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Cheap Laptop Comparisons from Consumer Reports
PostPosted:Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:05 pm
by Flip
PostPosted:Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:37 pm
by Kupek
Nitpick: I wouldn't call these "cheap laptops." These are netbooks (or ultraportables), which I consider a different class of machine.
PostPosted:Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:27 pm
by Tessian
Yeah the eePC's are a whole different class-- designed to be ultra portable and ultra cheap laptops. You can't really use them for what most people need a computer for day-to-day, but they're still cool and have their own purpose.
PostPosted:Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:52 pm
by bovine
I have the aspire one. It was me. I still enjoy it as a companion to my desktop. On its own it would probably be the most awful purchase ever.
PostPosted:Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:52 pm
by Flip
bovine wrote:I have the aspire one. It was me. I still enjoy it as a companion to my desktop. On its own it would probably be the most awful purchase ever.
But, for the general public who only uses word, excel, and surfs the Internet... it would be a good purchase i assume?
PostPosted:Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:05 am
by bovine
yeah, it's great, fast, amazing battery life (6+ hours), and I have open office and firefox on it to do schooly stuff. Screen is tiny, and the bilingual canadian keyboard makes the little keyboard even more of a hassle, but if you count its tiny-ness as an asset, then it's pretty much a great companion laptop.
enjoy this picture to show you the scale versus the 19 inch monitor and adorable yuki nendoroid.
PostPosted:Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:06 am
by Tessian
It may be able to do all the basics that a lot of people only use like internet and word processing, but it'll take a specific kind of person to WANT to work off of a computer that small. Older people I doubt would enjoy squinting at the 10" screen trying to find the keys on the smaller keyboard. Can you even hook up an external monitor and/or keyboard/mouse?
PostPosted:Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:38 am
by Oracle
Jesus Christ, Chris. What is that poster behind your monitor?
PostPosted:Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:49 am
by Kupek
I invite Bovine to correct me, but I imagine you don't want to do much work with a netbook. Any non-trivial amount of writing or data entry would probably become old fast. I see netbooks as web browsing and communication (email, IM, voice and video chat) devices.
PostPosted:Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:50 am
by bovine
Tessian wrote:It may be able to do all the basics that a lot of people only use like internet and word processing, but it'll take a specific kind of person to WANT to work off of a computer that small. Older people I doubt would enjoy squinting at the 10" screen trying to find the keys on the smaller keyboard. Can you even hook up an external monitor and/or keyboard/mouse?
there's a vga out and three usb ports, so you can jimmy any sort of custom setup that you want out of it.
Oracle wrote:Jesus Christ, Chris. What is that poster behind your monitor?
it's a tokidoki poster from a kidrobot order that I made. There was free shipping to Canada and then one thing led to another and BAM! tokidoki poster on my wall.
PostPosted:Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:52 am
by Flip
Oracle wrote:Jesus Christ, Chris. What is that poster behind your monitor?
it's a tokidoki poster from a kidrobot order that I made. There was free shipping to Canada and then one thing led to another and BAM! tokidoki poster on my wall.
How do all the super hot college chicks feel about tokidoki?