Netbook Recommendations?

[Robert Maxwell]

I'm always amused by the notion of people buying a computer based on what color it is. I mean, seriously, somebody would pay $40 more for a specific color? People are stupid.

More likely the store lowered the price to try to move the ones that weren't selling as well.

Quiet, the both of you. My good deals depend on the fleeting idea of fashionable and cool!


J.

Hell, I like buying blue computers and stuff. The only DS that was in stock when I was buying one was the blue kind. And they asked me if that was okay. As if...

 

[Sakrysta]

I'm always amused by the notion of people buying a computer based on what color it is. I mean, seriously, somebody would pay $40 more for a specific color? People are stupid.

More likely the store lowered the price to try to move the ones that weren't selling as well.

Quiet, the both of you. My good deals depend on the fleeting idea of fashionable and cool!


J.

I'm a little jealous that you got a blue one. I like my white one, but I think I'd have really liked a blue one.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I'm always amused by the notion of people buying a computer based on what color it is. I mean, seriously, somebody would pay $40 more for a specific color? People are stupid.

More likely the store lowered the price to try to move the ones that weren't selling as well.

Quiet, the both of you. My good deals depend on the fleeting idea of fashionable and cool!


J.

I'm a little jealous that you got a blue one. I like my white one, but I think I'd have really liked a blue one.

Mine is black. I actually had a black desktop PC (monitor, keyboard, mouse, everything) back in 1992. I still have it, in fact. I refuse to get rid of it.

 

[Amaris]

Hell, I like buying blue computers and stuff. The only DS that was in stock when I was buying one was the blue kind. And they asked me if that was okay. As if...

Oh, I agree. Blue is my favorite color (followed by green).
Of course, I just made a show of being mildly disappointed, but hey, you do what you gotta do.

I'm a little jealous that you got a blue one. I like my white one, but I think I'd have really liked a blue one.

It is a very pretty electric blue.

Mine is black. I actually had a black desktop PC (monitor, keyboard, mouse, everything) back in 1992. I still have it, in fact. I refuse to get rid of it.

Is it an Acer?

I remember Acer PCs coming out in the early 90s that were black, and it just shattered the whole beige refrigerator that had been popular up until that point.

J.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Nope, it was built by a little company called ITI. It was a mini-trend, I think. My parents ran a computer store and bought one to sell, and nobody would buy it because they were suspicious of a computer that wasn't beige. I ended up with it.

 

[Amaris]

Nope, it was built by a little company called ITI. It was a mini-trend, I think. My parents ran a computer store and bought one to sell, and nobody would buy it because they were suspicious of a computer that wasn't beige. I ended up with it.

Oh, I see.


J.

 

[Trippy]

My son just opened his black Acer Aspire One and was thrilled! (he even hugged it a while )

 

[Amaris]

My son just opened his black Acer Aspire One and was thrilled! (he even hugged it a while )

Aw.

I remember when I got mine I was excited. A few years before I had owned a very used IBM Thinkpad (those never die!), it had an 800mhz celeron and 512 mb RAM. I used it to surf the net and watch DVD movies (it had a DVD Rom on it surprisingly enough), and it was tough as nails. I eventually sold it for $200 because the battery would only last 10 minutes in between recharges. So the Aspire was a huge step up for me. It's so easy to carry around and so lightweight and for what it is, quite powerful! So I hope he enjoys it.

J.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Hell, I like buying blue computers and stuff. The only DS that was in stock when I was buying one was the blue kind. And they asked me if that was okay. As if...

Oh, I agree. Blue is my favorite color (followed by green).
Of course, I just made a show of being mildly disappointed, but hey, you do what you gotta do.

I'm a little jealous that you got a blue one. I like my white one, but I think I'd have really liked a blue one.

It is a very pretty electric blue.

Mine is black. I actually had a black desktop PC (monitor, keyboard, mouse, everything) back in 1992. I still have it, in fact. I refuse to get rid of it.

Is it an Acer?

I remember Acer PCs coming out in the early 90s that were black, and it just shattered the whole beige refrigerator that had been popular up until that point.

J.

I have the same one, I consider it "TARDIS blue".

I love my netbook. It does pretty much everything I want it to. The keyboard took about a day to get used to because I'm used to not looking at the keyboard when I type and the keys are a lot closer together with it. Now I'm probably as fast on it as I am on any keyboard. I've been meaning to upgrade the RAM, but ACER made it a little difficult to do. Still it is a great machine and I love to carry it around with me everywhere. Which is something that is a hassle with regular notebooks, which are huge and heavy.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I love my netbook. I'm not a techno person, so I have no idea how it ranks. I got a Compaq Notebook from Best Buy for $179. It has an Intel Atom, and Windows XP. I was there on Black Friday. I was actually there because I knew that the HP laptop wioth Windows 7 that they were offering was "the deal" but secretly, as a wrioter, I really wanted this. They ran out of tickets for the full laptop (which was going for an astonishing $197) but I got a ticket for this notebook computer, and I knew that it was what I wanted. Now I can curl up on the couch and write my novel, without a bulky computer. I don't play a lot of games like WoW anymore, but if I wanted to I can use my desktop. Seriously, this Notebook is perfect for me. Well worth every penny.

