# Good Netbooks

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/good-netbooks/306185>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [March 10, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/good-netbooks/306185 "2010-03-10T22:50:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![shane\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@shane\_c](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shane_c)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/good-netbooks/306185/1 "2010-03-10T22:50:00Z")

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I want to by my ladyfriend a netbook for her birthday, preferably in the $300-$400 range. She’ll pretty much just use it for movies, music, internet surfing, and school stuff, so it doesn’t need to be anything crazy. I basically know what kind of general components it’ll need, but I wanted to check with you guys to see which brands were high/low quality, anything to watch out for, etc.

I also wanted to know if I should be going for Windows 7, or XP. I’m guessing 7 is better, but I wasn’t sure if there were performance issues for netbooks or something.

THANKS FRIENDS