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What's The Perfect Balance For a Budget Laptop?

cheapbob writes "Recently HP officially unveiled a budget ultraportable laptop aimed to compete with the likes of Asus Eee PC. According to Compal, one of Dell's assemblers, Dell is also going to enter the budget ultra-portable market soon. All of these devices lack many of the features associated with larger-sized laptops, such as optical drives and large amounts of storage space, yet demand for them is very high. Initial reviews of these devices unsurprisingly expose them to be underpowered and lacklustre. What's the appeal? What do you think is the perfect balance of features and price point for a budget laptop?"

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  1. Re:4 hours commuting a day... by AuMatar · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, we just wonder why the hell you commute so much. I'd never take a job that required me to waste 4 hours of my life daily just going to and from it.

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    I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
  2. Re:depends on your salary by Corwn+of+Amber · · Score: 5, Funny

    ONE hour to tweak a Linux distro as tight as MacOSX? Your time is worth much, much more than $1300 an hour. Your time could make SuSE replace Apple. Yeah, 15% market share in a year, that's how much for the Messiah who figured out how to configure the distro Just Right?

    That everything works? I mean EVERYTHING. Temperature sensors and webcam and all... No, you lie. No one can do that. In under a year? No, you said under one hour. YEAH RIGHT.

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    Making laws based on opinions that stem up from false informations leads to witch hunts.
  3. Re:4 hours commuting a day... by Reality+Master+201 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Natürlich ist es besser in Deutschland zu leben. Leider bin ich Amerikaner.

  4. Re:OLPC by kirbysuperstar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, I digress for a bad joke. Ah, don't worry, it was ARMless.
  5. Re:4 hours commuting a day... by IAN · · Score: 5, Funny

    So who's IAN

    That would be me...

    and why does he 'heart' AL?

    Beats me.