netbook

Collective intelligence gathering for hardware recommendation (hint we need a hardware section on here). Looking for a cheap beater netbook - older / used models are fine.  Should have good battery life (using in off grid environment with outdoors / dirt / sub optimal computing environment)...

Hey guys! My girlfriend managed to step on her netbook - eMachines em350 to be exact, and managed to break the screen. What a surprise :P I bought her a new netbook, so here I am with half-functioning netbook. Now, as you probably know, the resolution on those things is hideous 1024x600. I was...

I have a HP mini netbook with Atom N2800 processor and 2GB RAM. It came pre-installed with Win7 starter (32-bit) and it works great. With my itching to use Linux, I installed Linux Mint 13 (XFCE) as dual boot and it works fine. But I cannot feel it as smooth as Win7 runs. Running Linux Mint...