Netbook

[crankyoldman]

As congratulations for getting into grad school and also to help me with said grad school, my parents are going to get me a netbook. As I've mostly been doing calculations lately making sure that I will have enough to eat the next two years, I actually have utterly no idea what kind of netbook I'd want to get. This would actually be really helpful, as my current laptop is essentially used as a desktop (it's far too large and bulky to be moving around much, the advantage of it being a laptop is that I seem to move once every couple of years and desktops are harder to move).

Anyway, so anyone that has a netbook or other extremely lightweight laptop, what are your suggestions? I mainly need something that will take good notes, allow me to do a bit on the web, and write papers and things. Looking for good battery life, Windows, light weight, and a minimum of fuckery. If it's on the cheaper side (without being shit), that's also nice, as I don't want them to spend a lot (they're sort of moving to Maryland, and thus their cost of living is going to go up).


So yeah, lemme know!

Comments

[yukie]

I use an Asus EEE and got it off TigerDirect, which is a BLOODY AMAZING discount/warehousy-type electronics site. Asus makes some really good stuff.

I bought this kind because my nerdoriffic friend Roadbusta recced it and because its graphics aren't integrated--meaning I can watch youtubey stuff on it without the endless lag from hell.

Hope that at least slightly helped XD

[crankyoldman]

It's looking to be between an Asus EEE and a Toshiba Mini judging by the comments from people, thanks for the tip!