07-23-2009, 04:38 PM
Quote:I will start law school in a month and I want to have something light which I can take to classes and libraries and on which I can run Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Offhand that's pretty much all I can think of wanting. If anyone can suggest other things I might not be thinking of please let me know. The one I am conciously omitting is gaming and I realize that I will have to sacrifice that for portability (and price).
I think the main question you have to ask yourself is if you want this netbook next to your normal desktop or notebook. I like them and think they would do fine for what you need them for. So is the ease of having something ultraportable worth 300 dollars then buy one. If not just use your own laptop.
If you don't have a laptop but a desktop at home, I would say 'go for that netbook'.
( I don't own one so I can't tell you just how good or bad they work)