I have an HP mini 1000 with a 16GB SSD. I love it. just use it for net browsing and e-mail and the solid state drive is a little more travel friendly plus the darn thing weights next to nothing.

I keep a black armor external drive for file backups.

Only thing I would recommend is to spend the 40 bucks and drop some extra ram in there it makes it easier to work with.

 

CT, how much does that cost?

 

300.00 plus 40 for ram and 70 for the external drive. Some people also buy an external optial drive since these things are too small for disk drives, but if you can work off of flash drives like this one (totally bullet proof tough flash drive) you can do without it.

and the keyboard is 92% of normal keyboard size so it's really not difficult at all to type on.

 

Thanks for the info, that's not bad at all. Now if I may ask, it may be a dumb question, but what's the difference between a Netbook and the usual laptop?

 

This should help out a bit:
http://www.intel.com/consumer/learn/netbook.htm

 

I'm looking to get a netbook too.

Does anyone know if you can run any of the excel, word, outlook or power point programs on them?

Think says netbooks can't run complex Office programs but what about the simple ones I mentioned?

 

I'm going to load office 2007 enterprise onto it if it kills it I'll report back.

 

I just found this video

Touch screen tablet netbook. Very interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFwyMwz9Bc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Easustablet%2Ecom%2Fasus%2Deee%2Dpc%2Dt101h%2Dspecifications%2F&feature=player_embedded


ASUS EEE-PC-T91
http://www.asustablet.com/asus-t91/latest-news/

 

Quick update, if you go with a SSD drive like mine loading office is a long task instead I just stuck a SD card in the slot and installed office to that card.

It's a calculated risk I'm willing to take because I almost never deal with SD cards on their own I use a flash drive 99% of the time and where I may need an alternative I have a multi-card reader in my laptop bag.

If you go with a standard drive, I've seen 160GB on several of them you shouldn't run into too many problems.

Most of those are right in the range that my HP is, I've historically had mixed results with Dells as I've probably bought about 20 of them total. The one thing with mine and the Dell mini's is the they all have a three cell battery.

A good friend of mine just picked up this nice little Samsung 10.2" for 399 but it comes with a 6 cell battery.

 

I have an Acer Aspire 1 and I run Microsoft Office 2007 on it with no problems.