netbook
If you can find the MSI x340 for under $500 you should buy it. The machine is light, slim, and has a good user interface. The 13" screen is the right size for a portable work or entertainment computer. The x340 is what netbooks should have been; the keyboard/trackpad is optimal for real work, the battery will last long enough to watch two movies, and the screen size isn't a joke.
I love that new computer smell. I also love how clean my new computer’s HD is. Eventually the HD will get cluttered with apps, documents, music, videos and plenty of detritus and no matter how much I fight the urge, my pack rat nature will turn this hackbook into a lead-footed abacus. Between now and that inevitable point, I’ve come up with some ideas (some original, others not) to help stave off the slow down and get the most utility from my netbook’s 10 inch screen.
This Christmas I received the fantastic little laptop that everyone has been talking about - the Dell Mini 10v. I dual booted it with Snow Leopard and Windows 7 Ultimate. A project that required much less effort than I thought it would require. This was thanks to a superlative guide, edited from an amalgamation of several guides, but damn easy to read and clear to follow. The link to that guide is here. The guide was created in late December 2009 and updated again early this year.
You probably noticed that your ihack mini, hackbook pro, hackbook (or whatever name you've given your ihacked netbook,) probably runs slow during multiple processes that you take for granted. These include things like load times, startup times, processing times, website load times. Even strange finder settings may take extra time. So here are some ways to eliminate those frustrations and ultimately maintain the life of your netbook and your sanity.
