Hey Computer Nerds I Need Advice!
 

Okay it seems that Rae is always right and there's no way I'm dragging my 17" Dell to the rally! I packed it in the backpack and rode with it today and it fucking sucked! So I am looking into getting an inexpensive netbook. Any ideas or recommendations ? For the record, I'm only going to use it for basic crap like downloading our video and pictures at the rally, I already have enough computers at home. Thanks for your help. Oh btw I've seen a linux based dell on clearance for under $200 with a 32G hard drive and 1G of memory...that sound okay?

Ive been looking at those dell netbooks myself. they look great for travel

I've been wanting to get one of the mini's. like 9" screen, SSD for taking on trips. much easier than taking the bigger laptop.

Yea it's funny how this keeps happening... first I go out and buy the biggest, greatest whatever and then I buy something A LOT smaller and easier to use... How about Linux though? Will I have problems moving things to my main computer when I get home?

If someone has a laptop with some sort of wireless card from Verizon/AT&T/etc you could load it up on their puter and email it to yourself or putfile.

I was looking at the XP ones. Every few weeks they drop the price on the XP ones to like $225. I'm in the same boat, I have a 17" dell notebook too, but the thing is friggin huge. I would be much happier with a handful of thumb drives and a 10" netbook.

Well,if you didn't notice Radio Shack/ Att have a special going on with an Acer Netbook that has a 160G hard drive and a 1G ram. It's pretty sweet but you have to sign up with Att for 2 year to get it for $80. Att wireless internet is $60 and I pay $30/month now. It would be worth it IF Att's internet is as fast and reliable as my cable is now but I have my doubts.

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=3420869

Yea, I think Ebbs is bringing his, I can always just download them to a cd as well.

This is the one I want. They don't mention it here but this unit also has "face recognition" so only you can unlock it.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...#ProductDetail

How about this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...3AIT&viewitem=