Comments on: Ultra-portable Laptop Summer Love

By: Who Won The Double Notebook Giveaway??! : College Candy

Who Won The Double Notebook Giveaway??! : College Candy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:30:21 +0000

[...] have hundreds of these things to give away. But we don’t. And, seeing how cheap the HP DV2 is, it really shouldn’t take that long for all of you to save up (return those beer cans, [...]

By: Kanye Rolls Out BEST SNEAKERS EVER : College Candy

Kanye Rolls Out BEST SNEAKERS EVER : College Candy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:01:07 +0000

[...] I don’t know about you, but I’m not buyin’ it (literally). I’m pretty sure nothing going on your feet is worth that much money. Unless, of course, these things actually let me walk in Kanye’s shoes. Since they don’t, I’ll be spending my money much more wisely: on a new laptop. [...]

By: Chelzz

Chelzz — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:06:51 +0000

Well…. macbook is soft and shiny. :*(

By: Bridgette

Bridgette — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:45:55 +0000

I have an HP dv4, I love it just as much as I liked the dv2 when I was check the specs out. HP always makes quality computers.

By: bloggingwithaj

bloggingwithaj — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:14:17 +0000

Yeah, you guys missed the best one by not featuring the aspire one. I've got the 160g in pink and I get SO MANY QUESTIONS on it when I take it out! It's precious, and it's fast enough to run adobe premiere and photoshop, even a major MMORPG. I'm sold! I love this little thing!!!

By: keri

keri — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:41:42 +0000

I got the Acer Aspire One 8.9inch mini laptop back in March..I have a desktop but wanted a mini to take places with me. It's wonderful. I use it on campus all the time and constantly have people say "OMG is that your computer?!" cause it's so tiny yet works just as well, if not better, than other 'regular' sized laptops. (It comes in pink too!)

By: Bre

Bre — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:10:57 +0000

I've been looking around at netbooks since October and I'm happy that College Candy decided to do a great article about them! However, I was a little surprised to see that you didn't give any info about the Acer Aspire One line of netbooks.

About a week ago I finally bought an Acer Aspire One D250 and it's a great little PC! It has a 10.1 inch screen, 160GB of hard drive (I've moved all of my music and movies from my main laptop onto my netbook and I still have 100GB of free space), it boots up fast and shuts down even faster, it weighs between 2 and 2.8 lbs depending on if you have a 6-cell or a 3-cell battery, like most netbooks its operating system is Windows XP, and it's also only an inch thick when closed. I mean, it can't slice bread like the Macbook Air but that's still pretty thin compared to the other chunky netbooks that are out there. I think the best part about this particular Acer is the price. For the basic 3-cell battery model you can usually get it for about $299 and it's conveniently available at Walmart and OfficeMax.

Over all, I love this little guy. It's cute, comes in four colors (Black, white, red, and blue) that manage to make it look like a computer and not a toy (I have the blue and it still looks professional), it doesn't have the weird shift key problem like the Eee PC 1000 which I was also considering, and it does everything I need it to do.

Some advice for anyone wanting to buy a netbook: Really do some research! You should read lots of reviews by people who know computers as well as the average computer user. Trust me, you don't want to pay $599 for something that doesn't do what you need it to do, like play DVDs. I'm pretty sure there isn't a netbook on the market that has a disk drive, so if you like using DVDs, CDs, and games and don't want to purchase an external disk drive, a netbook probably isn't what you want as your primary computer. But if you do your research and find a netbook that you're happy with, it can be the perfect primary or secondary computer!