Can't decide between 2 netbooks

C

ctjacket

n00b
Joined
Jun 28, 2008
Messages
12
I am about to buy myself a netbook but I am stuck. I need it to be as cheap as possible, but I also want the best battery life I can get.

I cannot decide between the aspire one 6 cell or the asus 900ha.

I would get the aspire one, but the fan noise problem is holding me back from purchasing it. The 900ha on the other hand, is a lot cheaper but only has a 4 cell battery.


I have tried both keyboards out and they are fine to me.

Which should I buy?
 
The extra battery life and general better general construction on the aspire one is worth it. However, you probably should get the HD version, the SSD is really really slow
 
The Acer Aspire One, hands down, of the two choices. As for SSD issues, there are ways to work around the slow write performance of some of the current SSD technology until they get much faster. There's one workaround using TrueCrypt to turn all random writes into sequential ones that almost guarantees the max write performance of any SSD - most notably MLC-based SSD hardware. And then there's the Windows SteadyState method as well, does basically the same thing.

The issue with slow performance for SSDs is geared primarily towards the write performance, but as I just stated, there are ways to alleviate the "native" performance of such drives in a relatively simple and painfree way.
 
I'll put in a vote for the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 (my experience with all things Lenovo says that it's almost certain to be better constructed).

Or, if you're willing to spend ~$150-200 more after Ebay cash back for what is unquestionably a far far superior machine (constuction, processor power, screen quality, everything), a HP Compaq 2510p. I picked mine up for $525 shipped after cashback ($700 shipped up front) about a month ago after trying out several netbooks.

It's got a 1.2Ghz ULV C2D, 2GB of RAM (upgradeable to 4GB), 80GB 1.8" 4200RPM HDD (weakest part, but common with netbooks), 12" 1280x800 LED backlit LCD, 802.11a/b/g/draft-n wifi, bluetooth 2.0, 1 firewire port, 2 USB 2.0 ports, VGA out, a DVD/CD-ROM combo drive, SDHC card reader, PCMCIA slot, and fingerprint reader. Also has a trackpoint ("eraserhead" pointer) in addition to the touchpad. Mine came with the 6 cell battery, which is good for somewhere between 5 and a half and 6 and a half hours of real usage running Vista Ultimate 64bit in power saving mode (CPU clocked down unless necessary). It came with XP Pro installed and I've got media, so I may reinstall at some point and see if performance differs considerably, but for the moment I'm happy enough with it.
 
No I can't do cashback as I am leaving the country for about 6 months.

Thanks for the input.

I just bought a 6 cell off newegg.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top