JoelP
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| posted on 13/11/10 at 09:54 PM |
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netbook choice
im torn between the samsung n210 and the dell mini. Anyone have any input on these, or suggest a good alternative, or a vendor doing them cheap?!
Cheers!
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austin man
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| posted on 13/11/10 at 10:00 PM |
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got mine with a phone deal, its a HP one Carphonewarehouse may be worth a look if your upgrading your phone
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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RichardK
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| posted on 13/11/10 at 10:30 PM |
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Just bought my lads at work the samsungs and they seem really pleased with them, although I got them through our distributor they wasn't any
cheaper that on amazon or the net.
One of my lads is on here fazerruss ask him for his view.
Cheers
Rich
Gallery updated 11/01/2011
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 13/11/10 at 10:53 PM |
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EeePC Asus are the market leader I believe.
I picked one up from Maplin a while back 1008HA with Win7. £230 so I couldn't be bothered to shop around.
It is great. I am sure the others are fine too.
Matt
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stevebubs
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| posted on 13/11/10 at 11:20 PM |
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Bought a couple of Dell Minis about 6 months ago.
Well happy with them.
*However* if you're going with a Windows 7 model (regardless of make), 2GB of RAM is essential....so if the model you're looking at is
only 1GB, budget another £30 or so to make it useable....
(Paid <£200 for the Dell Mini 1012s from ebuyer)
[Edited on 13/11/10 by stevebubs]
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stevebubs
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| posted on 13/11/10 at 11:21 PM |
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[Edited on 13/11/10 by stevebubs]
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stevebubs
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| posted on 13/11/10 at 11:26 PM |
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Looks like they've gone up a bit in price..
Bought an "open box" Dell 1012 from ebuyer...basically means they've ordered a shedload and opened the boxes to make sure they all
work (supposedly)
This looks similar, but factor in a 2GB upgrade also...
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/home/product/47298/Dell-Netbook-Inspiron-Mini-1012--As-new--open?source=googleps
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Davey D
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| posted on 13/11/10 at 11:33 PM |
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What are you looking for? Low price, Higher performance, or Best quality?
Ive got an Asus EEE 1201n which has dual core Atom 330, Nvidia Ion graphics ( same spec as nvidia 9400m), and 2Gb Ram. It is very nippy. even more so
that i have fitted an Intel SSD drive, but it is about £400 for the laptop with the SSD drive costing another £130ish, so isnt cheap, but you wont
find anything much that small with the same performace for a similar price :-)
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Humbug
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| posted on 14/11/10 at 09:18 AM |
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I bought a
Compaq Mini CQ10 400SA a month or so ago then got a RAM upgrade to 2GB in total. Runs XP so not as memory
hungry as Vista/7. So far it does everything I wanted it for.
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dave r
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| posted on 14/11/10 at 09:33 AM |
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gadget show did a few tests on these a couple of months ago
I'd love to give my imaginary friend a great big hug,
but this jacket makes it impossible.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 14/11/10 at 09:38 AM |
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I am pretty sure most Netbooks are just cases and displays built round a standard motherboard supplied complete by the processor manufacturer.
I have an Acer with a 10.1" screen Intel Atom N270 processor and 1 GB ram 3 cell Li-ion battery --- it runs just fine, battery life
is very good but If I wanted longer between charges much bigger capacity batteries are available on ebay. It is set up to dual boot Xp or Mint
Linux, it runs nicely on Xp but Linux is better. Only reason I still have Xp is to run OBD and LPG diagnostic software. No serial port but USB to
serial convertors work fine on it. Wireless reception is vgood.
I may ditch Xp and just run Xp as a virtual machine in Linux when I upgrade to 2mb memory. Graphic processor isn't really fast enough for
games but that is the price you pay for battery life.
!0.1" screen is a good useful size but still portable.
[Edited on 14/11/10 by britishtrident]
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RazMan
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| posted on 14/11/10 at 11:04 AM |
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I bought my Advent 4213 from PC World (their version of the Asus G10L) and I have to say it is the best value for money netbook I have come across. It
runs Win 7 pro and even all my mapping progs through the usb port. It even has an unlocked HSDPA 3G module inside so you can browse t'interweb
wherever you are.
Also it is worth bearing in mind that these little netbooks really fly with a 2Gb ram upgrade and an SSD.
[Edited on 14-11-10 by RazMan]
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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britishtrident
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| posted on 14/11/10 at 12:01 PM |
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Interestingly in the last few months the number of Netbooks offered with Linux seems to have declined which is a shame because they work best with
Linux.
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stevebubs
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| posted on 14/11/10 at 03:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
I am pretty sure most Netbooks are just cases and displays built round a standard motherboard supplied complete by the processor manufacturer.
I have an Acer with a 10.1" screen Intel Atom N270 processor and 1 GB ram 3 cell Li-ion battery --- it runs just fine, battery life
is very good but If I wanted longer between charges much bigger capacity batteries are available on ebay. It is set up to dual boot Xp or Mint
Linux, it runs nicely on Xp but Linux is better. Only reason I still have Xp is to run OBD and LPG diagnostic software. No serial port but USB to
serial convertors work fine on it. Wireless reception is vgood.
I may ditch Xp and just run Xp as a virtual machine in Linux when I upgrade to 2mb memory. Graphic processor isn't really fast enough for
games but that is the price you pay for battery life.
!0.1" screen is a good useful size but still portable.
[Edited on 14/11/10 by britishtrident]
Around a reference design - yes...but I'd also doubt there are that many different motherboard designs out there...
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craig1410
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| posted on 14/11/10 at 04:18 PM |
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There should be some cheap deals out there in the netbook market since many people are buying iPads instead these days.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 14/11/10 at 04:37 PM |
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Go for a Netbook with one of the CULV processors; they make the whole machine nicer to use than the rather sluggish Atom and you can still get
impressive battery life.
I bought a Dell Inspiron 11z a while back and it's a good machine, though spoiled by the nasty touchpad with integrated buttons. This was fixed
on the later versions that had more conventional separate buttons.
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JoelP
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| posted on 15/11/10 at 09:59 PM |
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cheers for the input guys, gives me something to think about.
Funny thing, worrying about the 'low spec' of netbooks, it seems my desktop one is only 1.8GHz and 1gb ram, so no worse!
That compaq from curries is tempting, especially as they accept Amex so thats 5% cashback 
Im aiming to replace my desktop to free up some space at home, but all i do is browse the internet and do work invoices/emails etc so dont need a high
spec machine. More important is battery life, reliability etc.
[Edited on 15/11/10 by JoelP]
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RazMan
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| posted on 15/11/10 at 11:44 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
Im aiming to replace my desktop to free up some space at home, but all i do is browse the internet and do work invoices/emails etc so dont need a high
spec machine. More important is battery life, reliability etc.
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I would say that a netbook will be frustrating as a desktop replacement due to the screen size. IMO you might be better off looking at something with
a 15" screen and take advantage of the better resolution - that way you still have a reasonably compact lappy but it will do a lot more if
required.
[Edited on 15-11-10 by RazMan]
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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