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!

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[crankyoldman]

My main machine is actually a Dell, but it is a business-class desktop replacement type laptop; heavy, but runs really well. I've had it for five years now and the worst issue I had was I needed to get the graphics card replaced (hence why I got the warranty) due to some stupid on my part. XD It runs the indie art games with lots of graphics that I like to play really well, so it's serving its purpose.

But since this is a netbook and not a beast I need to run other things, I'm probably going outside the Dell family. Thanks for the tips!