I've got a nice little Lenovo s10e - its the same one the Dept of Education hands out to public school teachers & students.
Its got 2GB RAM, Window XP Home (I installed Ubuntu 10.04 netbook remix), 160GB 4200 rpm disk and an Intel Atom CPU... all for... $299. The extra 1GB RAM cost me $30. The battery lasts roughly ~ 4 hours with Wifi and/or bluetooth Internet tethering to my phone. OK, the keyboard is shitze and its not quite my Macbook Pro in terms of grunt or build quality - but I take it to hackathons, meet ups and use it if I get a seat on the trains - running Ubuntu is great and everything works right out of the box (webcam included!) - no funky modules to compile and all that boring stuff. If you wanted something that needed to last - definitely get a Macbook like Sri suggests, otherwise over 3 years this is errr. $8.31 / month :D hehehehe. P.S. I'm sure Mathematica and Matlab would work fine too on it! On 3 June 2010 16:17, Sri Panyam <sri.pan...@gmail.com> wrote: > How about just a MacBook pro? Pretty powerful at abt 2500 and the fact that > it will satisfy your power requirement forabout 3 years that's 800 bucks a > year or about 70 bucks a month. > > If you don't plan to do iPhone develoment a similarly speced Dell would cost > you about 1700 - 50 bucks a month! > > And these are fairly above mid range! > > Sent from my iPhone > > Twitter - @panyam > Blog - http://panyam.wordpress.com > > > > On 03/06/2010, at 4:08 PM, "rgh....@gmail.com" <rgh....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Jun 3, 2:05 pm, Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli <lavieestbe...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> What tasks does she want to be able to do? >>> >>> Emails / Internet / Pictures management? >>> Office tasks? (Word/Excel) >>> Watching videos? >>> Playing games? >> >> Nothing, she has a PhD in Statistics and has more computer power than >> most (ie IBM 390 with disk farm) >> >> But she may use it watch videos and playing a few games but she may >> also use to write a few apps. >> >> Richard Hayes >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach >> Australia mailing list. >> >> Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF >> >> No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm >> >> To post to this group, send email to >> silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
