ASUS laptop in Morrisons £199

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spaceraiders wrote: »

I've got an eee 901 and it's the best thing I've bought in ages.

- it's light
- it's compact
- the battery lasts 6 hours
- it's fast enough for all internet, office, email etc. stuff. You only need more power if you want to play the latest games or do things like video editing. I'd recommend Linux if you don't mind learning new software; it's free and runs vastly better on lower hardware than Windows.
- it has no moving parts except for a small fan so it's really quiet and very durable.
- there's very little reason to need an optical drive nowadays. It's a much better trade-off to have a smaller laptop than having to carry around the CD drive all the time. If you find you really need one, just buy a usb CD drive for £40 later. It's useful if the drive breaks on your desktop PC too.

I just don't understand people that think buying a laptop with a 17-inch screen, weighing 3kg, 2 hours battery life etc. is a good idea just because it's got the latest fast CPU, graphics card and memory. They're not portable (heavy and bulky), they run noisy and hot, and they have terrible battery life. Very very few people need that kind of power on their computer unless you're doing graphics editing, video editing or number crunching.

I've got a 17" laptop, and it's rubbish. Can take 10 minutes to load XP up with all the programs that run in the background, and the battery life is about 50 minutes.
I'm seriously thinking of getting a 901 or possibly the 1000 (the one with the SSD drive) as they're perfect for what they were created for, browsing the web.
The 900 in Morrisons isn't really a good deal, cheaper elsewhere and the battery life isn't that good.