Help me, hivemind!

[sabotabby]

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.

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[esizzle.livejournal.com]

depends on the budget
if u are lookin for soemthing cheap, get the acers and then by the time they warranty runs out and they break, u can get a another one cuz they are cheap enuff

if u have the budget for something pricier, i have a dell mini10 that is wroking out pretty nicely. and i've heard good things about the eee

if u are just using it for internet..microsoft office..etc then u might as well get the ubuntu operating system instead of windows, the performance is better and the interface is not too different. if u are using more complex applications (like photoshop or something) then stay with Windows if u don't want to learn ubuntu.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

also you'll wanna backup all your data on those things, so if u don't have existing backup procedures in place, u'll wanna account for it in your budget..like if u need to buy an external hard drive or some USB keys or something...

[sabotabby]

Oh, I back up everything. External hard drive for Mac the Knife, USB keys for everything else.

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

for stuff that you are ok with being stored in the ol US of A, dropbox.com is also very nice.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

if u are just using it for internet..microsoft office..etc then u might as well get the ubuntu operating system instead of windows, the performance is better and the interface is not too different.

I actually found the interface (at least on the netbook remix) to be more Mac-like than Windows-like, but that was a plus from my perspective. :-)

And I was surprised to find the learning curve really minimal - it was very, very easy to get used to. Most programs work pretty much exactly like their Mac or Windows equivalents, and anything that didn't was fairly self-explanatory. Also, the installer was a thing of beauty - really easy, streamlined, intuitive, fully explained any decisions I needed to make, and pretty to look at as well.

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

Where do you get the idea that a Dell Mini is more reliable than an Acer Aspire One? My track record with Dell tells me that Dell is shit, while my AA0 hasn't had a single problem.

[sabotabby]

Yeah, we have Dells at work. Granted, they're being abused by children all day, but I still think they're shit.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

out of 5 aspire ones i bought last year 2 had to be taken back for warranty. i have like 3 dell laptops that accumulated over the past 10 years and they all still run. with technology usually there's a reason between price differences.