Gateway LT Series LT4004u Black Intel Atom N2600(1.60GHz) 10.1" WSVGA 1GB DDR3 Memory 250GB HDD Netbook

Pros: Price, obviously. Tiny and lightweight - every bit as portable as a tablet, in my opinion. Battery life - I don't know what it's like stock, but I get 6 hours easily with the SSD I threw in. HDMI. 3 USB ports (2 on the right side, 1 on the left).

Cons: Keyboard is usable, but don't expect to type at your full rate. Kind of a pain to disassemble, compared to laptops anyway. Speaker and webcam quality are even worse than I'd anticipated. 1 GB stock RAM is pretty meh. High-gloss surface means lots of fingerprints (obviously I'm kind of grasping at straws here).

Also, the F-keys are mapped by default so that their secondary functions are the primary keystroke action, and actually using the F-keys requires holding down Fn. For stuff like the volume control keys, this is nice, but it's easy to accidentally hit F3 to disable the wifi adapter or something.

Other Thoughts: I swapped out the HDD and RAM for a nice, fast SSD and 2 GB stick as soon as I got it. Currently have Windows 7 Pro x64 and Lubuntu dual-booted - it boots to either very quickly. A couple other things to note:

* Don't try Windows 8. Native screen resolution is 1024x600, but Windows 8 only supports 1024x768 and up, so it'll give you a hard time when you try to run your programs.

* The Gateway site lists the wifi adapter as Atheros. I don't know what brand the hardware actually is, but I needed the Broadcom driver to get it to work on Windows 7. YMMV.

* Even if you think you know what you're doing, don't try to physically open it up without at least taking a look at a Youtube tutorial or something - the assembly is completely unorthodox and there are some great tutorials.

Pros: Dual core. Fast for a netbook. Installed ADATA 4GB memory and 256GB SSD loaded with Windows 7 Pro 32bit all from Newegg. The System window says 2.99GB of memory is usable. Boots so fast the colored balls on the start screen never show. A YouTube video shows how to open and replace memory and HDD. Supplied HDD is actually 320GB. Mine was Western Digital, the video showed a Toshiba.

Cons: Small, Chiclet keyboard, no optical drive, more difficult to get to hard drive and memory than laptops, disappearing fast.

Other Thoughts: Best used as a PC for trips. Small size fits easily in my camera backpack. Need a real PC for downloading and viewing photos, printing boarding passes and using internet. Still available on some websites. A shame, this netbook shows the concept was just starting to develop.

Pros: this is everything a notebook has to be with its ups and downs. Out of the box it looks good, and this thing is very portable with excellent battery life. Can be upgraded with some effort, and this is the netbook you can carry around, beat up, and not worry too much about it getting stolen or damaged. Processing power can be squeezed to "acceptable" with a RAM upgrade and it will be ok to watch video.

Cons: If you need to do more than web browsing and office work, forget about this, even with upgrades it will not perform to acceptable levels. Gaming? forget it, unless you're playing sudoku or tetris. Upgrading is difficult specially if have no experience disassembling electronics. Keyboard is among the worst I have came accross

Other Thoughts: Installing a 4GB RAM and win7 ultimate, made this netbook to perform acceptably(it is a netbook after all), I will have to try with Ubuntu. The SSD upgrade is not worth it on this machine. You can get this same netbook brand new for the same price at wallys. So 1 egg for lousy keyboard and 1 egg for the price.

Pros: This netbook has a sleek design, so it is visually appealing. Quick to boot, and handles all of the tasks that you would perform on a netbook. It is trivial to upgrade the memory to 2 Gb, so I would *highly recommend it*. I purchased this as a birthday / christmas present for my sister who has an out-of-date Acer. I am very happy with this purchase!

Cons: Windows 7 Starter. Enough said with that. If this were my netbook, I would install some flavor of linux. Windows Starter is rather awful.

Additionally, there is quite a bit of crapware installed. Once you remove all of the garbage, there is a significant amount of free space gained.

Other Thoughts: I would recommend this to anyone wanting an inexpensive netbook for casual computing -- emails, word processing, social media. If you want a netbook for gaming, you are an odd duck and will find yourself out of luck. An ultrabook is more along the lines of what you may be looking for.

Once again, this is a fantastic machine for the casual user. It would be even better with a different OS.

Pros: My familiarity with Windoze made this netbook easy to use. I bougt this one to take with me on my travels - my Android tablet simply was not up to the task. The Gateway is quick, well built, and the 6 cell battery does last a long, long time - and is one of the major reasons I bought this unit. Some searching on the web helped me find a freeware program that allows control of the wallpaper on a Win 7 Starter PC, so now it looks just like its big brother that I use at home.

Cons: It's a bit difficult to upgrade the system memory - since it can be done, Gateway should have made it easier.

Other Thoughts: While I haven't been on a trip with it yet, using it for lots of hours as I set it up and added programs have shown me it will be a blast and very handy. Many thanks to NewEgg for such a good deal.

Pros: Build quality, good keyboard, exceptional battery life, portable.

Cons: average processor speeds, not enough hard drive capacity

Other Thoughts: All in all an excellent buy for $179, no tax, and free shipping. Gateway reliability has always been good. Take advantage of this deal, come next year I doubt there will be many net books available.

Pros: It works great!, but it is alittle slow.
Which was something I was expecting.
Plays music and videos fine, no glitching.
I love how small it is so there is no hassle when traveling.

Cons: The only thing I didn't like about this netbook was the limitations 'Windows 7 Starter' offers however I did find some work arounds.

Pros: A fully functional netbook for under $200. This thing has 2 physical cores and 2 virtual.

Cons: Memory was a little low. Windows 7 starter. Intel graphics are a Joke. Keyboard has a 2-3 second delay after using touchpad and both cannot be used at the same time, which is really annoying you are entering fields on websites and after right clicking, you must wait to enter the text.

Other Thoughts: I upgraded this to 2 gigs of ram and it runs almost flawlessly. I tried linux mint live on it and it ran almost flawlessly. Will most likely be installing linux side by side with windows and if it is better, I will be wiping out windows 7 starter (might fix the clicking I will keep you all posted).

Pros: Portable/Light (compared to my 17.5in Laptop), great battery life, great price... Exactly why I got this thing

Cons: Microsoft Office "Starter" Edition: I figured I'd try this out then I start tinkering with it and find out it has an AdBar that takes up about 1/5 of your already packed screen...

No biggie, uninstall and get Apache OpenOffice

Other Thoughts: I went a little overboard, upgraded the RAM to 2GB and swapped out the 320GB WD Blue HDD (for reference) with a 120GB Kingston SSD... 2 Reasons: first I don't need 300+ GB's of storage on a netbook, it'll serve me better in the external enclosure I put it in, and secondly since this netbook is for school an SSD is generally more able to handle going in and out of a backpack and being "thrown around" because there's no platter to worry about. No the only moving part in this thing is the fan.

And in case you're feeling froggy too, both of those components were a breeze to swap out, just watch the youtube video first and then again to walk yourself through it...

Pros: The size is great for what I needed. It seems to work well without any problems.

Cons: The first one loss the picture. RMA was fast and without a hitch. I received the second netbook in good time. The only problem is this one has a three cell battery instead of the six cell battery.

Other Thoughts: Buy if your a gambler.