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Anybody have a netbook or know much about them? Going to get one for my daughter.
My mom's got one and she loves it. Acer - seems to be one of the best values for netbooks for what you get. I compared it to Toshiba and Dell - Toshiba is close but both seem to be better than Dell for what you get.
They're pretty powerful - it's a full computer, just mini. The battery life is incredible. Took it cross country and had several hours of battery life to spare. She has a regular SATA drive, but I know someone with a solid state drive and he says he's gotten ridiculous battery life - something like 12+ hours.
You might want to consider a solid state drive for your daughter given that it's fewer moving parts so if she drops it or bangs on it or whatever it's a lot harder to mess anything up. Also it's lighter. The drawback is that you'll probably only get a max of 32GB of space, but I'd think that would be plenty for your daughter (but who knows with kids these days
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NewEgg has the pink disney princess netbooks OMG.