Fujitsu computers are one of the top rated computer brands out there, not as known as other brands but they definitely make quality computers. Business people know this as well.

They are well known in other countries. They used to make great netbooks, before the term was coined but they were super expensive.

Great netbooks were called Ultraportables, before the term netbook was coined. Ultraportables were considered the ideal laptop in terms of portability, which was something that costed lots of money. It's a good thing netbooks came around, and brought portability to the masses. A recent post got me looking into CPU benchmarks. Ironically, an Atom processor has about the capabilities of a PIII-M, which is worse than the P-M which have come and gone. Thus, it is worth considering nabbing yourself an ultraportable from ebay. Models which I have seen, and consider to be pretty good: Dell Latitude X300, IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X60/X61, Toshiba Portege R200/R205, aside from those Fujitsus. Things to note: netbooks generally have better battery life, especially against laptops which have aged, because laptop batteries have a limited lifetime, and degrade with the years. The performance gap in CPU can be easily made up with more memory, giving netbooks the advantage, as most older laptops do not have more than a Gig of memory. In comparison, I believe netbooks have at least 1 Gig, with it being easy to extend it further. The option of adding memory to an older laptop is harder, as DDR memory is a lot more expensive than DDR2, and don't go up as far up in capacity. Finally older hard drives found in older laptops are both smaller in capacity, and more power-hungry, in general. In addition, a used laptop may mean that the hard drive is not reliable, as nobody knows what abuse the laptop has gone through in the past. It is surprising how little shock laptop hard drives can take. But, on this last point, I would invest in a SSD, and swap out the hard drive, which is also a hard task, if you've never opened a laptop before. Ultraportables can be pretty tricky to crack open, and I don't think you would want to brute force it, and risk breaking something. ... [Truncated]

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I am looking to buy a netbook for my daughter who will be heading to college in the fall. Can someone give me some direction on a quality brand/model etc. There are too many out there and I need some direction. Thanks.

Tigers,
Get an HP 311 with ION chip that is the best out there right now in netbooks.

Tigers,
A couple of my friends have the Asus EEE (1000). From my observation, the build quality on those machines are solid.