Netbooks - who uses 'em and what

should one look for in 'em. I'm looking for an easier alternative when I travel than to tote my laptop. Mostly for e-mails and surfing. Also going overseas and want some resolution for maps.

Any hints or tips?

I have a dell mini 10v. Great little machine. If you have the cash, max the thing out (mem, processor, etc.) If you can get a dual core even better.

Five Star 3-subject...works very well.

Get one with a real hard drive. Other than that they are sweet. I've also got the Dell mini.

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Five Star 3-subject...works very well.

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Do you have to plug it in to get email or is it blue tooth capable?

Check out some reviews.

Best Netbooks - CNET Reviews

Unless you have petite fingers, try and get a net book with close to regular sized keys. I use a dell inspiron mini and love it.

I bought my son in college an Acer 11.6 " notebook in September, something like an Aspire 751h model at Buy.com. It has an actual hard drive, can have more than 1 GB ram, and runs on Windows (received the windows 7 home premium upgrade in the mail a couple of weeks ago). Better than a netbook, but didn't cost much more.

I just got a Dell Mini 10v. It's very handy, but if I had it to do over again, I would have opted for XP instead of Windows 7 Starter. It's my own fault for not researching it, I assumed it was a simpler version for netbooks. Instead it is a featureless version designed to anger you into an $80 upgrade to the full version. Can't run more than 3 programs simultaneously (not a HUGE issue on a netbook), won't let you initiate the setup of a home network for file sharing, won't even let you set a custom desktop background. It does other things fine, but I paid $10 extra to upgrade to Windows 7 Starter. I should have bought a sixer of Fat Tire and stuck with a fully featured XP SP3.

I have an ASUS EeePC 1050, 10.5 hour battery life. 2 GB Ram. 160 GB hard drive.

I use it when I travel. Great for email and surfing. I only utilize internet based apps or apps that I can download from the net. I have not installed MS office, I only use Google Docs. It's limited in what it can do but it's a great computer for it's designed purpose. I'm running XP, hate the OS, wish it was Mac OS X. Oh well...

Thanks for the ideas and links....

Acer Aspire One 8.9" screen. Wish I had gone with the HD and not the SSD.

Emails, surfing (Chrome seems like the best browser performance wise on mine) and I keep our iTunes music catalog on a 16GB sd card on it.

Not a speed demon, but works well as our third laptop.

MSI Wind Hackitoshed to run 10.5 :)

i hate the small keyboards as i have somewhat large fingers. i guess thats one of the tradeoffs of having a tiny computer

I like my HP Mini with the solid state drive. It only has about 8 gigs free because XP uses about 8. However, I can put in an SD card for another 8 gigs free or attach an external hard drive. I don't know if SSD was the way to go or not, but I don't need a big hard drive for a mobile machine.