What Netbook?
cat_with_no_tail
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As I'm lashing buckets of cash at the bike, I thought it only fair to treat the missus a little bit too.
She's currently running some old PoS Acer laptop which is on its last legs.
She only uses it for shopping, facebook, emails and that sort of stuff, maybe the occasional DVD (hardly ever) and storing photos.
So I thought a Netbook would be more use than a full-on laptop. Problem is, I know absolutely naff all about this sort of stuff.
Can someone who knows of this kind of stuff point me in the direction of a good value one? Looking to spend as little as possible cos I'm tight, but don't want a heap of crap either.
Oh, and it needs to be from somewhere that delivers too due to where we live.
Cheers.
She's currently running some old PoS Acer laptop which is on its last legs.
She only uses it for shopping, facebook, emails and that sort of stuff, maybe the occasional DVD (hardly ever) and storing photos.
So I thought a Netbook would be more use than a full-on laptop. Problem is, I know absolutely naff all about this sort of stuff.
Can someone who knows of this kind of stuff point me in the direction of a good value one? Looking to spend as little as possible cos I'm tight, but don't want a heap of crap either.
Oh, and it needs to be from somewhere that delivers too due to where we live.
Cheers.
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I have got a Dell Inspiron Mini 1011 that I bought a few weeks ago for working from home and generally mucking about on the net.
It came with windows7 Starter and is very responsive, which suprised me for the lack of hardware (must be Win7 doing it's job loverly) and you can't go wrong for £250
If you have any questions let me know and I will happily answer 'um for ya.0 -
I've heard good things about the Nokia Book 3G, but I don't know if you can buy that in the UK/let it with a phone contract.
My sister has a Samsung netbook, and the battery life is good.
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Ive got a Samsung N130 - it was a Christmas pressie, so don't know how much it cost. Came with XP and various other stuffs pre-loaded. It's good for forums and social networking, but the screen's not that good a quality for watching movies. That said, it doesn't have a DVD/CD drive, so anything I watch has to been downloaded. Battery life is pretty good.0
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The Nokia is Waaaay more that I was wanting to spend. I've already married her, no need to spend any more than absolutely necessary now
Looking at the Dell and the Samsung, I think the Samsung is currently coming out top. Looks to have almost identical spec, but much more storage. Samsung comes with XP, not 7, but that's not a massive deal breaker, she's used to using XP anyway.0 -
What I love about Netbooks is the fact they have SD card readers built in and the battery life is awesome too. I've owned two so far
I bought the Toshiba NB100 in October last year and the keys were way to small for my fingers
Also some chump in Toshiba's design team decided to screen the letters in blue so unless you had a kazillion candlelight of power you couldn't see the keys in artificial light. I gave it away to a lady friend who has tiny little hands and she loves it
El Capitano
+1 of the N130. I bought one to take on holiday with me in December. It was everything the NB100 wasn't, although both being i-Atom based what's under the lid is almost identical
The keys are standard laptop sized, screened in white letters and the display is a little bigger
The only "issue" with the N130 was that it didn't have Bluetooth, but I solved that by buying a USB Micro USB radio for a whopping £0.88 on Ebay.
I also bought a slimline Teac DVD RW USB2 optical drive for it for a whole £17 on FleaBay too.
Lastly Samsung offer a 3 Year world wide warranty which was very important to me as my son who lives abroad fell in love with the N130 and was using it to talk to his girlfriend (who was on vacation elsewhere) via Skype tethering to his Mobile phone when we were in the "sticks" where there was no conventional Internet connections
Being the sap that I am, I gave it to him in January before flying home
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As much as i hate Sony, that Vaio is actually a very good deal, the screen res is impressive for the size of screen and the price is more than reasonable.
I would prefer it with windows7 though, as XP might crawl compared. I am a complete windows7 convert at the moment since buying this Dell netbook, just can't get over the speed of it.0 -
XP still has less overhead than 7 and flies on a netbook. that said, 7 is obviously the future and half an eye was kept on netbook trends during development. If it were me I'd go 7 buying a new netbook.
Actually I went xubuntu on the samsung and ended up selling it. but if i buy a Windows netbook again it'll have 7 on it.0 -
blister pus wrote:XP still has less overhead than 7 and flies on a netbook.
By overhead do you mean memory usage etc. or disk space? Win7 on this netbook only uses 250mb with IE, antivirus, live messenger and steam chat running. What impressed me most is that I've had it using 90% resources (not CPU) and it still manages to be just as responsive :shock:
I am such a Windows7 fanboy :? where's that copy of Kubuntu gone?
apologies for hijacking the thread CWNT :oops:0 -
hmm well watching dvd's is out unless you add an external drive. Personally I wouldn't want a 10" screen as my only pc/laptop. I would say you are better getting a conventional laptop, cant recommend one though.Banned from singletrack forum again :-)0
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Kiblams wrote:blister pus wrote:XP still has less overhead than 7 and flies on a netbook.
By overhead do you mean memory usage etc. or disk space? Win7 on this netbook only uses 250mb with IE, antivirus, live messenger and steam chat running. What impressed me most is that I've had it using 90% resources (not CPU) and it still manages to be just as responsive :shock:
I am such a Windows7 fanboy :? where's that copy of Kubuntu gone?
apologies for hijacking the thread CWNT :oops:
Both but neither can match up to xubuntu on that score. 7 is rightly the proper successor to XP though, you're not being a fanboi there too much, it's justified (in a windows world comparison kind of way, I'm not keen on the continual dumbing down of things but it's horses for courses in windows world, look at the 'Live' crap).
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TBH I detest W7's home networking methodology. It's tedious and somewhat frustrating0
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I've got an Acer Aspire 110 (15 month old now)
Its been faultless and flys running Crunchbang linux. It does everything I need it too.0 -
Kiblams wrote:apologies for hijacking the thread CWNT :oops:
No worries.
It's funny, I'm seeing all the words, but they dont seem to be making sentences
I'm proper useless when it comes to specs on computers and stuff, I can use them well enough, but dont understand all the jargon.
That Sony looks good, but it says it's only in store at sainsburys. As it'd cost me around £300 to even get to a Sainsburys, I think thats pretty much out of the question.0 -
I'm getting one of these soon : http://direct.asda.com/Samsung-NC10-Netbook/000587543,default,pd.html Seems good for the monies.0
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If you wanted one, you could get someone on the mainland to buy one and post it to you I'd have thought?Cat With No Tail wrote:That Sony looks good, but it says it's only in store at sainsburys. As it'd cost me around £300 to even get to a Sainsburys, I think thats pretty much out of the question.0 -
whyamihere wrote:
If you wanted one, you could get someone on the mainland to buy one and post it to you I'd have thought?Cat With No Tail wrote:That Sony looks good, but it says it's only in store at sainsburys. As it'd cost me around £300 to even get to a Sainsburys, I think thats pretty much out of the question.
Unfortunately, I'm not really in touch with anyone in the UK any more, and all my family are either here or overseas.
What's the difference between the NC10 Tolk linked and the N130 that El Cap suggested? As far as I can see, they're the exact same thing :?0 -
Take a look at the Asus Eee 1201N or the 1101HA.0
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Cat With No Tail wrote:What's the difference between the NC10 Tolk linked and the N130 that El Cap suggested? As far as I can see, they're the exact same thing :?
Graphics mainly. GMA 950 being a step ahead.0 -
Update:
Thanks for all the help with this. Went for the Samsung N130 in the end.
Got a brilliant deal on a brand new, unopened one off Ebay for £200.
Arrived today, set it all up and it's pretty good. Not my cup of tea (keyboard is too small for me), but the wife loves it.0
