I bought PDANet. It's totally worth it.

3/24/2009 5:12:23 PM

posting from my mini right now, I love this thing. I have big hands and havent had a problem typing so far.

3/24/2009 5:14:47 PM

I use WMWifiRouter and the ICS built in to window mobile

3/24/2009 6:42:01 PM

^i cant. mine is a verizon phone and those features are locked/nonexistent. ics doesnt show up in my settings at all.

3/24/2009 8:04:31 PM

any good deals lately?

4/12/2009 5:16:01 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/11/gigabyte-t1028-netbook-tablet-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/

I shoulda waited for a tablet netbook. Be great to have the touchscreen tablet aspect too on a netbook.

4/13/2009 6:45:43 PM

^it is slightly a different animal, but you could almost get a multi-touch hp tx2 laptop at that price.. netbooks supposed to be cheap

these are pretty sexy too if they make it to the market at that anticipated price


http://i.gizmodo.com/5205929/crunchpad-photos-of-techcrunchs-delicious-web-tablet?skyline=true&s=x


[Edited on April 13, 2009 at 7:54 PM. Reason : .]

4/13/2009 7:51:12 PM

about to try windows 7 on my samsung NC-10. Anything i should know before i do? What works? What doesn't?

4/14/2009 10:04:44 PM

Dell has the Vostro A90 (a black Mini 9) for $200 currently

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-vostro-a90?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

if it had a longer battery life and wouldn't take a month to get here i'd have got it

as it is, i ended up getting tired of waiting and grabbed a EEE PC 901 of amazon

4/19/2009 9:50:07 AM

Gimp runs pretty well on my netbook if anyone needs to do any photo editing.

4/22/2009 2:42:30 PM

i don't understand dell.

if you're ordering a whole new computer, mini9 or vostro, you can get a 32g ssd and 9 cell battery (allegedly, i have yet to find where you can upgrade to the better battery even though they advertise it on the page)...but you can't just order one by itself. you can get a 16g ssd or another 4 cell battery.

4/22/2009 3:31:50 PM

anybody tried out the new ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix on their netbook? i'm considering putting it on my Eee PC 1000HD.

4/23/2009 9:10:39 PM

is this a trap?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-EEEPC1000HD-Eee-PC-XP-10-LCD-120GB-HDD-Netbook_W0QQitemZ330324964505QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLaptops_Nov05?hash=item330324964505&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50

4/24/2009 11:14:47 PM

^ why do you want a netbook with a harddrive?

4/24/2009 11:22:11 PM

because i have an hp dv-8000 laptop

shit weighs as much as a cinderblock, the battery is shot, the charger is loose.

it does not need to be moved if at all avoidable

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/hp-pavilion-dv8000/4507-3121_7-31563915.html?tag=mncol;psum

4/24/2009 11:38:35 PM

^^i would much rather have my 160GB hdd with my Samsung than a 8-16 GB ssd. I still want to be able to watch movies/music and store photos on it. I would be horribly limited with only 8GBs of storage.

4/25/2009 12:37:29 AM

also good luck dual-booting OS' or even installing a full Vista/W7 install on one of those tiny SSDs

netbook with a regular sized harddrive is really not that bad of an idea

4/25/2009 1:38:46 AM

^oh yeah, xp and win7 on mine too. no way doing that with an 8 GB ssd. I have a 6-cell 5-7 hour battery anyway, and the ssd doesn't' provide THAT much battery savings.

4/25/2009 6:43:43 AM

I have read up on SSDs and basically the main benefit so far is less likelihood of mechanical failure. This sounds very appealing because I have never had a laptop that has not required a HDD replacement at some point but still not enough to trade in 152 or 144 gigabytes for.

No one is saying power consumption is lower, just that the computer runs quieter.

I was thinking about how SSDs will probably rapidly develop in to large capacity the same way flash memory has and my notebook would become worthless in a year due to the SSD inside not having enough storage.

4/25/2009 8:39:28 AM

I can't hear my hdd unless i'm really close and in a quiet room. But yeah i didn't want to buy a ssd if the capacity in the next year or so will make mine worthless.

4/25/2009 12:55:10 PM

anyone installed Windows 7 on a stock EEE PC (1gb RAM, 16GB SSD)?

wondering on what, if anything, i'd need to upgrade or if it could even be done

4/25/2009 5:49:17 PM

I just assumed people bought netbooks, to use in addition to their normal desktop or laptop. Not replace it.

4/26/2009 10:17:49 AM

Yeah i haven't used my laptop since i got my netbook. Probably because my laptop is old and weighs a ton. I'm sure if i had a newer laptop i might use it more, but i'm able to do everything i need to on my netbook.

4/26/2009 3:33:11 PM

mine is supposed to be here by 3

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/hpnetbook/overview.jsp

5/19/2009 11:38:19 AM

^^^^Your hard drive? and an external dvd drive

W7 can be installed in that amount of space but honestly it's going to grow to take up a lot of that space unless you want to google around in the forums and learn all the specific files/settings to remove/change to reduce OS footprint

[Edited on May 19, 2009 at 12:43 PM. Reason : ]

5/19/2009 12:42:52 PM

this is my first post from a netbook

keyboard is gonna take some getting used to

5/19/2009 1:17:54 PM

hid tool bars
put taskbar on autohide
put ie on full screen mode

much better

5/19/2009 1:20:15 PM

hope when you see the deals at christmas that you do not get upset

5/19/2009 1:21:04 PM

The 901 EEEPC series has a problem with battery shelf life. Fully charged, it will run a good 4 hours of use. Put it on away, turned off, and it will run itself dead in under 7 days. If you plan to use it unplugged, plan ahead and leave it plugged in the night before.

