netbook loyalty

scrawler · 2009-06-19 13:45:05

I have purchaced an asus eee 901, and I like it. I will henceforth always have a netbook around. I almost went with an aspire one, and I know there are many others. Would you get the same netbook that you have now, or a different one? I'm satisfied with my choice, but I'm pretty sure the aspire one has a better keyboard--are there any big issues with your choice that will cause you to explore alternatives?

XFire · 2009-06-19 16:15:04

The only niggle I have my Acer is that it is a tad on the noisy side, other than that it's brilliant.

scio · 2009-06-19 16:29:10

I have an Eee 1000HE, would buy it again in a second. Amazing battery life and chicklet keyboard really sold me. Only thing that would make me look somewhere else is if they started selling comparable models with linux by default to lower the price. (I know there are linux ones, but they don't match up for my needs.)

der_joachim · 2009-06-19 18:01:38

I'd swap my EEE900 for something with decent battery life. I do prefer SSD though. I dropped my netbook several times, something that would have be more disastrous if it had had a hard disk.

AngryKoala · 2009-06-19 22:37:07

I'm quite satisfied with my 6 hours of battery life from my Samsung NC-10. 160GB of hdd space is nice too.

jordi · 2009-06-19 22:47:51

bought a eeepc 1000H almost 8 months ago. Now I would buy a 1000HE for the changed keyboard layout and the extra battery.

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jasonwryan · 2009-06-19 23:38:15

I looked at quite a few and settled on the Eee 901. I think it is brilliant - small keyboard notwithstanding. I can't really see myself going back to a laptop as the netbook is so much more portable. And running Arch means that it really flies...

leo2501 · 2009-06-20 08:08:31

MSI Wind here bought a couple of months ago, this is my main desktop i had a athlon 5600+ with a 7800gt nvidia card, but i found myself only playing old dos games and some emulators, so i change to a netbook for portability and because i don't needed the power i had with the desktop... and because they are very cute, lol...

The thing as i see it, is that in fact, there are a lot of brands and models, but there's only ONE netbook in the market, with different cases, wifi cards, screen size, HDD/SDD and RAM... and it's

intel atom 270/280
intel graphics 945G

im dying to see a different netbook so we really could have a choice, rather than case/keyboard layout

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LeoSolaris · 2009-06-20 21:02:52

I am looking at two of them for purchase in the near future.

This one from Dell: (It's your basic Atom processor set up, with a touch screen)

http://premierconfigure.us.dell.com/del … =RC1084719

And this one from Always Innovating: (It's an ARM with a touch screen and a current rating of 10-15 hours of battery life, if you by the keyboard. It's 5-7 hours without keyboard.)

http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm

With the added $100 for the AI keyboard and the added $40 for the Dell touch screen, they are about even in price. Without those two, the AI tablet wins based on price and battery life.

Besides the money and performance aspects, I would like to support a company that has the brass to make a laptop (netbook) based on a processor that Microsoft refuses to port Windows to. That's awesome in my opinion. Right now, that heavily tips the scales in AI's favor for my money.

Ok and the magnetic back on the tablet that allows it to stick to the fridge is just geeky cool.

scrawler · 2009-06-22 19:57:43

That AI looks really cool. I wouldn't want to drop it, though.

sveinemann · 2009-06-23 04:01:20

I work on a Asus eee 900, with Arch. That is my work station... It is to slow, 900Mhz is not a enough. And the keyboard is too tiny, my fingers hurt when using it for many hours. Next laptop will be bigger, for comfy keyboard. And built in mobile broadband, more than 900Mhz would be nice to. Maybe dual core.

