Laptop/Notebook Advice

[Altamira]

Hi,

First of all i dont know the difference between Laptop and notebook, sorry if the topic is misleading. Lets get back on track. Im in urgent need for a laptop (or should i say notebook!? 🙂, for University paper works and for field work (investigation), im studying archeaology so i will need something portable, as light as possible (lets say around 2-3Kg), fairly resistent/reliable/stable and with a good battery autonomy. I will use it for Word text and Powerpoint presentation and problably some small photo editing/manipulation (in photoshop). As far as games, no will not use it for games, i have a pc desktop for that. The country i live the most commons laptop producers are Asus, Toshiba, Sony, HP, Lenovo, Acer, LG and some others. Its very difficult to get Dell or Gateway, or almost impossible so this producers are out for me. My price tag is around 1,150.00 US Dollars. As i said its urgent. Please give some hints/advices/opinions, its the first laptop i buy and i dont know much about laptop advantages and functionalities.

Thank you all

 

[Blain]

" SFF, Notebooks" Forum

 

[Altamira]

sorry, can someone erase this post, i´ve already changed it to the right one.

 

[Jiggz]

What you need is a netbook! Google Asus EEE PC 1000HA it cost around $400.00 and last about 5-6 hours on the battery.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Jiggz
What you need is a netbook! Google Asus EEE PC 1000HA it cost around $400.00 and last about 5-6 hours on the battery.

I second this suggestion. Both me and my daughter have one(me=900, girl=700), and they're great little computers. Very portable, and more than powerful enough for normal office type activities. I'm running Ubuntu-eee on both of mine, and I think that would work well for you also if you want to give Linux a try.