My First Netbook
Well I finally got a netbook. It was an unexpected gift for x-mas. I got the Gateway EC1433u Cherry Red(the black ones were all sold out). I was originally going to get the Asus Netbook, but I really couldn't figure out which one I wanted. I picked out the gateway because it had the ability to do hd video, had an hdmi as well as an optical out. As of now I love this little thing, the screen has the larger 11.6" screen for netbooks although they are starting to come out with the 12" ones now(with the ion gpu). Also came with Windows 7 x64 home premium which is nice, although with the wmp always running the sharing service in the background is a bit taxing sometimes. The netbook is really quick and responsive, apps open at a decent speed with the 1.3ghz Intel Celeron has about on average 4.5-5 hours of battery life for me so far. Its prob a little slower than the atom processors due to the 300mhz and the lack of hyperthreading. This netbook is also missing bluetooth which I am hoping can be installed internally a little later as they have the enable disable switch on the front of the netbook. All in all I think the netbook does pretty well for the size and speed especially at the price($399). The older brother of this netbook which is S529 has a dual core 1.3ghz processor and 3gb of ram.
But as the price limit was $400 when I was originally looking at netbooks and when I was asked to look these up for my girlfriends co-worker I was looking for the best bang for the buck which was this one at the time. But with the netbook specs changing again its only a matter of time when this netbook gets left in the dust.
