hope this helps and let us know how you get on.
Thanks for the replies guys . I think I’ll take a gamble and pick one up . If it doesn’t play bloody Cafe World my wife will batter me !!! 🙂
Got the N130 today , pleased with it for the price (paid Ă‚ÂŁ 230 from Argos) . Regarding the facebook games , we’ve been messing around and found they play much better in Google Chrome than the built in Internet Explorer – In IE they just freeze up and take ages to load , while in Google there are no major problems . Why would this be ?
More efficient programming under Chrome’s bonnet – I recall also having to install Chrome for wife as she found the same with IE.
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