Is this fairly workable for a senior who's only had a desktop (for 10 years to switch to? I use mainly for web, e-mails, Amazon etc.
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I'm a senior who thinks its workable. But I think I'm a hot dog. Windows 8 takes some learning, although clicking on Mail and Internet Explorer are quite straight-forward. There's a lot of learning resources on available if you get stuck. I think you might actually enjoy it.
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Yes, as long as they don't try to run other programs. It's not a gaming PC so it may lag sometime . I use mine for college and it works fine.
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I see the specs in other answers here, and while not impressive for a desktop this does perform very well when compared apples to apples. I replaced a defective atom-based mobo+cpu with this one after reading many favorable reviews about performance visa-vi the atom with a higher CPU clock speed. Paired with an SSD, this little WIndows-7 based system became a noticeable upgrade for my client, who needed a repair on a small form-factor PC for basic e-mail and internet home use. - Mark, The IT Guy San Diego
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yes, yes, and yes, Not a bad machine at all. I suggest you get the Win 7-64 however and 8 GB RAM. Win 8 is too clunky. Must have been the Win 95 dev team who made that.
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I have a plenty of these machines (with SSD drives) as a perfect replacement for office PC doing all tasks: Outlook, web surfing, netmeetings and even watching HD videos from the web. All on Windows 7. And with perfect mobility: attached to the back of the monitor (with supplied bracket).
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This PC is definitely sufficient for Internet surfing. And yes, it will run MS Office 2013 - the key question is performance. My observation is performance is completely acceptable.
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It's an amazing lap top for it's age. How ever Dell made the parts inside permanet you can not upgrade anything. It has one USB port which suprised me for the year built. It has the old style printer port. Now with windows XP expiring in April, I use FoxFire browser. I mainly use it for home part of my home security system.
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I multitask on this machine a lot. It has been responsive with many apps open, nothing too intensive, but many of them. Multitasking while hd videos are playing is no problem either. I wouldn't use it for video editing, encoding, heavy photoshop, 3d modeling, or the like. I think of it as a netbook on steriods, it is small and easy to travel with decent battery life and a much better processor than an atom but it is by no means a competitor for an intel i3-5-7. I have thought about the adding an SSD to this machine, I think it would be a great benefit but i don't think not adding one would be a deal breaker either. ie; onenote loads in about 4 sec, putty 1 sec, editors in about 3 sec. If you add one, be sure to get 7mm drive rather than 9mm. I dont believe the 9mm will fit.
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So far I have had no problems using it with my desktop. Response time is the same as if I was using the plugged in keyboard. Please let me know if you have any specific concerns and I will test them out.
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I have only used it for email and reading books, so can't answer the questions. Sorry about that.
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This is good computer for light computing. Facebook games will probably be fine. I have found this is the best value for a good computer.
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The Acer should be able to handle that kind of load fairly easily. I have it at home and have been streaming media, installing an app, and transferring files over all at the same time without any noticeable lag. The atom processor may not be a beast but it will be able to handle the kind of load you are talking about.
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Asus system works fine. Cheap but fine for what it is. Not a gaming PC so any attempt to game with it will result in frustration. But email, internet and word processing will be perfect!
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i use it for a combination of web and non web use and would say that it averages about 5 hours....it is really an awsome computer!
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Ok, thanks for all these infos, but I know nothing much about computers except to use them, so I bought a msi u120 because I need to use it for personal office work and web browsing as well as msn chat. I'd also like to install a genealogy program on it. Can anyone tell me if its power will be enough for that. Don't laugh, but I'm pretty lost and I didn't even receive the beast yet. probably sometimes next week. so any advice before I start it and its capacities will be welcome. Don't laugh again, it's the first time in years that I buy myself a computer and my first laptop too.
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Yes. You may do most anything you can from one of the bigger computers. It just has a smaller screen and not quite as much oomph. Windows 8 can be annoying, but if you learn the keyboard shortcuts than it's ok.
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I am using Office Pro 2010, and it is nice and smooth, so far I have not had any multi-tasking issues, with up to 4 or 5 programs running, but screen space is limited, being only a 11" so keep that in mind.