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I have an older Samsung netbook and haven't looked at the market lately. Does your netbook do 1024x768 natively?

The Samsung I have will do it, but it is weird ... like bitmapped, which makes it unusable.

If yours does, can you share the model you bought? Thanks!



It's an ASUS eeePC 1015PEM. Unfortunately I don't think they sell them anymore. They've since upgraded the processor to an 1.66GHz N550 which performs better on youtube, but I've heard it gets 25% less battery life.

Display is 1024 x 600 non-glossy.


I have a similarly pleased experience with my Asus 1215N (1366×768 screen), which I got for around $300 new (good bargain).

It has basically two drawbacks for me: battery life isn't amazing (roughly 4 hours of active use), and I'm sure a dedicated reader would be better for reading high-res PDFs.

Oh well, I can write code in vim on my eeePC, and you can't say that about an iPad.




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