Hmm, thanks for the input guys. Anyway, ya, I think I'll go with the Asus 1005HA EeePC. Asus are the ones who came up with the idea of "netbooks" to begin with, so I'm going to assume they know best when it comes to design .

I actually already own an original eeePC, but it's too slow and too small of a screen to be useful (probably gonna ebay it after I get a newer one).

Originally Posted by sew12

Acers suck. Don't buy one.

The Acer Aspire One netbook is seriously a cheap piece of crap.

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Lmao, so much hatin'.
I have the acer aspire one thing, and I've had no problems with it at all...

here's the thing: you can get an Accer with about 2 years replacement warranty at a cheaper price than most other netbooks on the market. I know two ppl that have Accer netbooks...they are performing flawlessly so far. I'm not promoting Accers cause they do tend to break down, but if ur just looking for a cheap short-term option, then accer is probably the best choice

If ur not too worried about the price, then look into Lenovo netbooks, I heard those even have built-in graphics cards

Don't netbooks generally tend to breakdown due to heavy usage? I hear that netbooks should primarily be for on the go purposes and much less for things that require a lot of RAM. However there are netbooks that are simply not as strong as others.

I'd go with the Acer if you're looking for a netbook now. It might brake in 2 years, but the fact is that the netbook scene will be so different by then that it might not be a bad thing to replace it by then anyway. Chrome OS is going to really shake up the netbook market, and will finally be released with netbooks designed for it this year.

I'm really excited for it, because its pushing netbooks back to the path they were on when they were mostly linux based. Resource light, ultraportable laptops that were almost completely web dependent, rather than just smaller versions of a regular laptop running Windows. I'll actually have motivation to buy one then.