1200-4000 dollar netbooks? Where are you shopping? Netbooks aren't supposed to be speed demons, or 4000 dollars. For what she described as needing, an MSI Wind would work great.
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:03 AM, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote: > > Betty how familiar are you with a Netbook? > >> >> My son has one it runs just about everything I can run on my Dell full >> size. >> >> They are very versatile and work very well. >> > > I tried one of the early netbooks in Europe. They were excellent. I'm very > disappointed at the merely crippled small cheap notebooks that pass as > netbooks now. Tried several. I wouldn't recommend them. They're not much > more portable than a smaller notebook and less versatile than the original > netbooks two years ago. > > Most of all, they don't fit in my cargo pocket, therefore they're kind of > pointless for traveling light. I'd rather carry either my MacBook or iPod > Touch or Nokia E- or N-series smart phone, which are more useful to me. Yes, > Apple has spoiled me. So has Nokia, for its quality devices. > > For an Internet device, the cheap netbooks are OK, but the $1200-$4000 > original netbooks were superb by comparison. Cheap and small hardly compares > to quality and small. You gets what you pays for! > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
