With over a dozen netbook brands available in the Philippines today, it’s pretty harder to pick a model compared to a year ago. It’s good though — the more, the better — competition drives innovation up and prices down.
This time, our poll asks — Who is the best netbook-maker?
From my count, we got at least 15 brands currently selling locally:
- Acer
- Astone
- Asus
- Dell
- Gateway
- Gigabyte
- HP
- Lenovo
- Minix
- MSI
- Neo
- Red Fox
- Sony
- Toshiba
- Qube
The label ‘best’ is subjective and it could mean ‘best designed’, ‘best bang for the buck’, or ‘best performance’ so let’s just settle for ‘best-overall’. As usual, I’ve added the poll on the sidebar so you can send in your votes.
Note: Didn’t include LG and Samsung (and others) since they haven’t officially released their own netbooks in the Philippines.
To cont its only asus (here in Pinas) that offer 2years warranty w/o additional fee for notebooks and certain high end netbook like NJ10. Its very clear that they really trust there product. No company will offer 2years warranty if it will just broke after a year. In Hp and other laptop makers, again you have to buy the so called extension warranty card w/c cost around 8k as i remember. It would be nice if HP, Acer and other big brands will offer competitive warranty as Asus
i want to buy MSI laptop but my budget is around 25k only. any suggestions? pls help
“PS: Buy an hp notebook and soon you’ll be goin back to hp for repair.”
You’ve definitely hit the mark. Except going back for repair, their quotation for repair are so expensive that it is better to buy new notebook. I was planning to buy HP mini 2140 for netbook because I’m using HP pavilion as notebook but I ended up with buying Toshiba UX cause HP after sales services sucks
asus syempre number one
http://www.netbookreviews.com/7-best-netbooks-for-under-300/
best netbook for almost five months.
When I decided to acquire a netbook, I browsed the internet for reviews. My choices boiled down to 3 brands – asus, lenovo and toshiba.
Toshiba for me is the most stylish and I like the chicklet keyboard and the blue and silver model is very nice. Unfortunately, it costs about 5-6k more than asus which I think is quite expensive for a netbook.
As for Lenovo s10-2, I have the protruding battery at the back.
I finally decided on the Asus 1005HA Seashell white and I find it very very good, especially the battery life.
I’m eagerly waiting for the Asus 1005PE to be launched in the Philippines.
I’d go for ASUS. But if I have the money, I’d go for TOSHIBA in an instant.
MSI for me is the best! MSI Wind U230x user here.
no.1 ASUS!!!
i love my asus ul80. . .
I like HP Mini
for me the best is MSI. the price and the specs ok.
i think samsung
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