XFire · 2009-06-23 06:37:39

I thought the 900s where 1.6GHz

dunc · 2009-06-23 22:37:19

I don't regret buying an AAO 150. Battery life could be better, but it's the only complaint I have. The Samsung looks very nice but then it is more expensive. If I could have afforded it, I might have gone for that. (To my mind, if it costs more than 250GBP it isn't a proper netbook. )

moljac024 · 2009-06-24 09:42:08

leo2501 wrote:

MSI Wind here bought a couple of months ago, this is my main desktop i had a athlon 5600+ with a 7800gt nvidia card, but i found myself only playing old dos games and some emulators, so i change to a netbook for portability and because i don't needed the power i had with the desktop... and because they are very cute, lol...
The thing as i see it, is that in fact, there are a lot of brands and models, but there's only ONE netbook in the market, with different cases, wifi cards, screen size, HDD/SDD and RAM... and it's
intel atom 270/280
intel graphics 945G
im dying to see a different netbook so we really could have a choice, rather than case/keyboard layout

You play dos games on the netbook ? How is that working out ?
Because last I checked dosbox was pretty hungry for cpu power....in fact I can't play dos games smoothly on my core duo 1.73ghz and integrated intel graphics (it's driving me crazy)

buttons · 2009-06-24 11:07:06

I have a mini 9, unfortunately purchased before the chicklet-style keyboards existed.

I would LOVE a chicklet keyboard, however I will put off buying a netbook with one until someone makes a decent one with the Ion chipset, for CUDA.

That doesn't stop me from recommending this thing to everyone in earshot, though...

moonfish · 2009-06-24 11:32:07

I purchased a Samsung NC10 some weeks ago and I love it. Great keyboard, excellent display, good battery life and with some tweaking Arch is running well on it. I haven't regretted the buy any second. I think I'll stay with it a long time.

leo2501 · 2009-06-24 11:52:13

moljac024 wrote:

leo2501 wrote:
MSI Wind here bought a couple of months ago, this is my main desktop i had a athlon 5600+ with a 7800gt nvidia card, but i found myself only playing old dos games and some emulators, so i change to a netbook for portability and because i don't needed the power i had with the desktop... and because they are very cute, lol...
The thing as i see it, is that in fact, there are a lot of brands and models, but there's only ONE netbook in the market, with different cases, wifi cards, screen size, HDD/SDD and RAM... and it's
intel atom 270/280
intel graphics 945G
im dying to see a different netbook so we really could have a choice, rather than case/keyboard layout
You play dos games on the netbook ? How is that working out ?
Because last I checked dosbox was pretty hungry for cpu power....in fact I can't play dos games smoothly on my core duo 1.73ghz and integrated intel graphics (it's driving me crazy)

Yes! i play a lot of abandonware dos games in dosbox in my msi wind, for the older ones i even use advmame3x scaler, and for the newer games i use normal or none for scaler, with the only games i have trouble or slowness is for the latest games, those earlier 3D games, like blood, quake 1 or some old 3D racing game, but for the firsts, there are other ways to run them, like newer ports

der_joachim · 2009-06-24 13:24:50

XFire wrote:

I thought the 900s where 1.6GHz

The 900 has a Celeron 900 processor, the 901 has a Atom 1.6 Ghz. That is the easy part of the story. Asus released the 900a later, which does have the Atom, but is apparently pretty similar to the 900 in every other respect.

technofan79 · 2009-06-25 10:19:05

I have a MSI laptop and a notebook they are both great to use .

aymara · 2009-06-26 02:33:48

I have bought a generic one. It's build on Argentina, Called BGH e-nova. Intel 945 graphic card and Intel Atom N270 a 1.60 GHz processor.

Arch worked out of box and smoothly. I totally recommend Arch for netbooks like mine!

flammenwurfer · 2009-07-08 20:52:58

I have an MSI Wind and I love it. I think it's pretty much the perfect netbook that's available, right now anyways.

Things I like about it: can be overclocked when plugged in, cost only $250, 120GB HDD, 10" is a good screen size, very small and portable.

Things I would change: mine came with a 3 cell batt. that doesn't last very long. I did replace it with a 6 cell though that lasts 4-5 hours.

Considering price, which is very important to me, I dont' think I would buy any other netbook right now. I am looking forward to the next generation of them though, with dual-core processors, better graphics accelerators and hopefully even better battery life.

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