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Hi!

I have an article that will not die! I have been trying to delete it (it's under review) but it won't go away...what can I do?

All I *have* done is click the "delete" button a few times...maybe there is a trick I don't know about?

After you hit "delete", a little box pops up that asks you to cinfirm the deletion. I think it says "delete" or "get back". Did that happen for you?

Weird...no. I'll try again. I am on a little net book...maybe the box is in a corner or something and I couldn't see it.

Thanks.

That's *exactly* what happened...thanks, Debbi! I had to scroll up to see the box. I have a **very** tiny screen.

THANKS!!

How do you like writing on a NetBook? I've been trying to decide whether to get one of those, or a full size laptop.

Love my EEE PC. Asus is a great company. I did a lot of research, and am very happy with it.

Pros:

Cheap
Dependable
Easy to use
Great battery
Reliable company with good products/best motherboard in the business right now


Cons:

Keyboard funky...check out reviews...it helps if you have small hands
It's tiny (both pro and con)


You get what you pay for. It is very inexpensive. I would think that you would need another "real" computer, but I use my net book more and more...rarely do I run into trouble. Do my homework, writing and emailing. My son made a short movie on it : ), but it can't handle tooo much...

Also, I'm coming from Apple, so I have pretty high standards. Asus has met them.

Thanks for the review. I just had another friend recommend the EEE. I'll check it out!

KK,

You're welcome! We are all here to help one another

Debbi

I've got an EEE PC too -- actually 2 of them (the 8.9 inch screen and the 10.1 inch screen). I didn't like the smaller one because of the keyboard (and I have small hands already!) and the screen size. The EEE PC Asus 1000HA is the one I love. I've been using it as my main computer since November 2008 and I'm very happy with it. When I'm in my home office, I just plug it to my 24-inch monitor if I want more screen space. The keyboard is 94% the size of a regular keyboard and I get about 6 hours on the battery. I bought an extended battery on eBay and I can get 11 hours on that one. I also bought another gig of RAM on Amazon so it's much faster and I can do a lot more on it (I have Adobe Photoshop CS installed in this little thing and it works perfectly.) I love how I can bring it with me everywhere, even on long trips. We recently went on a camping trip in July and I was able to work and be online the whole time (10 days). I had a 12-volt battery to recharge my EEE and a Boost cellphone (free internet!) to check my emails and upload articles on CC. And when we went on a road trip from California to Idaho, I worked on the EEE the whole trip. Heh, sorry to go on and on about my netbook, guys...I just love this little thing!

That's the same EEE PC I have!

Okay, now I want to know more about Boost mobile. I have Cricket now - how do you hook it up to your laptop?

I have both Cricket and Boost. I use the Cricket at home and around the valley (between Porterville and Modesto) although surprisingly, it worked in Spokane, WA when we passed through there during the road trip to Idaho. The Boost mobile, we got one of those Boost-ready cellphones for $25 (got it at Best Buy; the phone looks like a Hershey chocolate bar) and my husband set it up so that we hook it up to the laptop (one end is a firewire I think that attaches to the phone and the other end plugs to the USB) and dial-up like you would dial up to the Internet on your home phone. I don't know all the details, but as soon as hubby wakes up, I'll ask him and post here. I like Boost too because we don't pay monthly fees on it -- we just need to deposit $10 every 3 months -- and the Internet on it is free. You can install Opera Mini on the phone and you can check emails or surf the web for free. It's not as high-tech as the iPhone or the Android, but hey -- a cellphone that costs just $40 a year beats everything!

I chose a laptop as a desktop replacement a few years ago. It finally needed replaced earlier this week and I asked myself if a netbook was the next step for me. No. I do so much on my computer, day in, day out, that I need a decent screen and keyboard as well as TONS of processing power and memory. I briefly considered some of the smaller notebooks with screens in the 13-inch range and couldn't do it - they were just too small. Looked at the netbooks and said, "Not for me - way too small." I also briefly considered some of the new monster laptops with screens in the 19-inch (plus) range and couldn't do that either - they were just too big. I found a few laptops with numeric keypads included as part of the keyboard which had me salivating at first until I realized how off center my hands would be typing 98% of the time.

My husband's laptop is much smaller and perfect for traveling though I don't mind hauling my larger one in the least. It really depends on how you use your computer and how often you need to go portable. I like the larger screen and keyboard of mine and it's great for moving around the house and the occasional trip. On the other hand, if I had to take it with me to a bunch of places regularly, I'd make a different choice. My husband's is small and he brings it home each day, but he has a docking station at work and spends most of his time with it fully docked with a full-sized keyboard and monitor. Think about the old Pareto principle - how do you spend 80% of your computing time? If you're on the go 80% of the time, you'll have a different need than those who are at their desks 80% of the time. If you spend most of your time with resource-loving programs, you'll need a computer with power built in. If you spend most of your time typing, the keyboard is crucial.

For me, it was hard to choose between a smaller notebook like my husband's and a larger one like my older one, but in the end, I went with a larger one that covered most of my needs - actually it anticipates my future needs so I'm thinking I'm okay for another couple of years. I wish that a netbook would've worked for me as the concept is so cool, but for the way I use my computer a netbook would not have worked.

Boost has free Internet? I have Boost and pay as I go, but haven't heard that. Cool! I'll have to check it out. You know how companies change plans every so often and don't announce the changes to older subscribers... I use Boost but the last I knew Internet access was additional.

I agree with Celeste on choosing the right laptop/netbook. Before I transitioned to my EEE PC, I had a 15-inch HP laptop I bought in 2006. It was powerful enough for all the writing and graphic designs I was doing, but towards the end of 2008, it was starting to give out. I debated between getting another laptop or a netbook, but it was the portability and long battery life plus decent computing power that made me decide to go with the netbook. Plus we travel a lot and I hated lugging around a huge laptop the last 2.5 years. When I'm home, the netbook is set up like it's a desktop -- I hook it up to a big monitor and I have a regular size keyboard plugged in. When I need to cook or do some housework, I unplug the netbook and take it with me in the kitchen and I work on it in between chores. And when I need to do a lot of writing, I've found my Alphasmart Dana very useful -- I'm not distracted by the Internet (I'm a compulsive email checker and a random surfer) when I work on the Dana. My husband had a 17-inch HP laptop and that is our "desktop" computer now. He got a 12-inch 64-bit laptop (a tweener actually -- not a netbook, but not a full-blown laptop either). I actually wanted it when it arrived (haha!) just because the screen was bigger than my netbook, but I changed my mind (wife's prerogative!) after a day because the battery life sucked!

Celeste: Yes, Boost has free Internet. We found out about it in 2006 when we were shopping for cellphones. I think it depends on the type of network the phone connects to. Hubby researched about getting it hooked up on a laptop for dialing up. I think he installed some software. You will have to find the right type of Boost cellphone for the free Internet. (Hubby's still asleep - I'm not so good with remembering specific model numbers!)