Which Netbook Is for You?

I THINK FOR THE PRICE THE DELL IS THE BEST FOR ME..

Stay away from anything that has DELL written on it. If the thing breaks, gook luck trying to get it fixed. And trust me it will take a crap on you.

john,
i agree with you. i will never buy another Dell product directly from them EVER again. i got my husband a tv, and we immediately had problems. they were not easy to work with, and it never got repaired. i have, however, received good Dell products via QVC, and, with QVCs good customer service, i do not worry.

Best bet...wait for second generation just like auto's never buy the first year out of the gate!

buy a real laptop or a macbook if your gonna get the 900 price range.
i build and fix computers, and those netbooks are trash.
Every single one of them. You'll say oh but their so cheap and i only surf the web, yeah next thing you know you'll be wishing you had more and could do more.

I have the Dell mini 9. Totally awesome. I dont know why I had to have the webcam and bluetooth but I did.
Great speed. Love the good ole windows XP. Great battery life, anywhere from 3-4 hrs. But if I had to do it again, I would have gone for the mini10. Just a little bit bigger screen and at the same price its worth it.

I Can't Believe They Forgot All About The Lenovo S9 & S10 netbooks!!! It rocks and you can get it on sale at www.lenovo.com for about $350 it also comes in Pink Blue White Red. It kicks the competitions butt!

Given the models you compared, you pretty much hit the mark. It is a shame that you did not get a chance to compare the new ASUS Eee PC 1000HE. This one has the even newer Atom N280 processor (faster 667 FSB), 160gb HD, card reader, 3 USB ports, ethernet, WiFi 802.11n and Bluetooth. Standard 1gb RAM can be doubled by the user (takes about 5 minutes) for less than $25. ASUS couples all of this with a crisp display screen that comes with the best warranty against "dead pixels" in the industry.

They are selling like "hot cakes" and Amazon, Tiger PC, Fry's, OnSale.com have all had a waiting list at times. I ordered mine several weeks before the initial release date and have been in love with it from day one. Take a moment to check it out for yourself at http://promos.asus.com/US/Spotlight/Feb2009/1000HE_Story.html. You will not be disappointed.

About the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE, I forgot to mention that you get it all for less than $400. It sports a flush fitting battery that gives up to 9.5 hours of service and they even throw in 10gb of free online data storage that you can access anytime from anywhere.

Use the included video camera and microphone system (I use Skype) and it makes you wonder why so many people spend this much for some so called "smart phones."

I just purchased the Dell 9" netbook and i love it! I use it more than the others. It's a very well laid out and the battery last. I paid around $300.00 for it . I have three other Dell computers from 5 years old to 2 and have ZERO problems with them. I do agree their customer service sucks. I just love talking to people in India. (i had to call about a xbox order)

I will NEVER buy another Dell. The laptop I got
was a total loss and they did nothing to help me. They even screwed up the warrenty and took no responsibility for it.

The reputable repair people I went to, NOT Dell, said one out of three or four computers they receive to repair are Dells.
Don't get one.

I bought an Acer Aspire about 3 weeks ago and I do like it a lot. It's great for travel--smaller than my laptop by about 50% and light at 1.8 pounds--and it is better than my iPhone which has reliability issues--it tends to crash on me at inopportune moments. I dislike typing on the iPhone--but the netbook is no problem. It does have a different feel than my bigger laptop but I am getting used to it! It boots up very fast and it's quick at surfing. No DVD/CD drive but I don't use that anyway and it has 3 USB ports and the touchpad is very sensitive when adjusted correctly.

I am wondering which of these Netbooks is best for running iTunes. I run a small DJ business, and rather than carry CDs around and update those music sets all the time, I just want to go to a system of 2 laptops per DJ system. I would prefer smaller, more portable computers, which is why I'm looking at Netbooks. ANd I can't really go out and spend $1400 a piece on 4 MacBooks right now. I don't need to watch video or do a lot of business related work. I basically need iTunes and that's it (thought it would be nice if I could open Excel and Word docs... but this is not critical). Most Critically, I need to make sure iTunes runs efficiently though. Since we're playing the music at live events, we can't have the songs cutting in and out or freezing up, etc. Any ideas if any of these will meet my needs?

Once you go MAC you'll never go back. PC's suck arse. PC's running windows suck the biggest arse.

Yeah, i get it... but if you read my whole post, you'll see that I specifically said I don't want to spend $1400 per macbook on 4 computers just to basically run iTunes. If I can do it for $300 to $500 per Netbook and still get solid and consistent iTunes performance, then that's a much better option. I prefer Macs. I do own 2 of them. But these computers are for my business, to use iTunes primarily. I can't find any information on how well iTunes will run on these. Anybody tried it?