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Posted by JJ
Dec 5, 2008 at 02:56 PM
I did a lot of research and bought the Samsung nc10. (google nc10 review)
It is clearly the best out there today:
*7-8 hour real world battery life
*Great screen
*Great keyboard
*Great WIFI radio
The only thing people complain about is the size of the touchpad… I don’t mind it.
The best deal is to use the Microsoft Live Seach/Ebay/PayPal deal and get 30% back… I paid ~$390!!!
-jj
Posted by Cassius
Dec 5, 2008 at 03:00 PM
RE: Netebooks:
You might be interested in a couple of articles on Netbooks:
Yesterday, I think, the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com) had a discussion about 5 of them in its “Fast Forward” column. It is almost certainly on the net.
Also, PC World magazine recently had a review of a few of them. However, I don’t think the article is on the Web yet. (For http://www.pcmag.com, don’t use its search—it’s worthless. Better to Google. All the netbooks have one or more problems: short battery lives (2+ hr), poor keyboards, slow processors, insufficient memory (at least for those that use chips instead of hard drives.)
Best to wait a bit for improvements. (My current XP machine is a 12” XP Toshiba that I bought 2 years ago; it replaced an even smaller IBM running Win 98 that I bought used. So, for personal use, I waited a long time—skipped Win ME and Win 2000. [But GrandView ran great on the IBM!!!]))
-c
Posted by Hugh
Dec 5, 2008 at 04:07 PM
Here’s a flickr thread that contains a few references* and opinions: http://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart/discuss/72157609675270147/
*including one from last weekend’s Sunday Times: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article5252018.ece
H
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Dec 5, 2008 at 05:15 PM
JJ wrote:
>The best deal is to use the Microsoft Live
>Seach/Ebay/PayPal deal and get 30% back… I paid ~$390!!!
I searched & searched for a price even close to this w/o luck. EXactly how did you manage this? Thanks.
Posted by Ken
Dec 5, 2008 at 05:31 PM
Thanks for the input and the links. I have read way too many articles and blogs for my own good these past few weeks. I do not disagree with many of the concerns or criticisms of netbooks as a whole. But, the NC10 seems to address most of them, yet the unit is often not included in these articles, so its hard to tell if posters or reviewers would concur with my assessment.
—Ken