Really loving netbooks

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I got a couple of these recently for a variety of IM related tasks and so far I'm really loving then. I'm actually posting from one right now. Biggest win is definitely the 8-10 hours of battery life they get and the fact that I can barely feel it on my lap when I'm using it. Anybody else pick one of these up lately? Whats been your experience?
 


What kind?

I'm looking to sell my MacBook Pro and get a desktop (+3 monitors) / netbook (to virtual machine in / e-mail / etc.) combination.
 
Bought my GF a few, ACER was sucky. Sold it. HP was a bit better but the fucking SSD sucks ass and has already died.

I personally am in love with my Dell Laptop and homemade desktop.
 
I have the acer aspire one. It is much slower than my mac, but it gets the job done. Battery lasts for quite a while. If was going to do it all over again, I would have bought a mac book air.
 
Bought the ORIGINAL EEE PC 700 (?) when it first came out in late 2007 ... it was pretty shitty, didn't use it much. Gave it away.

Buy another EEE PC HE1000 July 2009, very awesome ... EXCEPT THE MATTE SCREEN BURNS MY EYES.

Traded for a Aspire One laptop off craigslist, a big downgrade but I'm happy since it's glossy screen and it doesn't burn the fuck outta my eyes.

Netbooks = used for posting on WF while taking a shit.
 
got the asus 1000h
real nice upgraded the hd and ram

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I had one of the Samsung Go's I think it was (before some asshole stole it). Worked really well while I was taking college notes (read: reading Wickedfire)
 
Have a Samsung NC10 which is very useful, extremely reliable and surprisingly capable in running office and automation software.
 
My girlfriend bought me a Dell Mini 10 for Christmas and I've been loving it. Much more convenient than hauling a 16" laptop around with a battery life of ~2 hours.
 
Mini NB205-N325BL Netbooks - Blue - PLL23U-00U01C | Toshiba Direct

Got me one of these and i love it. i cleaned it out and put a fresh Win7 install on it. Love using it for UBot development while on the road.

I pretty much only use it for AM stuff, and try not to bog it down with bloated apps that I don't need. It also seems much speedier after putting Win7 on it. XP and all the crappy Toshiba apps on it were slowing it down. Also, since I don't do a lot of audio listening or video watching on it the battery life is great. Can easily get 8 hours out of it.
 
Loving mine too. It's a Gateway, shiny apple red with 2 Gigs. LOVE the battery...took me 3 days of using it to finally run it down. And with as much as I haul my laptops around every room, it sure is nice. No banging this thing into walls or anything!
 
My then Fiance bought me one two Christmases ago, and personally I love mine. I got an Eee specifically because of the wireless chipset they use, Atheros. I needed something that supported packet injection. I have mine booting backtrack off of it, and it runs great.
 
im on a hp mini 1100 its a cheapy little notebook around 300$ and its decent. It has windows 7 and i think thats the reason why its kinda sluggish. Sometimes any browser i use won't play videos or load pages correctly and crashes the browser and I basically have to restart the computer.

I dunno im not sold on notebooks. You get what you pay for just don't expect to do anything intensive on them. If you plan on doing any work like coding or designing on the go you might as well get a regular laptop.
 
I bought one, its fast and works well. But I hate the fucking thing, the screen is too small. Like Cakes said, useless.
 
I got the Acer 1810T with 4GB of RAM. Nice fast netbook, but I had to send it back due to a bad mainboard. Unfortunately it took Acer two times of me sending it back to figure that out. Acer support sucks.
 
I have an Acer Aspire One and its pretty nice. The SSD is slow as hell but it works for what it is. Some advice to those that have the ones with the SSDs- get a cheap SD card for the expansion bay and get portableapps suite (free). install it on the SD card and you will have an office suite (open office), firefox, aim client, email client, etc. everything youd ever need and it runs fast as hell from the sd card. I just run the OS off of my SSD and its tweaked to boot in under 20 seconds. most of the netbooks slowness comes from windows trying to write to the SSD (SSD's have fast read times but really slow write times). If you turn off your page file and run your apps off of your SD expansion card, you will have one fast ass netbook.
 
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