Friday, September 3, 2010

I bought my last netbook?

I bought my last netbook! That's a bold statement for a netbook fanboy. As I've blogged a number of times, I love netbooks. For quite some time I have been looking for a laptop that is compact yet easy to be productive on while out and about. I normally use my 14" HP laptop for my work away from home. But I find it a bit big to use when running around town. My HP mini 311 netbook does most of the things I need to do, but I found it a bit too small when doing anything that required a bunch of typing.
Today while picking up other things at the local computer store I discovered the Acer Aspire 4880.
Being a 13" thin and light notebook computer I was impressed with it's size and appearance. My only concern was the processor. It uses the Intel SU2700 1.3 Ghz cpu. While this is a dual core cpu, I really thought the speed might leave something to desire. I played with the computer for about 30 minutes and was quite impressed. Especially considering it is a refurbished notebook running Windows Vista. The processor with the installed 4gb DDR3 ram was more than up to the task of  handling Windows Vista 64 bit. That was enough to convince me it would work out fine for me running Windows 7. So I brought it home.
With windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit installed, it performs better than any of my netbooks. A decent 10" refurbished netbook can be found for $200-250. Considering I would up the ram to 2 gb the price quickly approaches $300. Finding this notebook with 4 GB ram, 320 gb hard drive and an 8 hour battery was a great bargain at $329.






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