 

[Shaytan]

I have an ASUS EeePC 900. Really, I don't think you can go wrong with ASUS or Acer netbooks.

That.
I chose an EeePC1000H because it's easier to install Linux on an Asus.

 

[Trippy]

Mine is the same one as J.'s too. I love my little blue netbook (pats affectionately). I love the 'fit in the purse' size and that I can use it in bed (which I am currently, or in the living room watching my son play his new video games

 

[Amaris]

I have the same one, I consider it "TARDIS blue".

I love my netbook. It does pretty much everything I want it to. The keyboard took about a day to get used to because I'm used to not looking at the keyboard when I type and the keys are a lot closer together with it. Now I'm probably as fast on it as I am on any keyboard. I've been meaning to upgrade the RAM, but ACER made it a little difficult to do. Still it is a great machine and I love to carry it around with me everywhere. Which is something that is a hassle with regular notebooks, which are huge and heavy.

Heh. I never even thought about adding RAM. I must be getting senile in my old age.

I love my netbook. I'm not a techno person, so I have no idea how it ranks. I got a Compaq Notebook from Best Buy for $179. It has an Intel Atom, and Windows XP. I was there on Black Friday. I was actually there because I knew that the HP laptop wioth Windows 7 that they were offering was "the deal" but secretly, as a wrioter, I really wanted this. They ran out of tickets for the full laptop (which was going for an astonishing $197) but I got a ticket for this notebook computer, and I knew that it was what I wanted. Now I can curl up on the couch and write my novel, without a bulky computer. I don't play a lot of games like WoW anymore, but if I wanted to I can use my desktop. Seriously, this Notebook is perfect for me. Well worth every penny.

Just for the record, I have played WoW on my netbook.
With lots of people on at once, it's a bit choppy, but once you're out of the highly populated areas, it performs quite well.

Mine is the same one as J.'s too. I love my little blue netbook (pats affectionately). I love the 'fit in the purse' size and that I can use it in bed (which I am currently, or in the living room watching my son play his new video games

I love the fit in purse style t-, uh, that must be nice.

J.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I played WoW on my netbook, too. Performance is pretty decent.

Hell, I even played it on my UMPC at one point, and it performed fine, though it was kinda hard to play on such a small screen.

 

[Amaris]

I played WoW on my netbook, too. Performance is pretty decent.

Hell, I even played it on my UMPC at one point, and it performed fine, though it was kinda hard to play on such a small screen.

"What is that?"
"Well, it's either an Orc, or the ugliest inn keeper I've ever seen."

J.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I played WoW on my netbook, too. Performance is pretty decent.

Hell, I even played it on my UMPC at one point, and it performed fine, though it was kinda hard to play on such a small screen.

"What is that?"
"Well, it's either an Orc, or the ugliest inn keeper I've ever seen."

J.

Yeah, pretty much! It was also impossible to play without a keyboard. Even if I didn't want to chat to people, the lack of hotkeys was the big bummer.

WoW has exceedingly low requirements, in any case. Any computer you bought right now would be able to play it decently.

 

[Amaris]

I played WoW on my netbook, too. Performance is pretty decent.

Hell, I even played it on my UMPC at one point, and it performed fine, though it was kinda hard to play on such a small screen.

"What is that?"
"Well, it's either an Orc, or the ugliest inn keeper I've ever seen."

J.

Yeah, pretty much! It was also impossible to play without a keyboard. Even if I didn't want to chat to people, the lack of hotkeys was the big bummer.

WoW has exceedingly low requirements, in any case. Any computer you bought right now would be able to play it decently.

Agreed. The only thing, in fact, that bogs down is the onboard graphics chip, and that's easily remedied by a $20 upgrade.

J.

 

[Capn Flukie]

I've never read about people hugging their computers so much in all my life.

*hugs his lenovo*

 

[Amaris]

I've never read about people hugging their computers so much in all my life.

*hugs his lenovo*

Those never die!


J.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I have the same one, I consider it "TARDIS blue".

I love my netbook. It does pretty much everything I want it to. The keyboard took about a day to get used to because I'm used to not looking at the keyboard when I type and the keys are a lot closer together with it. Now I'm probably as fast on it as I am on any keyboard. I've been meaning to upgrade the RAM, but ACER made it a little difficult to do. Still it is a great machine and I love to carry it around with me everywhere. Which is something that is a hassle with regular notebooks, which are huge and heavy.

Heh. I never even thought about adding RAM. I must be getting senile in my old age.

Well to do it, you need to remove the keyboard, motherboard, hard drive, and pretty much everything else. Even then one stick is soldered in place, so you can only upgrade it to 1.5Gb at most.