Favorite netbook?

[abyssknight]

Re: Favorite netbook?

I just picked up a 1000HA for the trip the other day. Only ran me about $300 with the 6 cell battery. For a netbook it certainly is built well, and the upgrade process is dead simple. 2 screws and a little tug on the back panel and you're into the RAM & HDD. Popped the 1 GB DIMM out and replaced it with a 2 GB I ordered with the book. Trackpad buttons are where they belong, and the keyboard seems sturdy enough though a little small. Planning on dual booting for DC17. Thankfully the partition scheme is friendly out of the box.

[Nickolaus]

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I am using the Asus N10J. I thought I would like it more, but its a little weak for me. I knew what I was getting into but I think I am going to pick up the N20 or something comparable. The 9300M card is nice, but I use it maybe 5% of the time. I will probably just end up waiting a bit longer for something as what I want is pricey.

[Melesse]

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I ended up getting the Toshiba NB205. I like it, reasonably, but the networking has kind of been a pain in the ass. The wireless chipset isn't supported in the Linux Kernel Ubuntu uses, so I had to use some backports. Which works. Kind of. For short periods of time. In addition, the ethernet went wonky when I installed the backports.

I'm wiping and reinstalling this weekend anyways, since it's the computer I brought to Defcon, and am going to install a version of linux that includes the newest kernel. *shrugs*

Other than that bit, it's been pretty good. Nice battery life, pretty colors. The 600 pixel tall screen is irritating, especially when trying to check out photographs I took on the trip, but that's mostly a limitation of the form factor, and something I would have to deal with in most netbooks.

I just got an email that says they dropped the price of it to 330$ too. Shame. It only came out a month ago!

Mel

[charliex]

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I picked up the Viliv X70 Ex, enjoying it so far.

[bascule]

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I just got a Mini 9. It ran me ~$260 for 1.6GHz Atom, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD. I have it running OS X. It's pretty pimp.