http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157608992454223/

I’d say that would be pretty hardcore.

I want to sell my quickly aging 3 year old Dell e1405 and purchase a HP mini 1000… is that a horrible idea? I know it will hold it’s value longer, and my Dell is already too slow for extensive photo editing.

That, and playing old DOS games on Dosbox, but that was mentioned already.

I’ve given PowerPoint presentations, taken notes on the slides, and emailed them (via Lotus Notes) to the participants as I was walking back to my office.

While my small laptop – an OQO 02 – is not normally considered a netbook, the only component that is more powerful than some netbooks is the screen. Oh, and it’s smaller and lighter – about half the size and half the weight of many netbooks.

I use my netbook to update my calendar when I’m not at my desk. It’s an offline calendar called Calgoo Desktop, which offers a sync service that keeps my netbook calendar in sync with my desktop; but if my Net access is unavailable, I’ve still got my calendar. This replaced a Windows Mobile solution that wasn’t really working.

I use my netbooks similar to someone who has a stamp collection uses stamps.. I have bought 9 (with permitations of the same brand) and with 14 umpc’s and 5 mid devices 31 pda’s they form the basis of my “stamp” collection… much to my wife’s dismay!

i don’t do anything out of the ordinary with my netbook. since i don’t have a desktop or a laptop, i do all my personal and work-related tasks on my Gigabyte M912 Tablet Netbook. maybe one thing out of the ordinary i do is scribbling notes on its swiveling touchscreen which most netbooks don’t have.

I have a Kohjinsha SX3 strapped to my leg while flying. With a connected BT GPS, it provides a moving map display in tablet mode and is light enough to be wearable for long periods.

I’ve used both of my EEEs 701 and 1000H for making few commercial ASP.net based websites on the go. I use VS 2005 for that.

I have also done video editing on the 1000H and it is quite adequate for it. 1000H is little heavy to carry around though (1.5kg), but then you are carrying a full-featured netbook with awesome battery life.

And did I mention that I’ve edited office docs in the kitchen? You won’t want to put your big notebook on the kitchen’s slab. Would you?

I use my netbook to impress girls but somehow it doesn’t seem to work too well.

My Aspire One is currently working as a Video Streaming Server with an attached USB DTV key to stream Webcam, Live TV, Recorded TV, Music, … to my iPhone 3G while I’m on the run. This works pretty fine over Edge, 3G and WiFi thanks to the Orb Server installed on the Aspire and the Orb Live client on the iPhone. The Atom processor manage video streaming with no problems. So looks like we can use a netbook even as a server/slingbox (UPS included).
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I purchased a HP 2133 Mini Note back in October, you can read my review on it at my blog:

http://lgponthemove.blogspot.com/

My main use for this HP netbook was to get a full-featured portable multimedia device. I use Cool Edit Pro for audio recording. The stereo line-in jack is great for feeding in an external analog audio source, or I can use the stereo mixer to record off the web. VOB files play back off the 2.5 inch hard drive using WinDVD easily, and the 1280 screen plays back High-Def 720p content beautifully. The standard 2.5 inch drive size means I can get 500GB of storage.

Another vital use for my 2133 mini note is being a mobile communications device. The webcam/mic lets me chat using msn with family/friends/contacts anywhere, I can log on and check emails, surf the web, keep a heads up on my finances and pay all my bills.

It works great to connect with my digital camera in the field, downloading photos and editing them on-site. Likewise, I can connect my camcorder in the field and download video footage to my netbook as it happens.

Once on my netbook, my broadband card allows me to connect to my blog and upload photos/videos to my blog as it happens. The outstanding keyboard on the 2133 mini note allows me to maintain my blog easily and effortlessly any time and from anywhere I may happen to be working.

Finally, I use mt mini note with apps like office, google earth, windows media encoder for audio/video, microsoft streets/trips with GPS, and for when I’m bored, fire up Hoyle Casino for some Blackjack/Poker action.

Connect my portable DVD burner, and I can burn data discs, home videos and music CD’s at home or in the field. With a portable HP printer, even printing documents/photo proofs is doable away from the desk. Likewise, I’ve got an express card eSATA adapter, allowing me to create fast full-system backups to my external RAID hard drive.

As I said in my blog, if a great notebook can replace a desktop, there’s no reason a great netbook cannot replace a notebook.

And for me, the HP 2133 Mini note is exactly that, a great netbook.