Hey Computer Nerds I Need Advice!

[Amber Lamps]

Okay it seems that Rae is always right and there's no way I'm dragging my 17" Dell to the rally! I packed it in the backpack and rode with it today and it fucking sucked! So I am looking into getting an inexpensive netbook. Any ideas or recommendations ? For the record, I'm only going to use it for basic crap like downloading our video and pictures at the rally, I already have enough computers at home. Thanks for your help. Oh btw I've seen a linux based dell on clearance for under $200 with a 32G hard drive and 1G of memory...that sound okay?

[derf]

Ive been looking at those dell netbooks myself. they look great for travel

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by derf

Ive been looking at those dell netbooks myself. they look great for travel

Yea it's funny how this keeps happening... first I go out and buy the biggest, greatest whatever and then I buy something A LOT smaller and easier to use... How about Linux though? Will I have problems moving things to my main computer when I get home?

[derf]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Yea it's funny how this keeps happening... first I go out and buy the biggest, greatest whatever and then I buy something A LOT smaller and easier to use... How about Linux though? Will I have problems moving things to my main computer when I get home?

I was looking at the XP ones. Every few weeks they drop the price on the XP ones to like $225. I'm in the same boat, I have a 17" dell notebook too, but the thing is friggin huge. I would be much happier with a handful of thumb drives and a 10" netbook.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by derf

I was looking at the XP ones. Every few weeks they drop the price on the XP ones to like $225. I'm in the same boat, I have a 17" dell notebook too, but the thing is friggin huge. I would be much happier with a handful of thumb drives and a 10" netbook.

Well,if you didn't notice Radio Shack/ Att have a special going on with an Acer Netbook that has a 160G hard drive and a 1G ram. It's pretty sweet but you have to sign up with Att for 2 year to get it for $80. Att wireless internet is $60 and I pay $30/month now. It would be worth it IF Att's internet is as fast and reliable as my cable is now but I have my doubts.

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=3420869

[Smittie61984]

If someone has a laptop with some sort of wireless card from Verizon/AT&T/etc you could load it up on their puter and email it to yourself or putfile.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

If someone has a laptop with some sort of wireless card from Verizon/AT&T/etc you could load it up on their puter and email it to yourself or putfile.

Yea, I think Ebbs is bringing his, I can always just download them to a cd as well.

[zed]

I've been wanting to get one of the mini's. like 9" screen, SSD for taking on trips. much easier than taking the bigger laptop.

[Amber Lamps]

This is the one I want. They don't mention it here but this unit also has "face recognition" so only you can unlock it.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...#ProductDetail

[Amber Lamps]

How about this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...3AIT&viewitem=