Thanks from the research i did it seems like the samsung n148 is pretty good, it has a dalylight viewing option, which i think is quite a good thing. second it has more hard disk third from all the reviews its seems to be linux comfortable (samsung used to offer linux net/note books but have dropped them since) and most reviews are favorable have not been able to gather much about the Asus will see what is available and let the list know what happens ram <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Narendra Diwate <<a href="mailto:narendra.diwate@gmail.com">narendra.diwate@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Had helped a friend buy a Asus Netbook 1.5 years back. He uses XP , so no experience with Linux on that. I too believe an Asus or Lenovo would be best. However my friend complained that the battery on his Anus conked recently. Conked as in doesn't work at all. Only works when plugged in to a power source. Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </blockquote></div>