<p>Re: e-books
I’ve purchased my textbooks online the last several semester either used or international edition and have managed to get them not only for less than the cost of the book new, but less than the cost of an e-book. They’re certainly convenient, but if you do your shopping right then e-books aren’t cheaper (unless your torrenting PDFs).</p>
<p>I think it is safe to assume that everyone who complains about netbooks not being able to run basic programs was using Windows as the Operating System? There is your problem…</p>
<p>^Not true at all.</p>
<p>^ Uninformed. Try netbook editions of linux, suddenly you will agree with me.</p>
<p>yeah, I’ve actually used a couple linux distros on some netbooks and they work pretty well. I don’t have any experience though with windows 7 starter so I’m not sure if it would be any better or not. Though not feature rich, its supposedly fine tuned for netbook usage so it could be a better OS than some of the linux stuff. I can say, however, that ubuntu netbook remix is great and I’ve also used Jolicloud on an asus netbook. They both performed well and jolicloud actually got me close to 10 hours of battery with light usage. This was its earlier beta edition though, so i’m not sure how Jolicloud 1.0 acts.</p>