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whats the best netbook for under $300? I will never watch HD or play video games on it, solely for homework on the go...
 
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Yep. Everyone and their mother makes Netbooks now. MSi, Acer, Asus, AsRock (I Think?), Lenovo, Toshiba, HP, Dell... but Asus started it all! I think they've always had the best. It's always cost a bit more than most of the others but they seem to have the best combination of build quality and battery life.

The new ones have Windows 7 starter on them. Not sure how that runs. Anyone use that yet?
 
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i would go for the msi wind U100 just because you can overclock that thing(200mhz makes a differents if it is a atom)
 
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The wife and daughter has the acer aspire one and they love them. For home work etc they would work fine. Gaming no. Pretty cheap got from walmart.
 
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I've been looking for one also, specifically one with a 6 or more cell battery. If I'm going to give up a lot of power and screen size by getting a netbook, I want it to have a huge battery life.
 
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the dell one you can put the OSX on it easily... just saying
 
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leaning at the MSI Wind.
 
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you mean msi wind :)
 
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viczulis said:
The wife and daughter has the acer aspire one and they love them. For home work etc they would work fine. Gaming no. Pretty cheap got from walmart.
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That's not entirely true. Even though gaming isn't exactly the most adrenaline thing on such small screen, but the fact that it can run games like UT2004 at prety decent settings tells it all. Or Max Payne 2 with max settings. Or RTCW. Or C&C Generals. Not super ultra fast, but it worked and i could play it pretty well. I'm just playing C&C Tiberian sun on it. And used to play Red Alert 2 as well. And there were also NFS series up to NFS:porsche. With max details.
So there is quite some room for gaming even on netbooks.
 
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RejZoR said:
That's not entirely true. Even though gaming isn't exactly the most adrenaline thing on such small screen, but the fact that it can run games like UT2004 at prety decent settings tells it all. Or Max Payne 2 with max settings. Or RTCW. Or C&C Generals. Not super ultra fast, but it worked and i could play it pretty well. I'm just playing C&C Tiberian sun on it. And used to play Red Alert 2 as well. And there were also NFS series up to NFS:porsche. With max details.
So there is quite some room for gaming even on netbooks.
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Yeah I'd believe it, my buddy played UT2004 with integrated graphics forever.

I also played cnc generals on integrated graphics back when it first came out. Then when I got a dedicated graphics card, I was surprised to find out the gamespeed could be a whole lot higher. :D
 
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Conti027 said:
the dell one you can put the OSX on it easily... just saying
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RejZoR said:
That's not entirely true. Even though gaming isn't exactly the most adrenaline thing on such small screen, but the fact that it can run games like UT2004 at prety decent settings tells it all. Or Max Payne 2 with max settings. Or RTCW. Or C&C Generals. Not super ultra fast, but it worked and i could play it pretty well. I'm just playing C&C Tiberian sun on it. And used to play Red Alert 2 as well. And there were also NFS series up to NFS:porsche. With max details.
So there is quite some room for gaming even on netbooks.
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and what netbook did you do that on?
 
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