Netbook News You Care About (if you’re a complete netbook geek like me, anyway)

K. T. Bradford — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:09:36 +0000

So, two bits of news you might find interesting if you spend all of your time looking at tiny laptops and loving them. First, I updated our faceoff of 10-inch netbooks so I could add the newest Eee PC (1000HE) and the new MSI Wind and the Acer Aspire One, which now comes in a 10-inch version. Back in November the Samsung NC10 was the best. Now… well, go read. However, despite everything the Samsung is still my favorite netbook and I’ll be buying one in March.

Also, about that Acer Aspire One…

When we first tested the battery it lasted almost 8 hours. Like 3 minutes shy of 8 hours. And all across the land there was rejoicing. Then we found out that Acer didn’t plan to put that battery on all the Aspire Ones, just the first batch. Subsequent batches have a lower capacity battery (why? I don’t know. ) and thus less life. We actually got that “normal” battery in yesterday and the test results are in today: 4:24. Ugh.

Yeah, 4:24 isn’t horrendous, but it’s not 8 hours! It’s not even 5! Meanwhile, the Eee PC got over 7.

ASUS really stepped up their game with the 1000HE (even if it could use a better name). I’m pleasently surprised.

But I’m still buying a Samsung.

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Netbook News You Care About (if you’re a complete netbook geek like me, anyway)