[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by geodeticman.5

I am close to buying a replacement computer, and wonder if any of you have a recc. about the new mini 'netbooks' . The $200 and up dealy bobbers. Dell's start climbing up to $600 real quick, w/o a disc drive it appears, and wondered if you have any thoughts.

My goal is to get a ultra minimalist light portable cheap job to surf , almost JUST that, but no cd/dvd player ? hmmm. Then, I want to buy a desktop regular PC in the lower mid range, like CPU and flat monitor no screamer, just enough inards to let me pull up full screen youtubes and CBS old shows etc., and mix my own CD's etc, and have sufficent ram, clock speed, throughput, l2 cache, and any fsBUS mem I am forgetting about that greatly effect performance.

Hi Steve
I thought of you yesterday when outside one of our local supermarkets I spied a red security van

I thiugh of you again just now when I read an email from one of my favoUrite suppliers
Tiger Direct of Florida with 72 hour offer on a netbook for only $219


details at
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&sku=A50-10028

I had recently determined to buy a new small PC and the small size and lowish prices of netbooks was I felt very appealing.However I plumped for a very good buy on a used Acer Ferrari

but that of course is a full sized 15 inch screen notebook, (I had been looking at the Acer One 10inch netbook)
I discovered that Acer have not had a Ferrari styled model on sale for some time then out of the blue they announced recently new Acer Ferrari One with larger (11.6 inch) screen wiil be on sale on October 22 with the new Windows 7 ( which is on sale the very same day for US$499)

and then quickly followed up with the
Acer Ferrari Racing Pocket PC


complete with GPS (Geosteve Poser System?!?)
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15691/41/
there is a bewildering choice now ranging from ipods with video, iphones
blackberries,smartphones netbooks etc
the smaller the gadget the more occasions you could take it with you
food for thought!!v