Toshiba or ASUS Netbooks...hella nice!

[thesmokindragon]

picked up a Toshiba netbook about a year ago, these are perfect for surf'in pipesmagazine.com, email and

of course processing pipes and bacci orders online while sitting at the smoke-lounge or coffee shop :lol:

 

[cyndi]

All of our kids have Toshibas because the cases are sturdier. No matter how often you tell a kid "don't drop the computer!" it happens about once a week. Bootleg and I both have ASUS laptops because the innards are better quality as are the screens and the webcams.
Our problem? When you run an average of 18 wireless devices and 2 hardline devices through one home network the router gets a little freaked out.

 

[ck12]

I got an Asus Transformer tablet and i am loving it. The thing is amazing and i highly recommend it especially at a price for $400.

 

[thesmokindragon]

I hear that cyndi, I have a few year old dual-band wireless router which I keep all the kid comps, DSIs, game-stations, etc on 2.4ghz or hard-lines to switch and me and the mrs. on the 5Ghz band along with my home-built A/V streamer/Linux server (Fedora Desktop is free Linux OS, then put Ampache server install on it for your own audio streamer to iphones, ipads, home A/V is pretty killer all for FREE)
I have had Toshiba laptops over the years (dropped several times by kids/me ;-) and some engineering friends over

at Toshiba and they also say they are made pretty well so can't go wrong for the unit/price of them these days...I just like the extended batt life of the netbooks for web/email surf'in and also use it in the field for tech support ;-)

 

[pstlpkr]

No wonder it's hard for me to keep up...

I guess it's time to sharpen my chisel..

 

[thesmokindragon]

@Cyndi, you could also off-load (if you are going hard-line directly into the wireless-router, by getting

a Dell entry-level GB switch, even offloading the switch'in to your hard-line stuff here might help the effects of

over-taxed network