We're considering a 1:1 program with netbooks, so we wanted student feedback. We did an informal survey (scale 1-10) where students evaluated four models of netbooks. (See table below). Unfortunately, battery life wasn't a factor considered. For elementary students, the keyboard size shouldn't matter much. We also didn't have an Asus for comparison. I think a 6 cell battery on a tiny screen like the Asus should last more than 3 hours easily. As you can see, the HP was by far most popular. If I recall correctly, it's also the most expensive. Surprisingly, the HP has the smallest screen, but students didn't view it as a negative.
Acer One
We have 24 Acer One’s here we are in beta with. The hardest thing we face so far was trimming bloatware and getting XP pro to start quickly. We are at about a minute to start from off and about 1 minute for a new user to login. We hope windows 7 will have a netbook version that is a better fit. Running Firefox, chrome, and open office portable apps right now. We are only using 3 cells, but the battery life is fine, and probably could be better if we were to dim the screen a little.
Unfortunately we have not set these loose anywhere, and 20 are still “in the box” until we have a nice solid image. We needed to run XP Pro to save headaches with trying Linux. We also have three machine like you are buying, two with study hall monitors for attendance and web, and one with physical education. All run all day, on a charge but are not in constant use.
My tek director just gave me 3 models to test out very briefly. There was a Samsung model (maybe NC10?) whose keyboard was noticeably larger and more comfortable, and whose battery life and power management piece was superior. The others were from HP and I think the other was Acer or something like that. Yeah, so check out the Samsung model.
eeePC
We just bought 10 eepC’s to try about a month ago. One completely dead the first week, one battery died the next week, and one that would not charge. Switched batteries with another machine and both seem to be working for now. I’m not impressed. The quality seems to be very sub par.
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We're considering a 1:1 program with netbooks, so we wanted student feedback. We did an informal survey (scale 1-10) where students evaluated four models of netbooks. (See table below). Unfortunately, battery life wasn't a factor considered. For elementary students, the keyboard size shouldn't matter much. We also didn't have an Asus for comparison. I think a 6 cell battery on a tiny screen like the Asus should last more than 3 hours easily. As you can see, the HP was by far most popular. If I recall correctly, it's also the most expensive. Surprisingly, the HP has the smallest screen, but students didn't view it as a negative.Acer One
We have 24 Acer One’s here we are in beta with. The hardest thing we face so far was trimming bloatware and getting XP pro to start quickly. We are at about a minute to start from off and about 1 minute for a new user to login. We hope windows 7 will have a netbook version that is a better fit. Running Firefox, chrome, and open office portable apps right now. We are only using 3 cells, but the battery life is fine, and probably could be better if we were to dim the screen a little.Unfortunately we have not set these loose anywhere, and 20 are still “in the box” until we have a nice solid image. We needed to run XP Pro to save headaches with trying Linux. We also have three machine like you are buying, two with study hall monitors for attendance and web, and one with physical education. All run all day, on a charge but are not in constant use.
My tek director just gave me 3 models to test out very briefly. There was a Samsung model (maybe NC10?) whose keyboard was noticeably larger and more comfortable, and whose battery life and power management piece was superior. The others were from HP and I think the other was Acer or something like that. Yeah, so check out the Samsung model.
eeePC
We just bought 10 eepC’s to try about a month ago. One completely dead the first week, one battery died the next week, and one that would not charge. Switched batteries with another machine and both seem to be working for now. I’m not impressed. The quality seems to be very sub par.