I'm thinking I might buy or ask for a netbook for christmas, what's a good type to get? Using the following specs:
-Long battery life (well... most do)
-Nice screen, the larger the screen/better the resolution the better imo
-Decent sized keyboard
-60+ gb hard drive
-1 gig or more of ram

Edit: Oh and cheeeeaaapppp

...I think that's it

Well, I really really needed the SSD, so I have an eeePC 901 with a 1.6GHz Atom N270, 1GB RAM, 20GB storage across a 4GB and a 16GB SSD, and a 1024x600-pixel screen. I am running Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 on it, and I couldn't be happier with it. I like the eeePCs a lot, and I guess at this point you'll have to get one with an HDD, since I don't think they have any SSD models anymore. Mine was $270, just for reference. Do you have your eye on any models? What does everyone else thinkl?

http://www.amazon.com/Asus-90OA0KT432011FJU11UQ-Ato1-6-Eeepc900a-wfbb01-refurbished/dp/B0026KTZCG/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1283293137&sr=8-23

That one seems ok... I think


And you wanted to rant about this?
http://www.unclevic.com/ASUS-EEEPC701SD-WHI006L-EeePC-701SD-Celeron-M-630-MHz-7-Inch-White-Netbook?utm_source=google&utm_medium=base&utm_campaign=google_base

Edit: Just occured to me that those were old computers...

The first link you put up is decent for a bare-bones machine, but you're probably going to be stifled with the 4GB SSD. I wanted to rant about the second one because it's a Celeron. Never oh ever never ever get a Celeron (Intel) or a Sempron (AMD); they're just about the most depressingly-slow budget chips in the world. And those are indeed both pretty old computers.

Oh, ok.

Oh, and here's a small list of things I would use it for / use on it:
-Visual studio C#
-Web browsing (youtube, calc sites, etc)
-Word processing (microsoft word or open office)
-Music
-Nspire C

The list is probably unfinished, but that's a few things I would use it for.

Edit: Oh, and a nice touchpad, some I've tried have terrible touchpads x.x A nice touchpad imo means one that has easy to click buttons, is very easy to tap (as in click by tapping the mousepad)

Fair enough. So in other words, you want a Windows machine, not a Linux machine, considering that you listed Visual Studio C# on there? There are some nice, relatively cheap (in the $300 or sub-$300 range) netbooks on the market now that almost all have 1280x600 or 1024x600 screens, 160GB HDDs, 1GB or 2GB RAM, 1.86GHz Atom N470 processors, and "8-10 hour" (however accurate that may be) battery life with Windows 7 Starter. It sounds like one of those might be your best bet.

Cool The other day I went to BestBuy and saw almost the exact specs you listed, but completly forgot the name of the netbook :/ Which would be my best bet, ebay or someplace well known? Oh, and I will probably get a flavor of linux on it too But I would want to dualboot it that way I can get visual C# and such

I'd probably trust somewhere like NewEgg or TigerDirect for something like this, if you don't have too much experience with eBay. See if any of either of their netbook offerings appeal to you and we can tell you how the specs match up with your needs.

I've had my eye on the eeePC 1015PED for a while, but I haven't had the money to purchase it. The Asus web page for the specific model is down, but from what I can remember of it, it had USB 3.0! Newegg Links:

Red: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220784&cm_re=1015ped-_-34-220-784-_-Product

White: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220785&cm_re=1015ped-_-34-220-785-_-Product

Blue: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220783&cm_re=1015ped-_-34-220-783-_-Product

Black: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220782&cm_re=1015ped-_-34-220-782-_-Product

Trust me; the specs are AMAZING!
Beware, though: it will set you back $380!

How does this one look?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6363301&CatId=17

Edit: Woah! Am I good or what! This is the one I saw at bestbuy that I liked! And for like... 60 dollars less

Still an N270... not much older, but the Atom N280 or N400 series should be included at minimum, IMHO. It also has 90GB less capacity, a 3-cell battery, and (I'm almost completely sure...) USB 2.0. It also has XP, which is good for people who are not used to Aero yet; 7 Starter, however, while very limited for the 7 series, beats XP by a long shot!

EDIT: I *did* just realize the "cheeeeeeap" part of the first post lol.

It's WinXP and an N270, so it's slightly previous-generation, but that's an amazing price for what it is, and if BestBuy was selling it, it can't be too previous-generation. Everything you're talking about doesn't require too high specs, anyway, certainly not the kind of power my thesis had to drag out of my eeePC. The question is whether it will still be around when you're ready to get yours; you said it might not be until Christmas?

Yep, that's what I was just thinking too... And I know I probably won't be able to get it from my dad anytime soon (make that never) seeing as his wife thinks kids shouldn't own their own computers. I'm hoping to find /something/ to do for some money soon

Edit: Oh, and what's the difference between win7 and win7 starter? Because I have a win7 disk that I used to install it on this laptop, so could I just use that for the netbook?

If you used it and entered the key on the bottom of the netbook, you'd still end up with Win7 starter. The limitations of starter are that it can't run as many simultaneous applications, and you can't set custom desktop backgrounds, although Asus themselves have released a program to let you get around the backgrounds issue.

Cool

Edit: Is it ok to be judging the age of netbooks by the storage in their hard drive? ie, a 4 gb hard drive is probably an old computer, whereas an 80 gb drive is newer, and 160+ is very new?

Edit2: http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-Eee-PC-Netbook-160GB-1GB-RAM-EPC900HDB-BLK001X-/110577202540?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item19beea356c#ht_3562wt_911

http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-EEEPC-900HDB-RED001X-RED-160GB-HDD-XP-w-Webcam-/190436183753?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item2c56e18ec9#ht_1104wt_911

These look like nice buys for nice prices, am I correct?

Good luck if you intend on running Visual Studio 2010 on a netbook. My desktop has 2GB RAM and a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo and Visual Studio 2010 limps along pathetically (whereas I'd happily run four or five instances of 2008 without breaking a sweat).

Yeah, I'll probably run 2008 assuming microsoft kept it up there

You're complaining about Celerons being slow when discussing netbooks running an Atom? Atom is the slowest and most basic CPU Intel has made in the past 5 years. The only real drawback of Celeron is that it has less cache than its higher end counterparts - the execution engine and everything is still the same. If that Celeron was clocked at 1ghz, it would quite likely keep up with the 1.6ghz Atom.

EDIT: Yup, clock for clock the Celeron-M dominates the Atom:
http://www.laptopet.com/2008/04/first-benchmark-atom-cpu-vs-via-isaiah.html

Yeah, but then compare the power consumption of a Celeron with an Atom, and you'll see the bigger pictures.

4w for the Atom vs. 5.5w for the Celeron.

Yup, totally worth that 1.5w to have a CPU that is technologically inferior to the Pentium Pro - released in 1995.

I'll stick to my 10w dual core 1.3ghz C2D CULV thank-you-very-much. Which utterly spanks Atom: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2932/intel-core-2-culv-roundup-who-needs-atom-/6

But Atom is crazy cheap. For $200, get an Atom. For $400+, get a CULV and ignore that Atom garbage.