I have a Dell Mini 9 and love it. It is an SSD-based one, 16GB is enough for what I do (email/browsing/PDFs) and I love that it has no moving parts. No HD, no fan, the only noise is some hum you can only hear if you hold it to your ear in a very quiet room. And it weighs around 1kg, I don't really notice it in my bag.
They don't sell the Linux versions down under, so I bought an XP one. At first I tried using that, thinking it wouldn't matter, but it took a week and it got a Ubuntu. After that I started loving it and it is my main private computer now. It's not really good for coding (although I have done some and it has both Eclipse and Netbeans on it). But for mail/browsing/etc. it's great (Flashblock is a must). The keyboard took getting used to, but I'm reasonably fast now. Peter Written on my netbook ;-) Robert Casto wrote: > I highly recommend getting an Asus EEE PC. I bought the newest one and > haven't had any trouble doing the work I want. Sometimes I have to > remember this is just a netbook and that it will be slow. > > I strongly recommend avoiding the cheaper alternatives. You get what > you pay for with hardware. A friend of mine bought one from Dell and > it has gone back 3 times for repairs already. He has hardly used it > and couldn't take it with him on a big trip. Nothing is more > frustrating than hardware that doesn't work as advertised. I guess we > have high expectations from hardware, more so than our software. :) > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Dick Wall <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > I use an Asus EEEPC 1000 HD, it certainly doesn't have the full power > of a big laptop, but it does allow me to mix and edit the podcast on > the train, and also fits in my bicycle pack. > > I would recommend getting a true old fashioned hard drive based > netbook if you want to use it for this purpose. Solid state is really > nice for a lot of things, but the extra capacity of the hard drive is > going to be useful if you are mixing a lot of resource heavy audio, > and I still worry about the sheer number of writes on solid state > drives. YMMV. > > That said, I don't think it really matters which netbook you get to do > the work on, I know Acer and HP do good alternatives. Still, think > about a hard drive based one if you are planning to do a lot of audio > editing. > > Cheers > > Dick > > On Sep 5, 8:02 am, harijay <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On some previous episode , Dick Wall mentioned that he once used an > > impulse purchase netbook from Target to mix the podcast. > > Just curious which netbook it was ? > > Thanks > > Hari > > > > > -- > Robert Casto > www.robertcasto.com <http://www.robertcasto.com> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
