Anyone got a netbook? Want to make it a touchscreen? Here's how!

[archaeology_student]

Hey,

I thought that I would share this with everyone. If anyone has a netbook and wants to make it a touchscreen, here's how to do it for under $100.

Netbook Touchscreen

I hope that this is of help to some of you

 

[LanceCruiser]

That would be nice. I just picked up a refurbished HP 10" netbook from Futureshop Online for $279 with a 16GB solid state drive. I bought it for travelling, and eventually GPS for the truck.

Future Shop: Computers: Netbooks: HP Mini 10.2" Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz Netbook - English - Refurbished - Web Only

 

[steverb]

you couldn't resist, just had to go get it. now you need to go get the garmin entena and mapping software before Oregon this Wednesday. if you download nroute you can plug mine in and have voice commanded directions.

That would be nice. I just picked up a refurbished HP 10" netbook from Futureshop Online for $279 with a 16GB solid state drive. I bought it for travelling, and eventually GPS for the truck.

Future Shop: Computers: Netbooks: HP Mini 10.2" Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz Netbook - English - Refurbished - Web Only

 

[LanceCruiser]

The netbook looks and works great, it does what I am going to use it for. Now I can go anywhere there is WiFi access. I do wish I could get rid of some the programs, or move them to the 2gb of extra storage this package came with. I just need the Garmin GPS kit, and a car mount. The maps will probably take up the rest of what ever there is left of the 16gb of memory. The 3cell battery it comes with will last about an hour or so.

 

[Fantom]

download a 30 day trial of a program like "CCleaner" or "Uninstaller" which completely gets rid of stuff that you don't need. Then just uninstall them when you're done.

 

[pbgbottle]

fresh clean oem install

if you no how to format your machine and reload windows .i have a clean HP ROYALTY oem win xpsp3 professional disc i could burn you a copy of , you might try to run this utility on your laptop or any oem machine (link below) and see what info it spits back at ya . if nothing shows up then it does not have the correct OEM id string in your bios. i also have a few other oem pro disc's aswell
these disc need no activation the activation is locked to the motehrboard .
heres a link to the utility for anybody to try on there oem machine . it sure is nice to have a clean OS without all that trial crap

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sorry for the long winded message

 

[LanceCruiser]

Thanks guys, I will try that. The Netbook came with it's own copy of XP SP3 for HP. I'm going to try out some of the programs a bit more, to see if I like them or not. I was going to get rid of IE, and just use Fire Fox, but it wont let me remove it.