Good netbook or small laptop for wife?

[cpals]

We have an old Dell 8600 she's using now and it's time for an upgrade. She mainly uses it for surfing the web and Skype.

What would be a good netbook that's decent speed, got a decent camera, 'cute' factor, etc?

Price - $300-$500

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

why do you need an upgrade if the 8600 can do the web surfing and skyping pretty well already? Do you want better battery life or better performance or what?

 

[cpals]

She wanted something smaller, built-in webcam, lighter, etc.

The performance is also lacking a bit, so I wasn't sure if it would be better worthwhile to put $150 or so into upgrading the memory/hard drive in the current laptop or using that money to get a new, sleeker netbook.

 

[Fayd]

MSI U230. my vote.

 

[Rottie]

try dell vostro a90 netbook