no, not yet! netbooks can cost between 400 and 500 swiss francs (hp mini 110c, asus eeepc 1005ha, lenovo s10e, acer aspire one, to name a few!) and it's hard to find a no too old macbook for that price. a 1.83 or 2.0 ghz one sells for 700-800 francs. alexandre On Jan 29, 2010, at 02:45 , Zane H. Healy wrote: > At 11:14 PM +0100 1/28/10, alexandre wrote: >> that's exactly my problem here. i need a cheap(-ish), light laptop to take on my photo trips for simple editing and keywording in lightroom. i'm looking at some cheap netbooks but i can't get myself to support and troubleshoot a windows machineŠ my solution: a second hand macbook > > Can you even find a second hand macbook as cheap as a new low-end Windows Laptop? That has been my problem when looking at that solution. > > Zane > > > > -- > | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | > | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | > | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | > +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ > | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | > | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | > | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal