Can anyone give me some advice on netbooks?

Tarja

Samsung NC10. Under £290.

LadyMorticia

Are you sure a laptop wouldn't suffice?

I've owned a Toshiba netbook with an 8.9in screen.
Horrendous...truly horrendous. It's so tiny and some programmes wouldn't run at the highest resolution.

Time2Extend

Hi Hodders

Don;t be put off by the netbook DEpreciation society!

If a netbook is what H wants i.e. small,light, portable machine for surfing, MSN and watching iPlayer etc. then the Samsung is fine.

As macman stated, most netbooks are of a pretty similar spec but have a look at Ebuyer or Dabs. Ebuyer had a nice Compaq for £200 recently but their prices change daily.

Support from the DSG group of shops is not the best (as a search of these forums will indicate). I avoid them personally.

£$&*"($£&(

While a laptop would suffice for home use, you could look at a slightly larger but still very portable 12.1 inch netbook. There's not much choice at present but this Lenovo S12 looks good for £325.

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Lenovo%5FS12%5FNetbook%5Fin%5FBlack%5FM19G3UK/version.asp?PID=1261

m5rcc

...or a second-hand X-series ThinkPad

motorguy

m5rcc wrote: »

...or a second-hand X-series ThinkPad

... because nothing says 'Happy Birthday' like a second hand present. :rolleyes:

motorguy

hodders wrote: »

I need to buy H a netbook for his Birthday, PC World have the Samsung N110 for £329, which is supposed to be good on power but I haven't the faintest idea if the spec is good.

Can anyone give me some advice? Is this the best netbook around for the money? I know H doesn't have much patience when it comes to computers so something that is fairly quick would be handy.

Samsung NC10 available from Amazon for less than £290

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-10-2-inch-Netbook-1-6GHz-Windows/dp/B001GZC8K8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249729018&sr=8-1

prowla

My thoughts are that you should consider what it is to be used for.

Netbooks are aimed at a particular usage profile: easy portable web browsing.

If you will want to do more than that (ie. games, movies, music, word processing, etc.), then it may be more appropriate to go for a general-purpose laptop (with a larger screen).

motorguy

prowla wrote: »

My thoughts are that you should consider what it is to be used for.

Netbooks are aimed at a particular usage profile: easy portable web browsing.

If you will want to do more than that (ie. games, movies, music, word processing, etc.), then it may be more appropriate to go for a general-purpose laptop (with a larger screen).

Having owned various netbooks and laptops, i agree with you fully. No need to limit yourself to a small screen, keyboard, and often low computing power when you dont need to.

John_Gray

Always worth having a look at What Laptop - the website (which is at the link!) will be a month or so out of date, presumably because they want you to buy the magazine.

Ooh look - the mag has "£299 Laptops" on the cover!