[ILUG] Laptop for the missus - 2 years on and still deciding...

[Conor Wynne]

Declan, you first reply has convinced me, a mini 10v it is.

One question, I'm assuming the 1024*600 display will work with all
webpages without using the scrollbar?
This is the only thing I find annoying about the EeePC 701, oh and the
keyboard, and battery life.... and it being dog slow CPU wise :-)

8GB SSD (default and 60 quid cheaper)
extras : 6 Cell battery

Declan McGrath wrote:
> Though I broadly agree with Frank on this one. I use mine as a fully fledged Rails and Python development machine - as long as the keyboard is big enough (Mini 10's is big enough) and a bit of grunt under the hood the user experience should be great!
>
> Dec
>
> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:30:28 Frank Duignan wrote:
>   
>> As always it depends.....The mistake some people make with netbooks is that
>> they try to use them as full featured computers and are disappointed.
>> Limiting yourself to a 16BG SSD stops this feature creep and you use the
>> device as intended
>>     

Agreed, all she uses my machines for is one thing, facebook. Oh and
gmail but that's for facebook notifiers. :-)
I'll use it myself for surfing when I'm forced to watch Corporation
street, Eastbenders, wife swap, what "some non-celeb" did next, other
thrash.

-- I like doctors and emmerdale though. Doctors is really good, highly
recommend it -- on BBC HD.

Regards,
Conor.