I just went netbook shopping a few weeks ago. I settled on an ASUS Eee PC 1001P for the following reasons:
1) Most recent Atom CPU (N450? medium power, but doesn't eat up the battery like the AMD s_j mentioned) 2) Matte screen (I hate the gloss) 3) Decent keyboard (if it didn't have a glossy screen and a crappy keyboard, I would have gone for the ASUS 1005 instead)
I got a SKU with a 250G HDD, and I bought a 2G barrette of RAM to replace the 1G it came with, the maximum this machine can take. This particular model uses 800mhz RAM as opposed to 667mhz most other netbooks use.
I can't tell about how useful it is so far, as I haven't had time to install anything on it, but I intend to make it my photography computer. We'll see how it handles Photoshop CS4 with that kind of RAM and processor on 12 megapixels photos.
One thing I can't do with this model, which I kinda regret not looking up beforehand, is to turn it into a Hackintosh, as my graphic chipset isn't supported. In the same range, the Dell Mini 10v seems to be supported.
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1) Most recent Atom CPU (N450? medium power, but doesn't eat up the battery like the AMD s_j mentioned)
2) Matte screen (I hate the gloss)
3) Decent keyboard (if it didn't have a glossy screen and a crappy keyboard, I would have gone for the ASUS 1005 instead)
I got a SKU with a 250G HDD, and I bought a 2G barrette of RAM to replace the 1G it came with, the maximum this machine can take. This particular model uses 800mhz RAM as opposed to 667mhz most other netbooks use.
I can't tell about how useful it is so far, as I haven't had time to install anything on it, but I intend to make it my photography computer. We'll see how it handles Photoshop CS4 with that kind of RAM and processor on 12 megapixels photos.
One thing I can't do with this model, which I kinda regret not looking up beforehand, is to turn it into a Hackintosh, as my graphic chipset isn't supported. In the same range, the Dell Mini 10v seems to be supported.