Looking for something cheap to use for the 2 weeks HP will be holding my laptop for their "service and repair" my budget is small... Any suggestions?

__________________
hum.....
1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

Depends what you need it for. My ASUS netbook has been a fantastic investment for basic work like reading/writing schoolwork, surfing the net, music/movies. Any sort of processor-intensive work is tough on it though, like video editing but Photoshop runs okay. Highly recommend one of these since they're so cheap, light, portable. The only problem I had was when my 32" television randomly fell off of my dresser and smashed the thing. Amazingly it only busted the screen which was a $40 replacement since they are relatively small.

__________________
TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

I mainly use the computer to visit sites, Post here etc, I dont do too much Graphics stuff but I use Dreamweaver once in awhile though. I've heard good things about Asus, I'll look into them, Thanks!

__________________
hum.....
1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

14 days? What a great opportunity to be "unplugged."

Your public library. Or whatever laptop a friend has laying around.

__________________
1998 C230 330,000 miles (currently dead of second failed EIS, yours will fail too, turning you into the dealer's personal human cash machine)
1988 F150 144,000 miles (leaks all the colors of the rainbow)
Previous stars: 1981 Brava 210,000 miles, 1978 128 150,000 miles, 1977 B200 Van 175,000 miles, 1972 Vega (great, if rusty, car), 1972 Celica, 1986.5 Supra

I spent 3 months last year unplugged do to lack of funds. It gets old....Quick. I'll see whats available on Craigslist for cheap..

__________________
hum.....
1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

APPL iPhone $100 USD + activation. Nice little computer - works as a phone too.

My brother does all his business on his iPhone now... rarely ever touches his laptop anymore.

__________________
Codifex
1981 240D ChinaBlue (Got her running with a donor engine.)
1983 300DTurbo w/sunroof.
1984 300TD manual sunroof. (Electrical Gremlins)

I own a couple of iphones too, but they're not cheap (it's about a $2000, two year commitment for each device).

I'm not a fan of the Iphone, It's small for my big fat fingers, it's a magnet to get stolen, I'd prolly wind up loosing the thing, I like my Blackberry Storm, but it's screen is small, and it's hard to get the forums to show up right on it.

__________________
hum.....
1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

My daughter has a blackberry curve, it seems to work well but I don't like the interface as well as the iphone. She likes to have a physical keyboard, I like touch-screens. I also like the iphone because it plays nicely with my macs.

Ebay

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=laptop&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=

If it's a cheapo laptop 200-300$ will get you a nice little laptop that can surf the internet and listen to some music.

I wouldn't get a netbook. Just get a used laptop from ebay for the time being.

I have an old white box Asus laptop with a Pentium M 1.5 ghz machine with 1gb of ram. I had the power settings set up in such a way that I could weasel out 5-6 hours of battery life It had a 14 in 1024x768 screen if i recall correctly.

My macbook pro just barely inches out 3 hours

__________________
-Typos courtesy of my mobile phone.