Anyway 4Mbps has a limit , depending on installer. Some you can beg and ask them to install , but again you cant expect to be synced at higher speed. For instance Zephs case , his SNR Margin is very slim but then he is lucky enough to get 4Mbps. He cant complain nor rant much if his streamyx disconnects as TM would simply say that his SNR Margin low

Beyond 3km , the SNR Margin will drop. Bear in mind that DSLAM For 4Mbps/2Mbps is not the same as your 1Mbps. You may say your 1Mbps offers a better connection , its true cause its different DSLAM

If its an agent you can just forget it la. It may take some time for you to do it and I mean for you to get it done. I would seriously recommend going to TMPoint !

Mine shows that its shipped for the netbook. Oh yeah if anyone of your netbook is shipped , could you take a look at the delivered to. Mine just shows 53300 KL , Kuala Lumpur. I am wondering if thats correct or should it show the whole address

Why dont you you guys understand that Intel Atom is not Intel Core 2 Duo. Its just a Pentium III-M , even a Pentium 4 1.4ghz beats the crap out of an Intel Atom. Secondly intel 3150 is not even a graphics card. It cant really do anything much

The netbook is just good if you want to surf only

Nope , Pentium M is still faster then an Atom as it has a larger cache , the die area is a bit bigger and it has more transistors. Basically Pentium M series is the one that formed Atom. Atom is just stripped down version of a Pentium M. You'll be amazed that Pentium M beats this atom at a lot of CPU intensive stuff for instance surfing or playing flash content

No , your 6 year old laptop will be faster

Anyway TIONG NAM (If you're wondering what the heck is Tiong Nam , its the shipment company) , said that they'll be coming to deliver my netbook tomorrow around 3 to 6. I'll let you know

Did you read my "diary". Anyway I'll explain

26th April - Registered , and got the conformation slip (upgrading from 4Mbps Combo to 4Mbps UniPack). They said it will be done within 24 hours

27th April - 14th of May - Made calls to TM , called up MCMC. TM said my line has been already upgraded , however HP did not get any order information from TM. Some of their system shows that I've upgraded others show that I am still on the old plan. Finally they sent tech again to do the upgrade from 4Mbps to 4Mbps (surprising eh , they still insist on sending one whereby I'm already on 4Mbps , it seems that its their policy. But since its their policy , i did not bother)

16th of May - tech guy came , upgraded to Streamyx Cool UniPack

18th of May - HP entered the order

28th of May - got call from the shipment company saying that they will deliver tomorrow

It took a long time for me to do a simple upgrade.

This post has been edited by prasys: May 28 2010, 04:32 PM

Well if he did upgrade from <4Mbps to 4Mbps , then its okay. But I am moving from 4Mbps to 4Mbps. They still insist sending their tech over to my place to test if i can support 4Mbps , even though I am on 4Mbps

Argh they came at 1 o'clock but I was not around. Common lah , whats wrong with the stupid shipping company. They asked me to wait from 3 to 6 , but came earlier. Waiting for my netbook

Got the netbook , they finally came around 3.45PM. Surprisingly the processor is 64-bit capable. I was impressed. Seriously , I did not know that its 64-bit capable. Wow !

Again Atom with 64-bit capable it just does not make sense. The processor does not have the power , let alone 64-bit . HP swears that it only has 1 slot which is soldered in to the motherboard , but when you open it up. You'll notice any empty RAM slot (meaning that that it can take another RAM , the maximum it can take is 2GB , the motherboard limits it to 2GB and there is an empty miniPCIe slot - which means that you can buy a Broadcom HD card if you wanna play HD movies on it or buy a 3G card or something. I did not open up mine , but the service manual shows that it has another RAM slot

Forget about running windows x86_64 on it , i mean any version. The atom is too slow , plus 1GB is too little for x86_64. Microsoft recommends 2GB at least. Remember when you move to 64-bit , you'll need a bigger memory chunk

1GB is soldered in , meaning that its there. There is a hidden RAM slot , whereby you can buy a 1GB ram module and up it to 2GB. You can't do 2GB+1GB RAM , most likely it would not even boot , even if it does , it may not be able to address 3GB , but limits to 2GB. I wouldnt recommend you to open it up , by doing so it may void the warranty

Which variant is yours. I was reading the service manual. Pm me up and I'll link you up. Its for hp mini 210.

Run CPU-Z and you'll notice EM64T , which means that its possible to run 64-bit OS on the netbook (i.e 7 Professional x86_64)

Its because you applied a phone line , its not part of the UniPack thingy. If you did unipack + phoneline together then the 50 ringgit can be waived. You had to options , register a normal line and then later register cool unipack or register both together.

Well just wait , eventually they'll deliver it

Nope , you need your offer letter + Student ID and official stamp from uni. It varies from one TMpoint to another !
So hows the netbook. Let me guess your Pentium M is way better then the netbook !

No
Dont think it supports xp , but you can try. Anyway 7 starter is not that bad. Its just nice for lightweight stuff

For me it as on the dot , at that time they sent me. Just wait lah , sometimes those poor chaps have to go from one place to another lah. For that I understand

The netbook with windows 7 is not that really bad. This is my current netbook (MSI Wind U100 , Atom N280 , running Windows 7 starter currently and yes its OSX compatible as well)



To be frank the only difference between N2xx and N4xx series is that the latter has a memory controlled integrated to the CPU much like the Core i series and EM64T support (to run x86_64). Benchmarks show that its not a major leap from N280 to N450.

http://www.techpinas.com/2009/12/intel-ato...80-n270-or.html

But the thing I've noticed that N450 is able to handle 720p videos a bit smoother then my current N280. I'll give it another go. Maybe its because of the new drivers !

Strange reason. It doe snot matter , the thing is SNR Margin. You can convert the riger just to be a modem alone as well. Its your call
True my friend went to TM point yesterday , the person said the same. The netbook is finished , out of stock !

Well you must check if they are connected to the same exchange or not. There are a lot of factors which play an important role in determining your SNR Margin

Actually it could be true

The other package well its a different thing , anyway if you take a look a lot of people are selling their hp minis for cash anyway , so most likely it would have reached the limit