With more and more netbooks being announced or released almost on a daily basis, it’s surprising to see some netbooks go over $400 when similar speced machines go for less. If you want to keep your netbook cheap and portable, Liliputing have put together a list of 19 netbooks which all fall under $350 and come with a 9 inch display or 10 inch. The Asus Eee PC 1000HA, Lenovo IdeaPad S10, Acer Aspire One D150 and MSI Wind U100 are all available for $349. The MSI Wind U100 is also available for $299 and comes with a 3 cell battery. The $349.99 U100 comes with a 6 cell battery and in pink. Likewise the MSI Wind U120 comes in under $350 with a price tag of $319.99 and a 6 cell battery.

The HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition is available in a 10 inch or 8.9 inch model, priced at $279.99 for the 8.9 inch and an additional $40 to upgrade to a 10 inch display. The standard HP Mini 1000 comes in at just under $300, priced at $298.97, along with the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 ($299) and the Asus Eee PC 900HA ($293.99). The upgraded 904HA is available for $15 more at $308.40 bringing with it a larger keyboard like you’d find on a 10 inch model. The Acer Aspire One with a 160GB hard drive teeters on the $300 mark with a 3 cell battery, but a 6 cell battery model will add an extra $30 to the price tag. Where as the 8GB SSD version with Linux will set you back $273.28. Interestingly, the XP model is cheaper at $239.

Other 9 inch netbooks noted in the list include the Dell Inspiron Mini 9n ($249), refurbished Eee PC 900s which sell for $180 and the Eee PC 901 ($279.99).

If you’re still looking for a nice little netbook to purchase and couldn’t decide which to get from the plethora of netbook choices that you have, these two netbook reviews might help you decide.

The first one is CrunchGear’s review of the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition. This is one of the my choices when I was planning to get a new netbook. The HP Mini 1000 Mi edition runs the Ubuntu Mi OS and costs around $479.99.

CG declares that the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition is a great little machine with its OS as a primary selling factor because it is simple to use and straight forward. For its bad side,  the HP Mini 1000 Mi edition despite having the limited OS still cost higher than its XP version.

Check out CrunchGear’s blow by blow account of the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition review here. 

The other review that we mentioned is Laptopmag’s review of the Emtec Gidium Liberty 1000 netbook. Like the HP Mini 1000 Mi, the Gdium Liberty 1000 does not sport the standard Windows XP OS, but has a Linux flavor for its OS instead. It also doesn’t have the usual Intel Atom processor but rather a  MIPS processor and a 16GB Flash drive which is called the G-Key.

Laptopmag points out to the fact that by straying away from the usual specs and standards of netbooks, the Gdium Liberty 1000 netbook suffered from slow performance and short battery life.

Check out Laptopmag’s full review here.