cjwood23
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| posted on 5/3/12 at 04:44 PM |
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Recommend me a netbook upto £250
Looking to replace my old Toshiba laptop soon as its getting a bit past it and it's quite big!
Already have a decent'ish desktop for home use but looking for something portable.
Don't want to spend a massive amount (no more than £250) as it'll probably wont be used for running anything too fancy - mainly photo
editing, iTunes and some word/excel stuff.
Ideal it'll have a webcam and possibly 3G for Skype but I have a vodafone dongle I could use so no issue - just looks neater without the
dongle.
Will also need to get an external DVD writer but have seen those for £30.
Looked at the ASUS/Samsung ones in Currys/PC World but am a bit confused with the comparison between the Intel Atom and the AMD dual core
processors.
Cheers
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samjc
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| posted on 5/3/12 at 05:02 PM |
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Msi wind in argos are £179
great kit ive not been told of trouble with them the newer ones have hdd2
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Oddified
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| posted on 5/3/12 at 05:13 PM |
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Bought the Asus from pc world a few weeks ago, can't fault it. Runs everything i want and the battery run time is very very good.
The only thing to note with new mini lap tops/netbooks is most come with windows 7 starter, which has several usefull bits missing so like me
you'll probably also need the upgrade to windows 7 home.
Ian
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cjwood23
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| posted on 5/3/12 at 05:14 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Oddified
Bought the Asus from pc world a few weeks ago, can't fault it. Runs everything i want and the battery run time is very very good.
The only thing to note with new mini lap tops/netbooks is most come with windows 7 starter, which has several usefull bits missing so like me
you'll probably also need the upgrade to windows 7 home.
Ian
Cheers for the reply - which one did you get?
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britishtrident
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| posted on 5/3/12 at 05:32 PM |
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Acer
E machines
Asus
all much of a muchness just select based on memory and battery size.
The HP is of course very good but the keyboard isn't to everyone's taste.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 5/3/12 at 05:36 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Oddified
Bought the Asus from pc world a few weeks ago, can't fault it. Runs everything i want and the battery run time is very very good.
The only thing to note with new mini lap tops/netbooks is most come with windows 7 starter, which has several usefull bits missing so like me
you'll probably also need the upgrade to windows 7 home.
Ian
Even better just stick Mint Linux on it as dual boot it runs very well on Atom processor Netbooks. even with only 1mb memory.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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contaminated
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| posted on 5/3/12 at 06:04 PM |
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There's not much difference in any of them to be honest. I bought a Samsung one in PC World at Christmas and it seems fine.
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Andybarbet
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| posted on 5/3/12 at 09:48 PM |
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Ive bought 2 in the last 6 months from currys_pcworld on ebay, they are customer returns that are 'refurbished' paid £125 each for them
including delivery. They also give you a 3 month warranty.
Both 10" Advent Milano's - does me for net surfing, bits & bobs, i too have a desktop thats better but find i dont really use it
anymore.
Its a bit hit or miss as to what they have in stock but it might be worth a look - Ive had no problems with them & my 12 year old abuses his one
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Laptops-Netbooks-/177/i.html?_catref=1&_ipg=&_ssn=currys_pcworld&_trksid=p3911.c0.m1538
It was the only way i could afford to buy 2 netbooks but am really pleased with them.
Good luck 
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Oddified
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| posted on 6/3/12 at 03:12 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by cjwood23
quote:
Originally posted by Oddified
Bought the Asus from pc world a few weeks ago, can't fault it. Runs everything i want and the battery run time is very very good.
The only thing to note with new mini lap tops/netbooks is most come with windows 7 starter, which has several usefull bits missing so like me
you'll probably also need the upgrade to windows 7 home.
Ian
Cheers for the reply - which one did you get?
I got the Asus 1015bx, but as others have posted, there's loads of makes/models which are all similar. I went for that one because it looks
good, does everything i wanted and the keyboard was the nicest to use (just my opinion of course!).
Ian
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cjwood23
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| posted on 9/3/12 at 12:57 PM |
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Thanks for the comments guys.
Will see which one I prefer this weekend.
Thanks again.
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cjwood23
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| posted on 12/3/12 at 04:20 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Oddified
I got the Asus 1015bx, but as others have posted, there's loads of makes/models which are all similar. I went for that one because it looks
good, does everything i wanted and the keyboard was the nicest to use (just my opinion of course!).
Ian
Hi Ian,
Doe this one have 3 USB's and Bluetooth?
Spec on Currys website and Asus websites don't tie up.
Cheers
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