Best Netbook round up

Wow - what a great choice between intel, intel, intel and uhm lets see, oh yes, intel...

Sometime back Sahara had a VIA based netbook, what happened to those ?
 
What a waste of time, money and totally just a marketing strategy to rename under performing laptops, netbooks.
Rather just buy a laptop for R500 more… or even the same price or less than the netbooks as you can see…
 
Wow - what a great choice between windows, windows, windows and uhm lets see, oh yes, windows...

What a waste of time, money and totally just a marketing strategy to rename under performing laptops, netbooks.

/ends
 
Good point you have there. Perhaps they can be even cheaper if only they came with Linux ?
 
The best netbook is one coming out in 6 months time!

But seriously - where's the newer netbooks in the list? There's not one bigger than 10"?
 
Oh, I don't know, I picked up a demo Asus 1000HE (N280) for about R3000, and after fiddling with it, it now has 2GB RAM, 320GB 7200rpm drive, Windows 7 Home Premium, and a 6 cell 9.5 hour battery life. It has good sound, so is great for Skype, and pretty well runs everything else OK.

I also picked up a cheap Blu-ray R/W slim drive on eBay.

I don't use it for gaming, but I'm sure that some of the older / simpler games would run OK.

BTW : I don't mind the 10" screen, the form factor is great, but I would like a 1366*768 screen - the Sony W netbook has that, although it has other disadvantages, one of the main ones being price !!!
 
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Anyone know of a 10" netbook that has Windows 7 and 3G?

All the 3G ones I've seen are limited to Windows XP.

Thanks.
 
Uli said:
What a waste of time, money and totally just a marketing strategy to rename under performing laptops, netbooks.
Rather just buy a laptop for R500 more… or even the same price or less than the netbooks as you can see…
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Couldn't agree more.

Last time I checked Matrix had one of those HP AMD TurionX2 laptops with one of those new generation BEASTLY-fast ATI GPUs in it, webcam, N-wifi, bluetooth, 2GB RAM (upgrade to 4GB max), decent sized HDD for around R4000.

IMO you are better off with one of those than a netbook. That laptop will start Crysis :eek: (not play it properly mind you, framerates are hideous, however that is still amazing).

And before you ask no I don't work for them, just love that laptop!
 
Why I dont buy in SA - you can get a netbook for R2500 or less in the US with 1Gb RAM and 160Gb harddrive. Just check the prices on amazon.com

I just recently got an Acer with Celeron, 2gb RAM, 160Gb HDD and Windows 7 for just over R2700... we are being ripped off in SA.
Of course you need to ship it here and will likely pay customs... I am lucky enough to get someone else to bring it here for me.
 
Uli said:
What a waste of time, money and totally just a marketing strategy to rename under performing laptops, netbooks.
Rather just buy a laptop for R500 more… or even the same price or less than the netbooks as you can see…
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yeah but its twice the size. I think most people who buy netbooks (including me) buy them not for their power or screen size, but more for their compactness. I use mine to check emails and read blogs, not as a workhorse so its ideal.
 
+1 roger, theres nothing worse than that guy who takes out his cinema size laptop on the plane and sticks his elbows into your ribs lol.
 
Had a netbook for over a year and got a bit annoyed with the small screen, as i was using it at clients every now and then. Got a full sized 15" notebook now and it's too bulky for me.

Thinking of getting something inbetween, like the Lenovo SL300/400 with 13/14" screens respectively.
 
Netbooks vs. laptops vs. ultraportable-on-the-go

Looks like we've got 2 distinct types of netbook users:
  1. the kind who want a small laptop
  2. the kind who want a small, ultra-compact (i.e. pocketable) secondary-or-maybe-"thirdary" computing device
I fall more in the 2nd category, having been through 3 PDAs in the last decade-and-a-bit, and would really appreciate an tiny, instant-on / instant-off PDA-with-a-keyboard that I can use pretty much anywhere, including on a plane. I've looked at new developments such as the psi)(pda, but they're still trying to squeeze a desktop OS onto the device, which I think is probably the part where the project fails...

How's this for a suggestion: screen resolution similar to high-ish-end smartphones, keyboard that works in handheld mode -- thumb-board perhaps?, browser, basic e-mail client, simple text / RTF editor, basic spreadsheet, PIM, WiFi & 3G, and real instant-on/off similar to a Palm3 (or an iPod nano, for the young-'uns who have no idea what I'm on about ;) )
Palm3 battery-life would also be nice, but maybe I'm asking a bit much now...

For the record, I'm happy with my AOA150, upgraded to Win7, as my on-the-go computer, but as for sticking it in my pocket?... well, I guess I'm going to need to upgrade my pockets and my belt first! :)

Thoughts?
 
haaa...I have two netbooks to complement my PC and laptop, the one being the Eee PC 4g (yes the grandaddy of eeepc's) the other one the 904HD eeepc. The eee pc 4g is hardly ever being used.
In short its to small and 4g is just not enough space, yet it does have its uses, its the perfect laptop for go anywhere, do anything due to the fact that it can take quite a pummeling..this when me and the boy's go camping and stuff I always take it along (never really used it yet while camping, but ah whatever being a nerd I just feel safe having some tech with me)
But the 904HD, well even though its not the grandest netbook I found it extremely usefull and use able due to the bigger keyboard, workable screen etc...this bad boy almost never leaves my side while working, the 80gig hard drive provide's adequate space for work+ a couple mp3's etc. So far I was never really to let down by it, its processor proves adequate and even now I'm sitting with two instances of opera sharing roughly 16 tabs, outlook,word,winamp and putty open. The bigger hard drive also provides the possibility to dual boot..but whatever, the only people who hate netbooks are people who dont own a netbook, my netbook almost completlly took over the place my old laptop had in my work place. The ability to just pick it up and take it wherever in an instance is something you dont really get from a 15" laptop.
 
quik said:
Had a netbook for over a year and got a bit annoyed with the small screen, as i was using it at clients every now and then. Got a full sized 15" notebook now and it's too bulky for me.

Thinking of getting something inbetween, like the Lenovo SL300/400 with 13/14" screens respectively.
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My current laptop has a 14" wide screen. I don't really want a bigger screen than that. 14" is perfect. Problem is my laptop is starting to show it's age and while I will attempt to hang onto it for as long as possible I will at some pont need to buy another one. It is so rare to get a decent 14" wide laptop these days as it sems 15.4" has become the new lowest standard.
 
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