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Ninelives

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Hey all. I was planning on buying a laptop that I could take with me to work. Nothing fancy, just something I could run my general applications, read e-books, listen to some music, etc. Basically something that I could save most of my personal things and allow me to access it anywhere.

I was looking into getting an ASUS Eee PC 4g with the hopes of upgrading the ram to possibly 1-2 gigs along with getting the HDD to around 40-75 gigs. Now I know you can upgrade the ram in it but I was curious if you could do the same with the HDD. I would be running Ubuntu on it due to me not gaming on it and I enjoy using Linux over Windows.

Other than that, I was wondering if this seems like a good investment or if you had a laptop that you could suggest that would fit my needs without having to do as much work / pay as much.

As always, thanks a lot!

(I apologize if I don't reply in case you ask something, I have been up for over a full day doing things and am ready to pass out. I will be sure to get back to anyone as soon as I wake up if needed.)
 
AFAIK, you can't upgrade the hard drive, which is actually a solid state drive by the way. With that said, you can add about more 16GB of storage if you use a 16GB SDHC and just leave it in the SD slot the EEEPC has. If you're willing to do a little soldering, you can add another up to 32GB more storage (largest flash drives I've seen) by doing this hack:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=3982
http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades#Flash_drive

But that maybe a bit out of your technical skills.

If portability is your main need, then get the EEE PC. However, usually every weekend or so, you can find some very good laptops at Best Buy with at least a Core Duo CPU with 2GB of RAM with at least 120GB of storage for around $450. Monitor sizes varies from 14.1" to 15.4". Those $450 laptops will be significantly faster and and offer more storage than the EEE PC.

So it's up to you. Portability or more storage and speed?

Personally if I had the money to spend and soldering skills, I'd totally get the EEE PC. I've used them in person. They are pretty nice laptops and I had little trouble adapting to the keyboard. For web browsing, word processing, e-book reading and music listening, the EEE PC is fast enough. For everything else, you may want a faster laptop.
 
Like any other they aren't perfect, but IMHO you just can't beat a ThinkPad.
 
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