Acer has a couple mini models. One I tinkered with had 160GB HDD, 1 GB Ram, 1.6 GHz processor, 8.9" screen.
Dell has some to choose from. Their 8.9" ones come with Solid State Drives, up to 64 GB. They also have 12.1" and 13.3" lappies. Those have optical drive built in.
For the newer machines without optical media you can get external DVD burner for well under $100.
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Your mini laptops will not likely have a cd drom drive. You will need a portable drive to load your software.
Just be careful about purchasing one from Buycables or Cables4PC over the internet.
I ordered an external cd rom from this vendor in the name of Cables4PC.. com in November for my eeePC. They are also on eBay as "Cables4PC" and "Buycables."
The vendor tahes more than two weeks and sends me a Floppy Drive. When I contacted them by email, they claimed that they do not make such mistakes.
The package was sent to me "Return Postage Guaranteed." On that account, I sealed it back, took it to the Post Office and sent it back to them.
They claimed they did not received it, and failed to issue a refund. Since they have the record of their shipping, they claimed they never received the return.
Credit card company can't help, since they chose only to report that I received the package.
This vendor uses the system to scam buyers out of their money.
It appeared to be a good deal at less that $20 delivered. But, it was really $20 gone.
I would suggest looking at the models Acer has to offer. They are lean, dependable and priced right. They have deal aplenty online right now. Check 'em out.
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Netbook CPU's are typically those found in small devices like Palm PDA's and some phones. They're not tremendously fast. If you don't need a lot of horsepower for the apps you do, then a Netbook for the road is a good idea.
Not true about being the same processors in PDA and some phones. The processors in the netbooks are Intel Atom Processors. They are the newest processors for UMD, MID, netbooks, nettop applications thatare low powered using 1-2.5W and performance scaling range from 800MHz-1.86GHz and are also known as codename Silverthorne. The processors used in many of the cellphones and PDAs are usually ARM processors. If you want to know more about each one, I would suggest researching the processors that are in the device you are considering to purchase. Also make sure if you are going to get a netbook, get a 6-cell battery version instead of the 3-cell for longer play time.
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