OT: Buying a Netbook

[drboom]

My wife and I have matching ASUS 900A ($299.00 at Best Buy last fall) netbooks, and they work quite well. We run Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Intrepid; no idea if Windows does well on these machines.

If you get one of these with 1GB of RAM, spend $32.00 (shipped) on a 2GB upgrade from crucial.com It makes a big difference if you can minimize or eliminate disk swapping since the MLC Flash drives in these things are slow.

Speaking of flash drives, I replaced the tiny 4GB unit in mine with a 64GB MLC drive. ($115.00 at the time, but prices fluctuate all over the place).

They’re good little machines. My wife prefers her work-supplied MacBook, but that’s mainly a screen size issue. I use mine almost exclusively, and we also have a late model 20″ iMac and an older 12″ G4 iBook to choose from.

I laugh when I see reviews that say netbooks are only good for light surfing, email, etc. I use mine for everything but video editing and conversion, and I’m a programmer/tech guy. If I have to type a lot of stuff, I use an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, though–these little chicklet keys can slow you down.

[nostradamus]

[quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).

[nostradamus]

[quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).

[nostradamus]

[quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).

[nostradamus]

[quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).

[nostradamus]

[quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).

[Coronita]

[quote=nostradamus][quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).[/quote]

Asus is taiwanese too 🙂 But my bias for Acer is because I have a Asus netbook from earlier times, and those things are built kinda flimsy.

[Coronita]

[quote=nostradamus][quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).[/quote]

Asus is taiwanese too 🙂 But my bias for Acer is because I have a Asus netbook from earlier times, and those things are built kinda flimsy.

[Coronita]

[quote=nostradamus][quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).[/quote]

Asus is taiwanese too 🙂 But my bias for Acer is because I have a Asus netbook from earlier times, and those things are built kinda flimsy.

[Coronita]

[quote=nostradamus][quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).[/quote]

Asus is taiwanese too 🙂 But my bias for Acer is because I have a Asus netbook from earlier times, and those things are built kinda flimsy.

[Coronita]

[quote=nostradamus][quote=flu]Acer. But I’m biased 🙂
[/quote]
Me too. Biased because I have and use acers. Not because I’m Taiwanese (I’m not).[/quote]

Asus is taiwanese too 🙂 But my bias for Acer is because I have a Asus netbook from earlier times, and those things are built kinda flimsy.

[werewolf34]

Get the Samsung. Samsung makes a better laptop then Asus or Acer.

Acer is a really really cheap brand and they cut corners on components.

I would consider an Asus but only if it were significantly cheaper

Test-drive the netbooks (type, poke, close, open) and I think you will figure out quickly what you like…keyboard size is also an issue.

[werewolf34]

Get the Samsung. Samsung makes a better laptop then Asus or Acer.

Acer is a really really cheap brand and they cut corners on components.

I would consider an Asus but only if it were significantly cheaper

Test-drive the netbooks (type, poke, close, open) and I think you will figure out quickly what you like…keyboard size is also an issue.

[werewolf34]

Get the Samsung. Samsung makes a better laptop then Asus or Acer.

Acer is a really really cheap brand and they cut corners on components.

I would consider an Asus but only if it were significantly cheaper

Test-drive the netbooks (type, poke, close, open) and I think you will figure out quickly what you like…keyboard size is also an issue.

[werewolf34]

Get the Samsung. Samsung makes a better laptop then Asus or Acer.

Acer is a really really cheap brand and they cut corners on components.

I would consider an Asus but only if it were significantly cheaper

Test-drive the netbooks (type, poke, close, open) and I think you will figure out quickly what you like…keyboard size is also an issue.

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