<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 27, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Tony Scharf wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>One of the things I like about the netbook is what it represents: The<br>age of 'good enough' computing is here. Most any processor is capable<br>of handing 99% of what we need a computer for. Its only for very<br>specialized tasks (like music or art production) that someone would<br>need anything better.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>I went for the Acer aspire 1410. I got tired of looking around and this has what I want for a good price. 6 cell(battery) netbooks were putting me in the low to mid $300's + I would want to upgrade the ram so another $40. The blue aspire is $409 and comes with a dual core 1.2ghz, 2gig ram (up to 4gig) 11.6 screen(<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; ">1366 x 768), GMA 4500M graphics, 7 home premium 64bit, full keyboard, hdmi out and is just an inch bigger in one direction and .30lbs heavier than the aspire one.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">I think this puts it in a better position for me between my Droid and my 17" macbook.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">There are a couple kinks with Ubuntu with this machine though, one is a boot issue. I have read I either have to switch the SATA mode from AHCI to IDE or set boot option in Grub.</span></font></div></body></html>