It seems pretty nice, but I still love both of the Mini 9 netbooks I have at home. I would rather have a dual core x64 CPU that will still let me have no fans or moving parts. This is the big thing that drew me to the Dell Mini 9. After that, I like the use of fairly standard, generic parts within (simple SODIMM RAM, and not something soldered on the mainboard). The only "problem" I had was that it didn't use a normal HDD interface, but with 32GB and 64GB drives available during the build process, I probably wouldn't care now. I ended up with a 64GB Runcore, and now I have a great deal of extra space on the unit (40GB+ free space) so it can be addressed.
Why does everyone forget about MSI? They are the only brand I trust in this whole netbook thing. The Acers are really nice too. I don't understand how Dell gets one new product and everyone flocks into their arms begging for their products. Sure forget their horrible customer serivce (worst in the industry), and the fact they make huge employee cuts yearly, and the fact they have bad hardware. Then there's HP, which hasn't made a solid standing product for years. Everything I have bought from HP has had a major hardware issue in the past 2 years. 3 printers all had wireless failures and various other hardware issues. 2 laptops with wireless issues, one the wireless just stopped working and had to be replaced... twice and a disc drive that failed. If these companies can't make a full size laptop that is stable, how could you trust them to make it smaller? Besides all that, Dell's laptops always look chunky and ugly.
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The industry has gone NETBOOK crazy. im now torn between the HP and Dell got my GF a wind for xmas and she loves it. Id like something diff.
I love my wind. Can't wait for some dual core love and some nvidia Ion action. Really
hoped we would get some more info on that at ces.
It seems pretty nice, but I still love both of the Mini 9 netbooks I have at home. I would rather have a dual core x64 CPU that will still let me have no fans or moving parts. This is the big thing that drew me to the Dell Mini 9. After that, I like the use of fairly standard, generic parts within (simple SODIMM RAM, and not something soldered on the mainboard). The only "problem" I had was that it didn't use a normal HDD interface, but with 32GB and 64GB drives available during the build process, I probably wouldn't care now. I ended up with a 64GB Runcore, and now I have a great deal of extra space on the unit (40GB+ free space) so it can be addressed.
Why does everyone forget about MSI? They are the only brand I trust in this whole netbook thing. The Acers are really nice too. I don't understand how Dell gets one new product and everyone flocks into their arms begging for their products. Sure forget their horrible customer serivce (worst in the industry), and the fact they make huge employee cuts yearly, and the fact they have bad hardware. Then there's HP, which hasn't made a solid standing product for years. Everything I have bought from HP has had a major hardware issue in the past 2 years. 3 printers all had wireless failures and various other hardware issues. 2 laptops with wireless issues, one the wireless just stopped working and had to be replaced... twice and a disc drive that failed. If these companies can't make a full size laptop that is stable, how could you trust them to make it smaller? Besides all that, Dell's laptops always look chunky and ugly.