Netbook

[peggygee]

got eee pc 904ha
uses the body of 1000 but screen is smaller at 8.9"

Overall I like it, few minor things that I did not like.

If you willing to spend extra 100, bestbuy selling
Dell - Inspiron Laptop for $450.

Intel® Pentium dual-core
3gb ram [expandable to 8GB.]
250gb hard drive
14" screen
(5lbs) weight

http://bit.ly/6GFeOM

but what's the battery life on that dell laptop?
the 6 hour range of most netbooks w/ a 6 cell battery is hard to beat.

I got rid of a 14" Gateway with a sub-par battery life of 2+ hours, was rated for 4, but never happened, it was 4.7 pounds.

Have a 2nd Asus, 14 inch screen, 4+ pounds, gives me 7 hours of run time,
but I still find myself carrying the Netbook consistently.

[kukm4]

my netbook came with 6cell. At the time they were claiming 7hrs which I knew was not gonna happen.

It came with Xp home, with wifi on I get about 4-4 1/2 hours.

[mrbrutal]

I have one of the first generation acer aspire one and its time to upgrade that to a newer netbook. It was great for a while but the keyboard started getting smaller as well as the screen. It was a 9" model with 160GB drive. The solid state drives are nice and fast but space was an issue when running XP

Most of the models out there are pretty good nowadays. I would reccommend getting one with at least 2 gb, Win 7, 10" or bigger screen, and by all means a 6-cell or larger battery. You can install mac os on the dells. Ive read it works great

[sizequeen]

gotta be careful w/ hackintosh
the latest snow leopard update removes support for atom processor based netbooks so you'd need to avoid that update

i do hear that dell's are relatively easy to convert and run mac os

[sizequeen]

I pulled the trigger on this one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ima...=273V8DJNJZHID

HP Mini 110-1109NR 10.1-Inch
HP has 6 cell batteries on sale, that plus a coupon, plus Bing cash back and I got a good netbook + 2 batteries

looks like Amazon is clearing out their stock of XP netbooks. prices are starting to dip under $300 for a few models & brands

[kukm4]

Nice
yeah they prob. making room for hp mini 311.

Hope you enjoy your netbook.

[sizequeen]

the hp mini 311 is sweet
pricey, but sweet

[peggygee]

gotta be careful w/ hackintosh
the latest snow leopard update removes support for atom processor based netbooks so you'd need to avoid that update

i do hear that dell's are relatively easy to convert and run mac os

I'd like to hackintosh a netbook, have done some desktops.

Would be great to have something as small as Air, but at a
Netbook price.

[peggygee]

gotta be careful w/ hackintosh
the latest snow leopard update removes support for atom processor based netbooks so you'd need to avoid that update

i do hear that dell's are relatively easy to convert and run mac os

I'd like to hackintosh a netbook, have done some desktops.

Would be great to have something as small as Air, but at a
Netbook price.

[sizequeen]

i'd convert mine, but everything i own is windows so having a single mac os machine (without a dvd drive for that matter) would be a little weird

but it's white so it looks macish, right?