netbook purchased

samsung nc-10 (not mine, mine won't be here for a few days)

after many late nights reading about netbooks and battery life and all sorts of reviews... (not to mention two false starts in purchasing them) i finally bought a samsung nc-10. i actually bought a asus and another samsung (both of which i cancelled) before finally buying the one i did. the main reason was that the time i spent thinking about buying one wasn't worth the delay of waiting to get one a couple months down the line. it was just easier and better for me to get one and move on to bigger and better things. (the quotebook is now the top priority on the project list, followed by spring break planning - post on that coming up soon).

the main reason i got the one that did was for the battery life and the build quality.

• lots of reviews up the battery life with normal use (including wi-fi) at 6-6.5 hours. that's prefect for what i'd like to use it for. be it all day at school or on my spring break trip (it also has a built in sd card reader so that makes my life a lot easier).
• the keyboard is also listed as best-in-class and with it being smaller than the standard keyboard and being spoiled by the thinkpad keyboards which are simply industry best-in-class. i figured what the hey.
• the biggest negative is that it's more expensive than most netbooks (although you pay for quality so it's not a huge deal). also new and better netbooks are bound to come around, but again it's not a huge concern for me. in 18 months if they're leaps and bounds ahead then we'll figure something else out.
  

the only thing that really stinks is that the netbook won't come for a few days.