[arch-general] Netbook recommendations

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM,  <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:22:15 -0500
> Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Roman Kyrylych
>> <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > * Read reviews, there are lots of them.
>> >  (even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks :))
>>
>> Awesome! Thanks for this
>
> I look around for some time and would probably go with an eeepc. It
> seems they switched to windows again tough.
> Netbook based on the ion platform seem to be available now (nvidia
> graphics) but there likely are still no dual core atom ones.
>
> I eventually decided to go for a thinkpad instead, 'just' have to find a
> model that suits since you can't customise them here...

I've begun looking in depth at the Eee 1005HA model. Does anyone have
experience with this one? I notice there are P, V, and B models (in
order of most expensive to least), with slightly varying specs.