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Sylvania GNET13001

 

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  1. Wired

    Wired
    3 September 2008

    [Editor's note: Looks like the Sylvania Netbook we reviewed wasn't a fully baked version. We'll be getting a finalized demo unit soon and will update this post to reflect that.] Read more

    • Has a real hard drive (80 GB) instead of flash storage. Includes three USB ports and an SD card reader. Comes in colors. Bright screen for this category.
    • Slower than a sedated slug at just about every app despite 1.6-GHz Atom chip and 1-GB RAM (standard $399 model includes just 512 MB RAM). Cartoonish styling. Considera...

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  1. Not a powerhouse, but gets the job done

    Newegg
    10/10
    Reviewer: Newegg
    13 December 2008

    The touchpad is very,very small, so I bought a microsoft usb wirelsee mini mouse. I also bought a lite-on usb slim dvd burner, a set of logitech usb speakers and a usb to serial cable for setting up switches at work. The whole setup works very well and it all packs away in a small over the shoulder napsack for a complete pc on the go. Another 1 gigabite of ram would really make this sing, but I guess you can't expect too much for this price. Read more

    • Small, compact, lightweight, great battery life before needing recharging, built in webcam, wireless or hard cable connectivity.
    • I really wanted to use linux on this, but the gos operating system that comes with it was very buggy, even after reinstalling the newer version available from the sylv...

  2. Rate it all!

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    8.0/10
    Reviewer: theoak, Rate it all!
    3 September 2008

    Sylvania GNET13001 7 Netbook PC 4 I ordered this little notebook about 3 weeks ago, and as soon as it arrived, had it connected to the internet in about 5 minutes. But after a short while, it started dropping the connection. I would reconnect, and it would drop the connection again. If I am within 10 feet of my router, it works fine, but having to be that close defeats the purpose of being wireless. Read more

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  • No OS loaded

    I received my Sylvania notebook but it was not preloaded with any OS, I attempted to load a Linux OS, Ubuntu Remix on, but that crashed during installation, I then attempted Windows XP which also blue-screened and even Windows 7 which actually completes the loading process but upon reboot for the first time, goes to a black screen stating that 'Operating System not found". I've tried to redo the MBR thinking that this might be corrupt (even though there's never been anything loaded onto it) but to no avail. Any help?

    (No answers yet. Write an answer!) 2010-03-07

  • Forgot password. How do you reload OS??

    How do you reload OS? I have the CD but the labtop had no cdrom reader.

    Answered by treinryer 2010-03-07:

    You need to either make a bootable usb flash stick or you need to plug in an external cd rom and boot from that. U can easily make a bootable linux os flash stick (wintoflash is a good option, you can just google that for windows installations) and ubuntu remix (google the following 'unetbootin-windows-408.exe' for linux installations). hope this

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