Should I buy it?

[Anachron]

Hey guys, I am thinking about buying a notebook/netbook for around 300-600€.
I found this one, however, 2 bad cons are the display (which mirrors) and the existing keyboard (which is said to be bad).

I am looking for a good (powerful) note/netbook which I can use in train to work and sometimes play games, I often use web developing stuff which need a lot of memory and can be very power draining, such as starting an XAMPP server with MySQL, APACHE and other services and loading intensive projects (with 100k lines of code and more) and it should still be workable with.

Do you have any idea what I should get? Do you think the Aspire will make it? This will be my first notebook so I would be happy to get some help.

 

[Samuraid]

As far as reliability goes, I wouldn't recommend Acer.

Other brands such as Asus have a much better reputation for reliability.

 

[Anachron]

Well, I am considering this one by dell. What do you think about it?

 

[syltman]

As far as reliability goes, I wouldn't recommend Acer.

Other brands such as Asus have a much better reputation for reliability.

Acer ain't so bad, HP is way worse

 

[Etzer]

Don't buy DELL either. If the shit breaks down you are screwed.

MSI have some awesome computers.

 

[Anachron]

MSI? I am gonna check it.

I was thinking about buying the new ASUS EEE Pad.

 

[thelifelessone]

Some of what Toshiba has is pretty good, at the moment.
I know five people who have one, and they all like them.

I was going to buy one myself as well, until I decided to build a desktop instead.

 

[YourNameHere]

MSI sucks. Only had problems with it. Won't ever buy anything from MSI again.
Had a graphics card and a motherboard, the motherboard in an older PC. There aren't any actual drivers for the card, only winxp and vista 32bit. The motherboard pretty much rejected all the stuff and just threw out weird errors, and somewhen the BIOS just stopped saving data although it was only 3 years old. Meh.

 

[Anachron]

What about the ASUS EEE Pad?

 

[Krl70]

I found one of the Ausus EEE pads in a club that broke down and left across street, i won't count on it, it is touch, however touch is overrated, excellent if you make a lot of icons and skins. BUT after 10 minutes playing around with the screen it simply broke down, just black, i looked trough it, and main card (i guess in englis) had broke down, BAM like that, it controls lights, keyboard (wich the EEE can only have with a docking station), everything. of course that was just that one, you can see the evaluation for your self http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/31/asus-eee-pad-ep101tc-and-ep121-hands-on/