5/19/2009 1:41:22 PM

is the intel moorestown slated to be a netbook proc? i know they're talking about it using 10% the power of the atom (.2w vs 2w)...add to that DDR3, HD graphics, SATA, USB, and PCIe and it looks like a damn nice chip for a netbook (especially since the chip is supposed to be 1/4? the size of the atom)

i know LG has already said they're making a smartphone with the new chip

5/19/2009 2:27:09 PM

http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1528809

5/19/2009 10:20:55 PM

Quote :

"Asus Eee PC 900 Black Netbook, 900 MHz Intel Mobile CPU, 1GB DDR2, 16GB solid state disk, 8.9" Display, Windows XP Home"

$199

great deal or no?

5/22/2009 8:01:10 AM

Quote :

"hope when you see the deals at christmas that you do not get upset"

I got it for 199.99 with $29.99 internet service, the internet is built in.

5/22/2009 10:42:21 PM

Just picked up a Hackbook and love it.

Dell Mini 9, OSX 10.5.7, 1GB RAM, 16 GB SDD and 16 GB SDHC card

Everything works perfectly with the OS, even webcam and audio. Can play .wmv and .mov videos that are 960x540 with no problem. Probably won't even make the $28 upgrade for 2GB of RAM.

5/31/2009 2:00:56 PM

whats the deal with the speed of these things? seems like they are stuck at 1.6 and can't get any faster

5/31/2009 10:50:24 PM

^ you'll notice that most of them have similar processors.

5/31/2009 10:51:58 PM

precisely. why hasn't a 2.0ghz or higher been created yet?

5/31/2009 10:58:55 PM

because it's not necessary for the intended use of a netbook

shoot, a slower dual-core proc is much more usable than a faster single-core proc...i'm waiting for moorestown netbooks before i'll look at them

6/1/2009 9:25:20 AM

Personally, I'm waiting for the new generation of netbooks that will come with the Nvidia ION graphics...

It would do a netbook some good since my netbook is used for some video streaming and a little bit of on-the-road flash gaming. Which, sux0rz on intel graphics.

From Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1229608554532.html

Third Party opinion: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/25/because-of-the-nvidia-ion-lenovos-ideapad-s12-will-be-halfway-decent/

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 9:46 AM. Reason : linky]

6/1/2009 9:45:39 AM

Just picked up one of the new Acer Aspire One 751H's with the 11.6" screen. Still need to wipe Vista off and install Win7 but just getting rid of the bullshit McAfee made a HUGE improvement. I wasn't too sure about the 1.3 processor but so far it's running great. Keyboard is full size too but it's the chicklet style keys that are completely flat instead of having the raised keys. Still getting used to that part. 250gb hdd, 2gb RAM, 1366x768 and still small/light enough to make it worth carrying around.

6/9/2009 8:55:50 PM

Anyone think it's worth waiting for the S12?

6/10/2009 11:23:52 AM

S12 looks hot. With nvidia Ion right?

6/10/2009 11:40:28 AM

Well, took the 751h back. Loaded Win7 on it and had some issues on resume where it would display the full desktop. Sucks though, it was pretty nice otherwise. Vista was too slow to keep on it or I would have kept it around.

Wonder when Asus' 11.6" model will be out. Anyone heard any news on it?

6/12/2009 7:51:43 PM

Didn't get the 1000HA much earlier.

sellout.woot.com has the refurbed EEE 900 w/ 16GB SSD & 1GB RAM, running XPh, for $180 + $5 s/h in black and white. Is this worth it, or keep fishing?

6/15/2009 1:37:52 PM

this may be answered somewhere in the 6 pages but for the sake of my sanity, i'm going to ask

i just got the hp netbook through verizon. i'd like to get an external dvd player to use with it as i travel a lot and it would be nice to have that flexability

OR should i get an external HD and just rip my dvds to it? my only concern there is that i'd rip them to my mac, put them on the hd then use them on the netbook. i know in the past when i hook up a new external hd to my mac, it asks me how i want to configure it (mac or pc)

would the back and forth cause any problems? i wouldn't mind the time spent ripping the dvds to an external hd, plus its more versatile than a portable external dvd player

help me figure it out!

6/16/2009 12:00:44 PM

without 3rd party software - fat32 is your only option - shouldn't be a problem as long as you are ripping and compressing because fat32 has a 4gb file size limit - it doesn't make a lot of sense to store a 1:1 image copy of the dvd on your hdd anyways unless you are wanting a true backup

6/16/2009 12:12:08 PM

external 2.5" laptop hdd and rip dvds to it, definitely

6/16/2009 12:16:37 PM

yeah i didn't specifically say it - but the best solution is to get a hdd unless you actually need to be able to read dvd/cd media on a regular basis

6/16/2009 12:23:09 PM

^^^^ +1 for the external hard drive...but if you really wanted an optical drive, here's a USB-powered slimline burner for $50 with free shipping (using coupon EMCLTMT24)

6/16/2009 12:53:37 PM

^^^^ +1 for the external hard drive...but if you really wanted an optical drive, here's a USB-powered slimline burner for $50 with free shipping (using coupon EMCLTMT24)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151178

6/16/2009 12:53:37 PM