need quick bit of input, im thinking about getting one of these netbooks instead of the laptop i have and was wondering if anyone has one and how good are they?

cheeRS people

 

Theres one on pc world site for about Ł299 which a few on here had/recommended.

 

I have an Advent 4211 which I love to bits. The only downsides are battery life and no internal cd/dvd drive. I have since bought an external cd drive off ebay for about Ł15 and there is a battery upgrade available for about Ł50 which I'm not to fussed about because mine's attached to the mains most of the time.

 

ive got the daddy of them all, the machine which started off the market, The asus eeec pc, great little product still getting rave reviews and still the best imho

Get it with Linux on it as this was rewritten for it and makes it usable rather than Windows XP which is a bitch to see as everything is far to small.

this is a screen shot of the linux desktop



as long as you accept the limitations of them and realise that are not for writing books or gaming then they are great tech

 

right, a trip to the pc world me thinks.

thanks again ppl

 

Here's my screen shot showing yours, I'm running XP and IE7.

 

im quit use to xp,

 

yeah xp is great, still does everything and its what i use on my desktop pc still

 

got an eee 901 myself, best of the lot IMO, as it has a mega battery life, thats important for me, makes for 2films on a 4hr flight, get about 6hrs play back of video,.

bought the linux one as the same price as the XP model, but you get more storage memory, 16gb, tried linux for 2 weeks but did my head in just couldn't get on with basic / advance modes and all the text boxes, so intalled XP pro sp3 and its all good.

added 2gb ram, and a 16gb SDHC card, plenty of space, nice high res 8.9"

ohh and out of the 8.9" screens netbooks the 901s the smallest another Win

 

Thats the one i was talking about funnily enough, and also its Ł20 less than what i said, so Ł280 bargain

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/158734

 

I've got Vista on my PC and XP on this and I much prefer XP.

 

I dont like vista, purely because i had problems with the smallest of things like a webcam etc, and the general workings of it, xp is much easier/familiar

 

Can you honestly say that XP is suitable for the screen
You can barely see the start bar.



Although I am a massive linux fan, it works so well on the eeec pc and the device was developed with this in mind. If you are remembering the limitations of the device and using it as a netbook you would be silly not to use an OS which is less suspect able to viruses imho.
The keyboard is to small to write books on and the processor is not powerful enough to run games, why would you want to use this limited power to run antivirus, antispyware, and other crap is beyond me

Windows has absolutely no advantage at all on this platform and suffers from consuming more of the already limited power, and more of the limited drive capacity. You can not compare it to an Operating System which was configured specifically to overcome the limitations of such a small screen size.

 

so if i spend Ł280/300 and get it with xp?

 

The one i linked will be spot on mate with xp, it comes preinstalled on it and complete with wireless so you'll be well away straight out the box

 

Windows has the 1 very big advantage, its what people know and are used to, as i said a few posts up, had linux on my 901 for 2 weeks tried my best, but could not get on with it, xandros i think?

put XP on it, and ive not looked back! was going to have it dual bootable, to try and work with linux, may still do in the future, but XP does the job.


Oh and as for games theres a fair few running quake 3, not the latest but nice to have stuff like this on it.


Myself i have a good selection of Mame classic stuff.