$100.00 7 Inch Mini Netbooks?

5/4/10 | Don@vb

[Don@VB]

I've seen a flood of mostly unbranded 7" mini notebooks via online retailers priced at $89.95 - $125. Has anybody got any feedback on these little guys??

[Don@VB]

I have an Acer 7" Netbook and have been quite happy with it; but these Netbooks are 1/3 the price from only a few months ago....

[autumnraine]

I’ve seen ads for them, but have yet to actually find a place to buy one for that price. It seems to be an internet bait and switch deal much like the “Obama wants moms to go to college!!!” which sends you to nowhere except spam sites.

[Dr. Sivana]

Give an example. Most of these have only a couple of gb of total storage off of flash memory. I would stay away from any that run from the Windows CE that is found on some of them.

Whether it is a good value depends on what you want to use it for.

[Don@VB]

I must plead guilty to chasing down these bottom dollar deals but heck I’ve seen the premium stuff fail to perform as well!

[Freddd]

ACER is an IBM clone, and a good one. My first desktop was an ACER. It and my Gateway, I would consider the best!

[Don@VB]

An Ebay search of “Netbooks” brings up a bunch of them and they all seem to have the same specs (including Windows CE)

[Zathras]

They seem to be of most value for getting email while traveling.

Not enough CPU power for playing video without some skips but might be ok for a 3hr flight.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

* Processor Type: VIA ARM 32bit CPU
* Processor Clock Speed: 300M Hz
* RAM Installed Size: 128M
* Operating System: WinCE

That’ll fail to perform alright!

The MSI Wind, EEEPC, or Acer Aspire One should run you under $300 now just about everywhere and if you find a deal, you might be able to get one for around $200. I doubt you’ll find much less than that yet though.

[Don@VB]

I’m just an email and light applications user so no problems there. They have a 2 GB flash harddrive.

[ncfool]

Obummer promised High Speed internet to everybody for free!

[kingu]

Highly recommend the ACER Aspire One with the N450 processor. You can find them at many of the major office chains right now, they run $300, and perform beautifully. Plus they come with Windows 7 Starter installed.

(ditch the Anti-virus and other assorted junk, get avira or similar.) If you find you need more oooph later, you can always upgrade the ram, and the 120 gb hard drive likely will outlive any need you'll have.

[ml/nj]

I have an Acer 7" Netbook and have been quite happy with it; but these Netbooks are 1/3 the price from only a few months ago....

I was happy with mine ... until you said what you did.

ML/NJ

[Jemian]

I use an Acer laptop. I am very happy with it. I had been using HPs but after having two go bad just after the warranty ran out, I am not touching an HP laptop again for quite some time.

[chris_bdba]

Do these have any usb ports?

[Zhang Fei]

These are basically PDA’s with bigger screens. Avoid like the plague.

[martin_fierro]

I have the ASUS 7" eeePC.

Nice and portable, runs Linux, but the keyboard is uncomfortably small and the 7" screen resolution is weird.

[Don@VB]

I'm pretty sure they have usb ports. They have lots of descriptive diagrams of them on Ebay (search “netbooks”) Check it there to be sure.

[chris_bdba]

Thanks. I might want to buy one just to send designs to my embroider machines but since they run by usb the port is important.

[chris_bdba]

OOPPPSS embroider=embroidery

[dfwgator]

I got one for my son, I had an extra monitor lying around so when he has it at the desk he just simply plugs it in there. Also got a USB keyboard cheap to use as well.