Netbooks?

Fuck Net Books

Except for this One
Alienware M11x Laptop Details | Dell

 

I have an acer aspire1, I love it. I use it for maping in my truck for search and rescue. And to check my email using wifi if my desktop is acting up. Cost about $350.

 

The M11x isn't a netbook.

For your purposes, a netbook would likely do just fine. My gf of the time had an Acer netbook 10" that did fine for web browsing. It used an older N270 Atom which was a bit slow but did the job. Unfortunately, it ended up having hardware failure, so I usually avoid Acer netbooks. ASUS was one of the first companies that went pro with the netbook market and they still have some good product. If the speed is too slow, the most significant upgrade one can do down the line is installing an SSD.

Newegg.com - ASUS Eee PC 1015PEM-PU17-BK Black Intel Atom N550(1.50GHz) Dual Core 10.1" WSVGA 1GB Memory 250GB HDD Netbook

Personally I'd go for something that had media processing ability like ION, but because I watch a lot of video encoded in H.264. Something like this:

Newegg.com - ASUS Eee PC 1215N-PU17-SL Silver Intel Atom D525(1.80GHz) Dual Core 12.1" WXGA 2GB Memory 250GB HDD NetBook

 

They're not bad if you strictly use them for their intended purpose. My friend bought one for Christmas last year and completely decimated it with files, Adware, and a virus that managed to cause a hardware malfunction within two or three months... as long as you don't do that, they're pretty useful.

Also, some of them have a tendency of drastically overheating, so if you're ever using it at home I would keep it elevated off of your desk or buy a Ventilation Tray for it.

Once they start making them with SSDs, I'll definitely consider buying one.

 

The Alienware would cost her less.

 

bu...but, they have magnetic power cords!

I'd agree, the netbook sounds like it would work for your needs. Still do some research so you get something that will last and is not going to annoy you

 

Netbooks aren't bad but their processing power isn't that top notch. Great travelling tool great for reading pdfs and comic books and of course for the internet. I f you dont have big fingers I wouldn't worry too much about the kb I have a 6 inch length span palm and I'm able to use mine just fine it just takes a little getting used to. I have an Acer Aspire A05dh series and overall I would give it an 8/10. Gotta keep in clean of spyware and adware though otherwise it would just become another piece of junk. Check out tigerdirect.com they have some great laptops at the price of netbooks if you are looking but if you're looking for simple data entry then the netbook is good for you.

 

The classic Mac vs PC debate. Neither side ever gives in. It's like the internet's version of the Democrats and Republicans.

 

Netbooks are great as long as one do not try to push them beyond their obvious limitations. I got an Asus Eee 1000H that have done the job and then some for me for, hmm, is it two years already?

But ofcourse I only use it for simple tasks. Web-browsing on the road, keeping track of clients and invoices, keeping and reading various user-manuals, and running some Flash apps I've made for big-screen use, and simple editing of those flash-apps whilst at the venue.

If I were to buy a netbook today, I'd get either one of the new Asus Eee ones, or the Lenovo netbook. Though, I'd probably spend a hundred bucks more, and get a small (12") laptop with a CULV CPU and proper graphics solution.

Oh, and if you do get a netbook, make sure you upgrade it to two gigs of memory right off the bat (most only comes with 1Gb). Windows love memory, and with such low processing power that a netbook comes with, accessing and handling the page-file (what windows use to artificially expand the memory, by dumping parts of the active memory to the hard-disk for later retrieval in order to free up some space for more pressing activities) takes much longer than on your average desktop or more recent notebook.

 

personally, netbooks are good once you get used to them. i've had mine for about a year, and because of my circumstances, it's the only way for me to get on the internet at home. i've gotten used to typing on the small keyboard, but if you have to write anything really long, like a term paper or something like that, definetly attach an external USB keyboard. and a netbooks not very good for watching movies or playing online flash games, so if you want to do those, get a full size laptop or hook up an external monitor to it. an external mouse is a nice thing too, if you don't like using the trackpad. as far as computational power goes, as long as you're not a scientist trying to use this for work, you'll be good. netbooks arent gaming machines, so dont expect to be able to run any on it. i have an Acer Aspire One, if that helps.

 

Can't call myself a fan of netbooks. They're just too small, and though I don't use optical media much anymore, the lack of a CD/DVD drive can be annoying at times. Sure, you can get an external, but that's just annoying.

To be honest, tablets, like the iPad are taking over the market. I was actually reading an article about this recently. Netbook sales were already down quite a bit before the iPad...after the iPad they've gone down even more.

 

for that price I'd go for it...

 

Tool. Overprice piece of shit hardware.

Netbook are great, almost alternative to smart phone. The downside about netbook is it doesn't have a disk drive so you can't watch movies on your netbook, unless you got VLC media player along with rip movies then its all A-Okay.

Based on your statement, you are better off getting netbook than laptop. You are still able to use openwritter/microsoft office, internet, music, watching movies and such. Laptops are good if you need higher end programs such as photoshop 'light'. However if you are very program depended like I, then you are better off getting desktop. (Master collection adobe, 3D model program, FL studio, and million of other program that I use daily.)

Compaq laptop are bad, as well as Dell, Gateway and all big corporation. You are better off building your own desktop... OH wait, you still want a laptop then you are screwed. These companies suck donkey balls big time. They don't even know how to fix a simple problem. "Wipe the harddrive and sent it back to you. No problem, this is easy." You got the computer back, still not working. Call them up saying that it still not working. A week later, you got a new computer. They have no concept how anything works. God, I hate gov corporation companies.