netbook's fine. any brand recommendations?

for 1.5k more, you can get an i3. If you can't go over the budget, get something with AMD's Fusion chipset

AMD's Fusion kicks the Intel Atom+NVidia Ion combo's butt in all fields.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Although I'm not to fond of buying things on the internet and having to do meet-ups. I'm paranoid.

lol the link i gave has a brick-n-mortar shop in gilmore. PCHub is actually one of the better price benchmarks out there

check them out then.

Brand new eMachine. Go to Acenet at GHills. Look for Eloisa. If she's not there, she's at VMall. Drop my name.

isn't eMachine an Acer line? IDK how Acer fares in terms of durability

jmhighdef to the rescue! I will keep that in mind when I buy one. Thanks!