Page 2 - ASUS or macbook?

WAIT wait wait.... the guy is looking for a "Small and Light" laptop.... macbooks (not even the macbook air) fullfill this category. Sure... the air is light... but its still got a 15 inch screen.. so it won't fit comfortably in your shoulder bag (add to that the fact that its got no drives, almost no ports... forget it)

if you like Asus, then go for the Eee PC... they actually work really well (played with them at the store...surprisingly zippy!), they're small, light, impact resistant(SSD), have great battery life... and they're CHEAP... use that on the go, and you've saved yourself money to buy a nice powerful rig for at home.

or go for the new HP 2133 mini-note http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/08/hp-mini-note-2133-officially-official/

also cheap, also plenty powerful for mobile uses (of course not gaming) also small and light with great battery life. but a larger LCD than the EeePC... and prettier on the outside. Uses a VIA chip tho...

or if you have a lot of money to spend (i see people throwing the number $1400 around) you could go for a lenovo thinkpad x series. The newest ones will run you $3000, but you can get a used one for much less... if you're willing to consider a used macbook, I would consider a used thinkpad first. I have an x40 thats 4 years old, well used and still works like a dream (even the super small 4 cell battery still gives me 1.5 hours on an old 1.0 ghz centrino).

edit: I just looked at that ASUS U3S-A1W.... that is pretty sweet for $1500...

Macbooks and macbook airs both fulfill the small and light category.

Portables are generally 12"-13" and 4-6 lbs. Ultraportables generally are 2-3 lbs.

The macbook air does not have a 15" screen it has a 13" screen, its the same as the macbook. The macbook weighs just over 5lbs and is also a small and light laptop.

And yes EEE's, cloudbooks and HPs version are extremely light. But are severely underpowered.

severely underpowered is kind of a strong statement. It all depends on what you intend to do with it.

and 5lbs is not light.... maybe you're training for a triathalon, but I certainly wouldn't like carrying around a 5lb computer in a shoulder bag.

as for the screen size being 13 and not 15... my bad.

maybe my opinion of small and light is warped by the fact that I live in Japan...

we've got some crazy stuff over here.... ultraportables are way more popular than in the states

Well its severely underpowered for anything but im and internet.

And 5lbs is not that heavy, I carry my laptop around with me everyday, never have any issues with it whatsover weight/size wise.

And yes you have a lot of nicer stuff over here, other than things like an underpowered ee, ultra portables are insanely expensive.

BTW, this thread is 2+ months old, been revived twice, I don't even know where the Original poster is.

what else would you use a laptop for, other than IM and internet? an EeePC would be plenty powerful for office applications, music listening, movie watching... java and flash games, educational uses...

not that the EeePC has the HDD space for any of that tho! (honestly... 8G max... sad... the only thing that keeps me from buying one right now.)

Who actually plays an FPS or a major pretty MOORPG on their laptop?

and sorry about the thread being 2 months old.. the last post was only 12 days ago... so i figured it was still relevant... That and I'm dead bored at work... Its that season again...

only crappy thing about eeepc is the screen... and the price isnt all that cheap either tbh. i've seen 15 inch laptops with dual cores and 2 gb ram at 500-600$....

hard drie being 8 gigs, you can add a usb key which can contain 16 gb for the price of half the eeepc if you wanted to...

The screen is pretty small...

but about the price comparison.... you have to remember you're paying a premium for the size and the battery life.

Do the $600 crap laptops that Dell sells last for 3 hours on a charge? And how much do they weigh? And can you drop them from a table and expect them to keep working fine? Its comparing apples to strawberries... both sweet fruit... but the strawberries are so much tastier and harder to grow... thats why they cost just as much for a box as you'd spend for a big bag of apples. (over here its like $5 for a handfull... so if you think my comparison is dumb then its because I've been in this country way too long)

on another note... I'd opt for the HP mini-note over the EeePC anyway...

but were I rich and my wife loosened my chain... I would buy something much more expensive

personally i'd love a laptop with a 14 inch oled screen, doing 1440x900, lipoly battery which lasts 8x longer than the normal one, SSD hdd, dvd burner could be optional where a battery could replace it when not needed.

of course, today, such a thing would most likely cost 23000$ or so.

the x300 is only $3k... start saving up! I'm pretty sure there are lots of sony laptops with led backlit displays...

i don't know about oled displays tho... i don't really understand what the advantages of oled are either... they go bad sooner than regular leds and they cost a lot (well... now anyway, could change in the future) is there a big difference in power consumption or color?

$3000.. that's a ton. Considering all of the other laptops considered have been around $1000, that's definitely out of the budget.