What Netbook do you take down route

[RAPA Pilot]

I've asked this question in this forum because I'm a biz jet pilot and I think it is specific to our kind of work i.e always in all sorts of hotels around europe, loading our own baggage, long hours in FBO's etc. So connectivity, robustness, weight and battery life are definate issues connected to our type of job.

OK.

I am in the market for a netbook to take away on my trips.
Buget around £300 to use for internet access mostly plus webcam and although I'm not into games I have been known to play the odd shootem up and need to fill those hours somehow but it's not a major prerequisite?

What do you use, why and how much?
And any other info I haven't thought of.

Thanks folks.

RAPA...

[redsnail]

I personally use a Macbook but that's outside your brief.

I have seen a few guys use the Asus EEE (http://eeepc.asus.com/global/products.html?n=0) netbook.

[4y8_more]

I also have eee Pc.
I would say it's a very good netbook, the only drawback for me is it's battery life (2 hours is the very maximum).

[RAPA Pilot]

Interesting 4y8. The Eee PC 901 says up to 8 hours of battery life (so probably 5 realisticly) Which version do you have?

[what next]

Hello!

Most of the time, I carry my 15" Titanium PowerBook with me. Simply the best notebook ever made. It must be five or six years old now, but still going strong. With built-in Wifi and ethernet, you can connect to the world from most hotels and crew lounges. It is quite small and lightweight, but has an adult-sized keyboard and screen, both of which I would surely miss on an EeePC. And the battery lasts around four hours!

They have been out of production for some time now, but still can be found second hand for the figure you quote.

Greetings, Max

[mad_jock]

I have the Acer Aspire version but with linux on it.

Stuck some more memory in it for 20 quid and its a cracking little machine.

Bit of surfing got me into the operating system and then the fedora world is yours to use.

Personally I find it very useful. It has as many ports as you can shake a stick at for memory cards etc so if you take photo's its dead easy to transfer them.

If you want to edit them you can just yum GIMP which is free but yet top of the range.

The disk is just plane stupid size at 120GB. I have all the Harry potter audio books on mine plus a couple of movies and its still got 100GB left.

I use VLC to view and play audio.

As for games DOOM is there but rarely played lots of Java games though. And an emulator for all the old BBC micro games. Elite 25 years on is still just as good.

SKYPE works a treat.

Only thing it doesn't do which I want it to do is yahoo widgets but as the PPrune Volvo offshore racers have decided that any upgrades are not allowed its not a problem now.

I got mine for 220 quid plus 20 for the extra 1 GB of memory. 10quid for a blue tooth dongle and 4 quid for a laser mouse.

All software upgrades are free as is any software you fancy from the fedora depositorys

If you want a larger battery they are in the 50 quid region.

[fullyspooled]

What's a Netbook? :confused:

[mad_jock]

Something which is set up and kitted out for mainly mucking about on the internet.

They generally don't have any CD/DVD drives are quite compact (a bit bigger than A5) and very light.

Some have customised operating systems like the Aspire which arn't micro****e but are quite simple to navigate to the web, email and other simple office applications.

The aspire fits in a jacket pocket and within 30 secs of turning it on it searches out the area and gets you a wireless network to use if there is one about. Or you link it to your phone and get the connection that way.

To the none technical its just a simple internet thingy. If you know a wee bit about whats under the front end its a very powerful little computer.

[Air Soul]

EEEPC901 with Ubuntu. About 4 hours battery life, but you can stretch it a bit if you dim the screen and turn off anything you're not using.

[CMN]

Just bought a new model of the HP Mini (1030NR) in the States.
It's better I think than the other Netbooks, 'cause the keybord is almost like a normal laptop, which is nice when you don't have lady fingers ;)

Solid state harddrive is nice and a 10" screen. 1.1 kg like the others....

399 USD ! I'm told it's not out in Europe yet.

/C

[G-SPOTs Lost]

Did somebody say elite from the BBC 25yrs on ??????? WHERE WHERE WHERE?

Can it run on Vista?

[mad_jock]

BeebEm - BBC Micro and Master 128 Emulator (http://www.mikebuk.dsl.pipex.com/beebem/)

Have fun, I found it an utter :mad: getting it to speak to a joystick.

And here is the image of the game in both master and bbc b version.

Only the Best BBC Micro Games / BBC Games from the past - AcornSoft Games (http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/acornsoft.html)

And its just taken me 4 mins to download it onto vista and start playing including getting the joystick to work.

H'mm some probs with the keyboard mapping have fun though