Looking for an inexpensive netbook... - Democratic Underground

TheMightyFavog

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Sun Jan-24-10 12:05 PM
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Looking for an inexpensive netbook...

Edited on Sun Jan-24-10 12:09 PM by TheMightyFavog

Just for surfing the web and reading my gaming pdfs. I'm looking to spend no more than $400, and the lower I can get, the better, however, I don't really want to sacrifice too much quality.

MS Office would be nice, but it's not critical to have. I know about OpenOffice, but the one spreadsheet (A character generator for an RPG) I do use has macros that won't work in OpenOffice.

Any advice?

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Red State Rebel

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Sun Jan-24-10 12:19 PM
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1. This is the one I got....

http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx/view.2/app.detail/params.item.E165153.desc.HP-101-Pink-Netbook-Win-7-Starter-1GB-RAM-160GB-w-Sleeve

It's $472 but was just under 4 when I got it. With QVC you can do easy pay for it 5 payments, no fees or anything, they just ding your bank card every month for the amount. Mine was a 3 month easy pay and will be done this month.

I really like this one, the keyboard is a good size but it is so lightweight it's easy to take anwyere. Good luck!

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CatholicEdHead

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Sun Jan-24-10 12:20 PM
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2. Acer Aspire One D250

I have had good luck with this model running XP. You can also download Office 2010 Beta and run that until October and have the full version of Office for the short term. Also look for sales on Office 2007 Home/Student, it can be as cheap as $90 at times.

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