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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2010-04-11 05:10 pm

Help me, hivemind!

A bunch of you have netbooks. What do you recommend? I want to get one for my eventual travels: Light, durable, and as powerful as possible within those constraints.

[identity profile] secretsoflife.livejournal.com 2010-04-12 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
i have a wind, and love it. i've also played around with the samsungs, lenovos, hps, and dells and they are all nice.

the only thing with the HPs to watch out for is that they don't allow you to swap out the wifi card due to a software whitelist of only certain cards in the BIOS. this makes me a sad hacker, so don't buy them :(

[identity profile] secretsoflife.livejournal.com 2010-04-12 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
the acers are pretty reliable and diiiiirt cheap. make sure you try the keyboard in person first, they are pretty variable.

oh and check out what Staples has on clearance. they often have awesome deals as they refresh their hardware lines every 3 months or something ludicrous like that.