OT Question

[gokenin]

Not directly related to the topic about photography. I was wondering how many people here have both a Laptop and a Netbook? I am thinking about getting a netbook to use along with my laptop and to use it for travel. whats your take am close to pulling the trigger on ordering it but just waffling I guess.

 

[foolishmortal]

Not directly related to the topic about photography. I was wondering how many people here have both a Laptop and a Netbook? I am thinking about getting a netbook to use along with my laptop and to use it for travel. whats your take am close to pulling the trigger on ordering it but just waffling I guess.

my wife has a laptop we both use and I too am considering a net book for easy on the go situations. so I undersdtand your dilemma

 

[mabas9395]

95% of what my kids use a computer for is just to hop aboard the information super world wide interweb (or whatever kids are calling it now days). So I'm tempted to get one just for that and let the kids' current computer be the "homework" one.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I just have an old laptop. I'd probably be better off with a lightweight netbook. I just use the laptop for surfing the net and for dumping pictures onto it on trips. I use Lightroom on it, but I do very little with it.

I thought long and hard about getting a new laptop. The problem was that I couldn't get one that had everything I wanted - lots of power but lightweight and with long battery life; really big screen, but really small netbook. I finally concluded that my old laptop was fine and I'd just keep using it.

The iPad looks pretty cool as a piece of hardware. I'd be interested in one if Apple sold a non-crippled version.

 

[YesDear]

I have a new laptop DUH! and I do have a netbook. I got it last year for my trip to China. It is an MSI wind. It runs on windows and has a 160gb hard drive. It has a 9 or 10 inch screen. I did get a portable dvd drive. It is very light and worked exactly the way I wanted it. A storage place for pictures and a way to get email. I would get one again.

Now I will probably take my normal laptop on other trips but when size matters, I am taking the netbook!

 

[MarkBarbieri]

What about that Mac Air thing? It looks pretty darn cool.

 

[gokenin]

What about that Mac Air thing? It looks pretty darn cool.

call me cheap but I have looked at the mac air but just cant see spending that kind of money for a second device, plus am looking for something small that can fit in a carryon easily and something i can download pics onto and check emails. Just dont feel like luggin the 15.4 inch laptop around with me on vacation but a 10 inch netbook i may do

 

[mom2rtk]

My husband got a netbook for Christmas and just loves it. It's easy to hang out on the sofa or wherever with it. It just seems SO much more portable than a laptop. We're bringing it instead of the laptop on vacation this summer. We're road tripping from KCMO down through southern Utah and the Grand Canyon and on to D-Land and back. I just keep thinking how cool it would be to have a wireless card.......

 

[WVDisGeek]

Interesting debate. We currently just have our desktop and my wife has a laptop for work. We have been debating whether to get a laptop for us or a netbook. Would most likely just be a place to dump photos and surf. I would like to get a laptop for the built in DVD drive and more power, but my brother had his netbook with him when we visited at Christmas and it did seem really handy for surfing and minor stuff. Decisions, decisions....

 

[Suburbanmom]

When I went to the Dominican Republic in January, I carried my 15-inch laptop. My friend took her netbook. She is not a photographer, and I found myself envious of her portability. She literally threw that thing in her purse. I had a HUGE bag (filled with camera equipment too). If I wasn't going to need Lightroom, I would go with the netbook. If I had to do editing, I would stick with a laptop. I never could have edited quickly on such a small screen....the 15-inch laptop was hard enough.

 

[boBQuincy]

Netbooks are great for travel, we carry a 9" or 10" Asus on all our trips. Asus was recently named as making the most reliable laptops, easily beating HP, Lenovo, Dell, and even Apple.

 

[SamSam]

We purchased a netbook for a trip to Peru last year. Loved it! It is so lightweight and easy to stick in a backpack or daybag. To check e-mail and download photos it can't be beat.

 

[photo_chick]

I was going to get a netbook and had even settled on the one I wanted. But when I went to buy it I found a good deal on a laptop I can actually game on and I went that way and now I can't imagine having gone with a netbook. I've since realized I never would have been happy using a netbook to download images on, which was one of the main things I wanted.

I really think it comes down to what you intend to use it for and what your expectations are.