My laptop has seen better days, it's had it all, viruses, broken mouse buttons, blue screen all the kind of stuff a 2 1/2 year old laptop gets over it's lifetime. It's a miracle it still works to be honest. Anyway yesterday one of the hinges on the screen cracked and subsiquently (meaning after I tried to fix it) broke off.
Anyway I have decided that now is the time I need a new laptop, I have no money so my dad has agreed to lend me £300 in order to get one.
Anyway, I have been looking at some replacements. I have been considering two things.
1. Buying a netbook as it is much smaller and lighter. I walk a lot so this may be good for me as my current laptop is heavy, also it is fairly cheap.
2. Buying a linux based laptop, I only do word processing, spreadheets and surfing on my laptop. I hear linux performs pretty well if you ignore compatibility. Also many netbooks are linux based so I have a wider option.
I don't care about games as I have a PC just for gaming. Memory isn't an issue either as I keep most of my work stuff on an external HDD anyway as backup.
So what do you think? Shall just get a regular ol' laptop? Are netbooks any good?
Also if anyone has linux I would love to hear opnions such as what is word processing like? is openoffice any good? Is it compatible with word? Can I get MS word emulated or something similar?
