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RE: Netbooks

sl0th — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:19:08 GMT

Ordered a ZooStorm 10" netbook for my mum, not a bad little thing.

Could do with having a bigger screen, I imagine about 12/13" is perfect. Good battery life (4 hours) and it's nice and light. Runs quite well for such a little thing, Windows 7 starter.

RE: Netbooks

gr33n — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:44:51 GMT

The only down side is it has windows 7 starter... which for some silly reason wont let you change desktop background without 3rd party software... is there anything like tweakUI for win7?

Im considering partitioning out the drive for 4 OS's: win7 , Linux, Google Chrome and an experimental partition.

other then that the seashell is an awesome netbook if you need something quick and reliable when ur mobile... AND NOT AN APPLE PRODUCT.

RE: Netbooks

Beezer — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:53:55 GMT

That must piss you off

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gr33n — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:12:49 GMT

11+ hours. just wont die sometimes.

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proge — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:16:45 GMT

whats the battery life like?

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lun0s — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:18:24 GMT

Why don't you slap a copy of unix/linux on there. I've heard netbooks are great for linux(forget where/who said it)

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gr33n — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:02:12 GMT

bough an asus eeepc seashell. happy as could be with it, even tho it runz windowz.

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dbdestroyer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:41:05 GMT

i currently use and hp mini 110 it runs windows 7 basic has one gig of ram and runs verry well battery is for like for ever. i find that i preffer to run backtrack on it to wwindows 7 and i got it for under 400

RE: Netbooks

Beezer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:36 GMT

My friend has one of the first gen HP ones. It's not too bad, it has XP on it. But I was lookin' through a local stores mailer mag just yesterday. They upped the specs on the latest ones, and it seems the Eeepc is the best buy of them all. Boosting the most RAM and HDD for the better price.

His I liked, and these look good. I think they are bigger in size, they all say 98% size of normal keyboard on them.

I say go for best bang for the buck cause they're so cheap, and also best battery performance.
They all run Vista Starter now so that's good, and all have VGA out on them.

I like'em. But I'm gonna wait for the 3rd revisions to hit stores, hopefully they'll be able to do some HDMI and HD playback. Perfect for a tiny media center on the go.

RE: Netbooks

lun0s — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:21:31 GMT

Netbooks kick ass...If you got tiny ass fingers, tried typing on one and the keys are so god damn tiny I couldn't type normally let alone imagine programming or having to effeciently type a paper for one of my classes. If you are capable of typing on one of the buggers check out the hardware they offer other wise I'd say don't get one.

Netbooks

gr33n — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:04:47 GMT

So I'm overwhelmed with the amount of netbooks on the market right now, past and future.

any of you have a netbook that you swear by?

I'm looking at buying a eeepc named the seashell, but idk if i can put up with the gay name.
Or possibly a MSI netbook... looking for something under 400, but im willing to part with the paper for awesome features.

I'm losing my mind here, any suggestions?