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[hugoadelgado]

Ok so i am interested in buying one of them mini-laptops they sell here in korea,, i have look at them through websites but never actually held on. I want to know if anybody has any advice on this. I am looking at maybe the webrain,
<http://global.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=129776598&pos_shop_cd=SH&pos_class_cd=111111111&pos_class_kind=T&keyword_order=wibrain>

or the msi
<http://global.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=153006694&pos_shop_cd=GE&pos_class_cd=300004039&pos_class_kind=S. >

They look pretty good, i'm not much of a gamer so i'm looking for something portatable that can do the basic stuff. If anybody knows any others i should look at or if they know about any problems with these please let me know.

also, is it a big hassel to change korean windows to english windows?

[DCJames]

I bought the Asus EEE PC 1000H last weekend and am very satisfied with it.

It comes with a 10 inch screen, 1 gb memory, 160 gb hard drive, Wireless LAN and a webcam. All this for 600,000 won. Not bad at all.

I asked for English Windoows and the guy installed a copy for me.

[OneWayTraffic]

Have a look at the Raon Everun and Note.

http://www.raondigital.com/fnt_korean/

Also the Dell Mini 9 is available now for 500,000won in HiMart, same as the online price from Dell's website. I had a play with it today, and it's on my want list.

And of course the MSI Wind, EEEPC etc.

Think carefully about what you want to do with it. If it's going to be your main computer you may be better off with a proper notebook. If you're just going to do websurfing and Office tasks then it will be fine (with an external keyboard.) If you want to use it on the subway or bus the Wibrain or Everun will come into its own.

The Everun Note is actually the fastest netbook available anywhere. It's got a duo core AMD cpu and a ATI 1200 graphics card. It's about twice as fast as a Atom netbook and in a smaller package. The regular Everun is the same size as a PSP but gruntless (I have one and it's great for subway and sofa use but no more.) the Everun note is about 850,000won.

[OneWayTraffic]

Have a look at the Raon Everun and Note.

http://www.raondigital.com/fnt_korean/

Also the Dell Mini 9 is available now for 500,000won in HiMart, same as the online price from Dell's website. I had a play with it today, and it's on my want list.

And of course the MSI Wind, EEEPC etc.

Think carefully about what you want to do with it. If it's going to be your main computer you may be better off with a proper notebook. If you're just going to do websurfing and Office tasks then it will be fine (with an external keyboard.) If you want to use it on the subway or bus the Wibrain or Everun will come into its own. Keep in mind that the CPU in these gives you about half the power of an Atom netbook, it's good for a lot of things, but you need to choose applications with an eye on this.

The Everun Note is actually the fastest netbook available anywhere. It's got a duo core AMD cpu and a ATI 1200 graphics card. It's about twice as fast as a Atom netbook and in a smaller package. The regular Everun is the same size as a PSP but gruntless (I have one and it's great for subway and sofa use but no more.) the Everun note is about 850,000won.

[hugoadelgado]

thanks guys this really gives me some thinking about to do

[bassexpander]

The Dell Mini 9 maxes-out at 1 gig of Ram. What are you gonna do when XP is no longer supported? Run Linux? No thanks.

Vista needs a lot more than 1 gig to be happy.

[DCJames]

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[OneWayTraffic]

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[bassexpander]

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[OneWayTraffic]

Thanks, I'll have a look. Why is it an issue though? I wouldn't be doing that as far as I can tell.

[bassexpander]

Maybe that's by design.

Some monitors are made to go black when you look at them from the side. Many business notebooks are designed that way, to keep prying eyes from looking at business documents.

[DCJames]