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11-21-09
Spend the extra money and get a macintosh. you'll be suppor ... Milesd77
11-21-09
I think that hp's are the best out there for the money. how ... Elevick
11-21-09
I recommend you check out computer audiophile website. grea ... Tgrisham
11-21-09
Agree with the mac recommendation. switched to apple comput ... Buff
11-22-09
Npr reported a new research study on laptop reliability and ... Lapierre
11-22-09
From digital trends: squaretrade is in the business of offe ... Prpixel
11-22-09
Be serious, pick the mac, which is the choice of most people ... Buconero117
11-22-09
Thanks to all for your time and input. some good leads to f ... Ghosthouse
11-22-09: Prpixel
I wasn't suggesting that he buy a SquareTrade warrenty. I was only quoting and analysis of the failure rate of laptops that are insured by squaretrade.
He's only going to use this to listen to internet radio, pandora and do some lite surfing. So, there's no need for a lot of processing power and audio quality because less important when listening to compressed streams. Any Netbook will work, just make sure to get one with at least 2GB of RAM. If your going to be listening to streams, then a large and fast hard drive is unimportant and the standard 160GB 5400 RPM drive is more than adequate. I've owned netbooks from HP, MSI and ASUS. I've stuck with the ASUS. Also, I have a fiend that's owned netbooks from HP, Lenovo and Sumsung and ultra-portables from Fujitsu and Sony. The ultra-portables are way over priced for what you use them for. All of the netbooks pretty much use the same hardware so it just comes down to who's name you want on yours.
One thing you might want to consider is getting one with a 11.x" or 12.x" screen; surfing on an 8" or 10" can be a little hard on the eyes. Finally, if you want something with a little more kick, look at the units based on the Ion chipset or the CULV standard. The CULV standard also allows for up to 4GB of RAM.
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11-22-09
Yeah, we mac bigots are obnoxious about it, right? as prpi ... Sfar
11-22-09
Fwiw, i have windows-based laptops made by sager and by asus ... Almarg
11-22-09
Apple clearly makes beautiful hardware, but for those of us ... Cwlondon
11-22-09
I've spent a lot of time with hp's (3 in the office/house). ... Elevick
11-22-09
As i understand it, if you're a tweaker and into optimizing ... Elf73
11-22-09
that is a common experience among windows pc users, but it n ... Almarg
11-23-09
Apple is no more reliable than average pc http://www.theinq ... Semi
11-23-09
Once again, thanks to all for your generously given input. Ghosthouse
12-07-09
Fwiw...went with asus 1005ha with windows 7 and 2gb crucial ... Ghosthouse
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