My mom, who loves me very very much, is making noises about buying me a netbook for my upcoming birthday. She had a good rec for MIS WIND or some variety with 6 cell battery, 2.6 lbs. I know next to nothing about netbooks, as i've been burying my head in the sand for years given my lack of finances to buy such things for myself. But since Mommy is willing to shell out...i know that i like the idea of lightweight. Um, what other things should i be looking for in a netbook? Anyone have rec's? Macbook air is right out, we're more in the $300-500 ranger here ;)
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erin_obscure - Jul 05, 2009 5:46:10 pm PDT #10635 of 25501
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Gudanov - Jul 05, 2009 5:52:22 pm PDT #10636 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I've got my eye on a Asus Eee 1000HE or this newer one. I like the battery life since I see using it only places were there isn't a place to plug-in.
I don't have first hand experience with any though.
I want to wait until Windows 7 is out first and get it with that instead of XP Home.
I'm rather liking Windows 7 on my desktop.
meara - Jul 05, 2009 8:18:17 pm PDT #10637 of 25501
What Gud linked to is what I just bought, except I got the less-new one, with the 6 hours battery life instead of 10, or whatever.
I'm going to take it on my trip tomorrow and test it in actual traveling situation. We shall see. But so far in "too lazy to go get my bigger laptop from another room in the house" it's been entirely workable for my rather light web use.
Calli - Jul 06, 2009 2:22:50 am PDT #10638 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I got the Asus eee 1000HE, and I love it for traveling. I wouldn't want to use it for hours of freelance work or video editing, but for internet, email, and the occasional .doc file it's great. It's also light and got me complements in the Detroit airport.
The slightly smaller keyboard takes a little getting use to, as does the smallish screen. Otherwise, it's fab.
sumi - Jul 06, 2009 4:24:14 am PDT #10639 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
If I have tabs enabled in IE 8 - is there any reason why tabs should not be working?
Jessica - Jul 08, 2009 4:06:29 am PDT #10640 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - Jul 08, 2009 5:03:52 am PDT #10641 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. So with Android and this, they now have two computer OS's.
Gudanov - Jul 08, 2009 5:08:01 am PDT #10642 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
From my impressions of Windows 7 they will have their work cut out for them. I've only heard good things about Win 7 on netbooks as well. Though MS might shoot itself in the foot by imposing hardware limitations on netbooks that run Win 7.
tommyrot - Jul 08, 2009 5:21:16 am PDT #10643 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. That Google announcement is all over my blogs....
Jon B. - Jul 08, 2009 8:41:03 am PDT #10644 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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