Which netbook should I go for?

JVRMac

I've just used my Tesco rewards to use against buying my son a netbook for christmas and have managed to narrow my choices down to the below models:-

HP mini 210-1020 netbook (intel atom N450, 1GB, 160 GB, 10.1" screen Windows starter 7)

Acer Aspire One 532 (Intel Atom N270, 1GB, 250GB, 10.1" screen Windows 7 starter

Any advice on which one I should go for, read the reviews on revoo and both seemed pretty good?

rodenal

I would personally strongly advise a cheap latpop rather than any netbook, they are a very limited bit of kit tbh.

penrhyn

I concur, did you know that netbooks don't have optical drives?
If its just for emails and friendface I suppose it would do though.

JVRMac

My son is only 8, so at this moment in time I don't want to buy him an expensive laptop, even the cheap one's are an expensive bit of kit for an 8 year old.

With the Tesco vouchers offer, it brings the price of both of these netbooks in to an affordable cost, but I couldn't decide which of the two was the better model.

My son spends his time on the school VLE, doing his homework and watching cartoons on youtube and would like to plug his MP3 player and camera in as well.

Raksha

I have a Dell which I use every day. the lack of Optical drives needn;'t be a problem with the use of USB memory sticks.

I would avoid the Acer though - I've had two Acer laptops and an Acer netbook and they've all developed faults within a year or so.

debitcardmayhem

rodenal wrote: »

I would personally strongly advise a cheap latpop rather than any netbook, they are a very limited bit of kit tbh.

"Limited Piece of Kit Tbh" ? pants, using mine in the ether (wireless n, bluetooth) to reply. It copes with photo editing on holiday using GIMP, Videos/Music (with headphones for everyone else's sake). If in a hurry I use Ubuntu (it's dual boot), Win 7 starter is ok (without the aero obviously ...so what, I can live without that as I do at home on my quad core Dell) Show the OP a reason for not buying 1 for an 8 year old, I'm 59 and they have a purpose. Plus even an 8YO can carry a netbook.

23n1th

I'd go for the HP only due to the newer hardware and it being cheaper. Theres nothing wrong with acers, had an acer laptop for the last 2yrs no problems.

debitcardmayhem

23n1th wrote: »

I'd go for the HP only due to the newer hardware and it being cheaper. Theres nothing wrong with acers, had an acer laptop for the last 2yrs no problems.

Concur with 23n , the Acer has a larger disk, but the overall spec for the HP is slightly better.