Netbook advice please

totalsolutions

If you can remove a plastic cover and a few screws you can reseat the screen connector, (free cost)

Bowling_4_Gold

This would be much, much better if you can stretch.

pendulum

lanavdt wrote: »

Hi all, hoping someone can advise me. Are these netbooks thingy's any good?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-7-Netbook-Laptop-Notebook-WiFi-and-Windows-2GB-/320526964248?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item4aa0e55618

Brilliant if your a 6 year old
I'd class that thing as a toy

sillygoose

I actually had one of these! looked quite neat in white. Died after 3 weeks, hardware failure. On the plus side, mine came loaded with various office type clone software, pdf viewer etc and was quite usable for a bit of work, it connected on thenet OK via wifi, screen was fine and battery lasted a long time. Had a usable simple email client onboard.

However! it runs subset windows CE which is near impossible to find software that will install let alone run (unless you know how to hack the cab files). Browsing websites is agonisingly slow, even Yahoo can take minutes to load (processor lacks power, actual pages were displayed quite well!).
I had hoped to get one of the other browsers running that render the page on the server to solve the problem but they are written for Windows Mobile rather than CE.

Cannot run video smoothly bigger than about half screen size, but did have an application that worked ok to use Youtube as it wont work in the browser.

Windows CE has no support for printers so even though it has USB its impossible to print out.

In the end you cannot cut corners, I am typing this on a fantastic Samsung N130 netbook I got recently that works brilliantly and is worth the £200 or so 10 times over the Ebay cheapy, save your money and buy the real thing.

lanavdt

totalsolutions wrote: »

If you can remove a plastic cover and a few screws you can reseat the screen connector, (free cost)

Thanks for the advice, will give it a bash. If it doesn't work I guess it's off to the library til payday lol.

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

This would be much, much better if you can stretch.

It's pink Thanks, will try totalsolutions suggestion as a stop gap but it's sooo cute :rotfl: roll on pay day. Thanks for taking the time to look for it. Guessing it's going to do the trick?

Donnie

lanavdt wrote: »

Thanks for the advice, will give it a bash. If it doesn't work I guess it's off to the library til payday lol.



It's pink Thanks, will try totalsolutions suggestion as a stop gap but it's sooo cute :rotfl: roll on pay day. Thanks for taking the time to look for it. Guessing it's going to do the trick?

Sold out, but the white version is still available. Otherwise the U100 is there at £144. It has Windows XP instead of Windows 7 Starter and a slightly inferior processor.

Depends on how much you like pink.

lanavdt

Donnie wrote: »

Sold out, but the white version is still available. Otherwise the U100 is there at £144. It has Windows XP instead of Windows 7 Starter and a slightly inferior processor.

Depends on how much you like pink.

I can live without pink, white is nice to lol. Not paid til the end of the month so fingers ccrossed they don't go too quickly. I'm guessing you'd recommend the white one over the pink one?

Donnie

lanavdt wrote: »

I can live without pink, white is nice to lol. Not paid til the end of the month so fingers ccrossed they don't go too quickly. I'm guessing you'd recommend the white one over the pink one?

155 available

lanavdt

Just to checck, what's the difference between windows xp and starter 7?

Donnie

lanavdt wrote: »

Just to checck, what's the difference between windows xp and starter 7?

XP is Windows version 5. Windows 7 is.....