Favorite netbook?

[noid]

Re: Favorite netbook?

I'm rockin' the AspireOne. I follow Tnkgrl's blog (I think she's a Defcon attendee too) and she's doing a ton of cool stuff with the AspireOne. I upgraded the drive to a PATA drive. I'm currently doing the embedded GPS and Bluetooth mods. I'm gonna finally wrap it up with a touch screen mod. Its definitely a good hacking platform.

Right now I'm running Windows 7 beta on it because I heard that it ran slicker than shit on netbooks and frankly, they're right. After I get tired of Win7 I'm probably gonna turn it into a Backtrack box.

[The Dark Tangent]

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For just general use im a big fan of the eeepc 1000h, it is a normal hard drive instead of ssd which I like simply because of storage capacity. I have yet to have any problems with it and i like how easy the eeepc line is to modify (built in gps and bluetooth ftw). I dont currently but did run sunxm virtual box on mine with an upgraded 2 gigs of ram and it ran fine. I couldnt do a lot in the virtual machine but if i was just testing an image or something like that it was great. The only beef I have is that the advertised battery life is not even close to accurate for me, however thats true of pretty much any laptop/netbook out there that ive run in to. Overall ive had a great experience with mine though.

I've got a Vaio P, very sleek and sexy, has about everything you could want. It is using an older 1.3Ghz processor (Atom) but the newer models in Japan have the 1.6 already. Some people are reporting success overclocking them to about 1.8.

The downfall for me is that it comes pre-loaded with Vista. An XP upgrade made the system much much faster, but the power management software from Sony will not run under XP, so it is now running hot and the batt live is about 1/2 what it used to be. Windows 7 runs fine on it, and Sony will release drivers for it, so I'll just hold out. I read reports of people working on getting OS/X working on it, as well as all the various Un*x flavors.

The screen resolution is too insane to view without getting a headache, but the 128gig SSD is nice, GPS, 802.11n, etc. Even has a built in EVDO modem that people have hacked to re-flash into HSDPA/EVDO WAN mode. Cheap it is not, but it is a do-all replacement if you can love with 2ggigs max ram and the price tag.

[facon12]

Re: Favorite netbook?

For just general use im a big fan of the eeepc 1000h, it is a normal hard drive instead of ssd which I like simply because of storage capacity. I have yet to have any problems with it and i like how easy the eeepc line is to modify (built in gps and bluetooth ftw). I dont currently but did run sunxm virtual box on mine with an upgraded 2 gigs of ram and it ran fine. I couldnt do a lot in the virtual machine but if i was just testing an image or something like that it was great. The only beef I have is that the advertised battery life is not even close to accurate for me, however thats true of pretty much any laptop/netbook out there that ive run in to. Overall ive had a great experience with mine though.

[streaker69]

Re: Favorite netbook?

What's the best netbook? Discuss. : D

How many of you run vmware on your current book?

Best netbook for what?

Doesn't Tom's Hardware Guide cover this kind of discussion?

[valen]

What's the best netbook? Discuss. : D

How many of you run vmware on your current book?