I'm looking to get the wife a netbook and don't really know much about them. I'm not really sure there is much to even know about them except price.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
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Netbook Advice
- Thread starter Abe Froeman
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Craig Fairfax
illuminati Vereran
I suggest not getting the acer aspire one. It runs painfully slow.
BlackSheep
Active Member
Sony - VAIO Lifestyle Netbook with Intel Processor - Emerald Green - VGN-P530H/G
It works great! The screen is really small.
It works great! The screen is really small.
I would recommend something along the lines of the HP Mini 1000 or the Samsung NC10
Seth
MD Party Room
I dont find it slow at all and I have the older one! It handles Itunes and Chrome with 5 tabs open just fine.
I take it you dont want to spend more than 300 bucks Abe. I have a Acer Aspire One AOA150-1987 with a Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz has a 1GB DDR2, 160GB, 8.9" screen I got it for about 200 bucks and like I said above handles everything a netbook is for. I was even able to run Braid and a few other games on it. However battery last me about a hour or so. I have a few friends who have the Hp Mini 110 and she seems to love it, I played around with it and I must say it a pretty nice netbook for basic things and your wife might like it.
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The Hp 1000 have been replaced with the new Mini 110...
As far as I know they're basically the same and you can still pickup a 1000, they are the same netbook in my book
Abe - if you are looking for something that looks nice and has good performance I'd go with the HP with an extended battery.
Trigun
That guy, who Records Music.
I looked at some for the parents at best buy yesterday. Most of them were running XP and were 300-500$
Although there was a gateway one with an AMD 64bit processor with a pretty large res-screen compared to the other ones.
It Ran The basic version of Vista though. Which i'm not sure is good or not since I've never used Vista Basic.
Although there was a gateway one with an AMD 64bit processor with a pretty large res-screen compared to the other ones.
It Ran The basic version of Vista though. Which i'm not sure is good or not since I've never used Vista Basic.
MenaceInc
Staff Member
Vista Home Basic is the worst peice of software ever....and the AMD CPU and large screen suggests to me that it wasn't a netbook but just a small laptop...
Andy
Champion of the Sun
I was on Home Basic for a year and never had any problems with it.
Adiuvo
Active Member
Not sure what's wrong with yours but mine is quite speedy. It's definitely a good little netbook. I took Windows out and installed Ubuntu with XFCE and it's running better than ever. With Opera it handles up to five youtube videos at the same time, and it runs most emulators just fine.
The netbook is built quite well too. Feels sturdy, and while light, it doesn't feel cheap. The only issue I have with it is the fingerprints, but that's only on the top. The interior is brushed metal, and feels quite nice. Buttons are fantastic as well, just as good as real keyboard.
The only gripe I have is that the six cell battery juts out of the back, which makes most cases not fit it. With that battery it gets around 5 hours of usage when using WIFI, six to seven without.
I'd definitely recommend an Acer Aspire One. Around $350 IIRC at Costco.
That Samsung NC10 has gotten decent reviews. What's the big difference between that and the Samsung N310 and N120?
Samsung's N120 and N310 netbooks get reviewed, embraced
After reading this, the N310 looks a good choice.
Seth
MD Party Room
Wow 5 hours! I cant even get threw a movie with my battery on Ubuntu with flux or xfce or Windows 7.
Also are you really going to spend 450 on a netbook?
twelve
I'm not dead
My mums Acer is like that. It's not even a netbook though, it's a small notebook.
I love Acer's styling and they seem to be pretty quick and reliable so the One would be what I go for.
I think I'm going to pull the trigger on that Samsung N310. I like it's look.
Edit - Done and ordered, arrives Thursday.
Edit - Done and ordered, arrives Thursday.
Adiuvo
Active Member
Ouch, how old is yours?
Trigun
That guy, who Records Music.
No it was a netbook Definately. The Thing was pretty small.
Gateway - Netbook with AMD Athlon Processor - NightSky Black - LT3103u