help buying a net book

huxley40

i wonder if anyone can advise me i want to buy my daughter a net book for xmas my budget is about £200 she would only use it for msn and facebook.i have seen one on tesco direct its a asus eeepc 904hd 1gb/8gb idon,t understand what the 1gb/8gb means.thank you for any help!!

superscaper

"1 GB" RAM, "8 GB" hard drive (presumably solid state disk with it being so small).

superscaper

Although having looked are you sure you've got your figures right? Both the 904HDs on the site have an "80 GB" hard drive and the 900A has the "8 GB" hard drive.

huxley40

sorry my mistake

epz_2

if i recall £200 will get you an acer one with 1 gig of ram and 120gig hard disk, probably more useful if it to be their main pc

Stompa

It's worth noting that the 900A comes with linux rather than Windows.

huxley40

she has a desktop as main computer is th first number always ram and the second one disk space?

superscaper

huxley40 wrote: »

she has a desktop as main computer is th first number always ram and the second one disk space?

No, it's simply just the obvious difference in the numbers. It'd be an extremely bizarre setup to have a computer with more RAM than hard disc space.

huxley40

hi stompa is that a good or bad thing?sorry i know nothing about computers

mrscruffy

huxley40 wrote: »

hi stompa is that a good or bad thing?sorry i know nothing about computers

It is equivalent to the difference between a car with a petrol engine and one with a diesel engine. As with this analogy different people prefer one to the other. Neither is wrong or "better" just more appropriate in different situations.

As you said you don't know the difference between linux and windows I would suggest you find a local retailer and try them out. I think Dixons have Acer laptops on display - Just don't believe anything the sales assisstant telles you - And don't buy one from there :-)

Stompa

huxley40 wrote: »

hi stompa is that a good or bad thing?sorry i know nothing about computers

Well it's an entirely different operating system. If you're already familiar with Windows then you might prefer to stick with that.