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Thread ID: 105436	2009-12-02 03:34:00	My Toshiba's died and gone to heaven..	laworder (12738)	Press F1

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835687	2009-12-02 03:34:00	...or wherever laptops go when they shuffle off this mortal coil :crying Am looking at getting something somewhere between a netbook and a standard laptop to replace it, screen size somewhere around 10-12 in and with a reasonable size hard drive in it but not too heavy, not too dear either Any brands to avoid or recommend? or models that people have seen or own that they would like to recommend or avoid Regards Peter	laworder (12738)
835688	2009-12-02 04:24:00	on the netbook end of the scale I love my EEEpc 1000h, 10" screen 160gb hdd, 7 hours on the battery if you are nice to it 3-5 if you aren't.	lagbort (5041)
835689	2009-12-02 04:27:00	Recommended: ASUS and Toshiba. Avoid: Acer, HP, and pretty much anyone else. As lagbort stated, a 10" netbook would be good enough.	pcuser42 (130)
835690	2009-12-02 05:12:00	Depends what you plan to use it for. If you just surfing the net, emails and a few documents, cheapies will do fine eh?	Chris09 (15218)
835691	2009-12-04 01:59:00	Have found a laptop and bought it as it was just what I was looking for, and only $660 It's a Gateway of all things, found it at the place round the corner where I took my old Toshiba for inspection. 11.8 in screen, Atom 1.3 G CPU, 2GB of RAM, thin and light but with a decent keyboard. I also looked at another machine (Acer I think, based in one of the EEEPC range) at the same place which had one of the new solid state drives for the OS, very pretty too with a burgundy brushed alumium top as opposed to the plain black of the Gateway, but the Gateway had a far better screen which is important to me. Only down side is that the Gateway comes with Vista Home Basic, when I would have far preferred XP. All the same, I was able to apply knowlege I had from fine tuning a friends emachine laptop which also had Vista on it, and got that to run far faster than it did out of the box by turning off all the unnecessary services using the Black Viper guide. Did the same with this little beastie last night and it is now nearly as quick as XP on my desktop, and using less than 500Mb RAM including an Antivirus, malware detection and firewall. It had Nortons on it when I got it, which was the first thing to get the flick... Thank you everyone for your input anyway..	laworder (12738)
835692	2009-12-04 03:13:00	...or wherever laptops go when they shuffle off this mortal coil :crying Am looking at getting something somewhere between a netbook and a standard laptop to replace it, screen size somewhere around 10-12 in and with a reasonable size hard drive in it but not too heavy, not too dear either Any brands to avoid or recommend? or models that people have seen or own that they would like to recommend or avoid Regards Peter Really netbooks are only good if you are traveling a lot, and you use it for email and internet. Otherwise they are pretty useless as a regular computer. Toshiba is the brand to go for, and I would get a minimum of 12 inch screen.	robbyp (2751)
835693	2009-12-19 21:42:00	MSI wind i hear have HDDs not SD cards	TechPro.conz (15485)
835694	2009-12-20 00:43:00	Really netbooks are only good if you are traveling a lot, and you use it for email and internet. Otherwise they are pretty useless as a regular computer. Toshiba is the brand to go for, and I would get a minimum of 12 inch screen. I disagree. Normal computing IMO is web browsing, email and word processing. Most netbooks are easily capable of all three.	Blam (54)
835695	2009-12-20 00:54:00	I disagree. Normal computing IMO is web browsing, email and word processing. Most netbooks are easily capable of all three. I even use my netbook for games (old ones though, designed for the likes of Windows 98).	pcuser42 (130)
835696	2009-12-27 21:07:00	Gateway computers? They are still available for purchase in New Zealand?	Renmoo (66)
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