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Tablet or Netbook

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  • contentbomb
    contentbomb Posts: 5 Forumite
    Go with the tablet, most netbooks have poor battery life in my experience.
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    contentbomb wrote: »
    Go with the tablet, most netbooks have poor battery life in my experience.

    Seems that you don't have much experience.....
  • DevCoder
    DevCoder Posts: 3,362 Forumite
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    or sense...
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    I am typing this on a dell netbook now it's running windows 7 starter with 1 meg of ram and runs ok.

    I find it ok for browsing, watching youtube, looking at photos etc. I have Libre office on it and for the odd thing it is ok but slow and I've done the odd bit of photo editing. I certainly wouldn't want it as my only PC but it's great for lying on the sofa and browsing the net.

    We have an ipad which has a better battery life but the netbook has a much bigger hdd and I can store some of my photos on it as well as my other pc and portable hdd (belts and braces)

    No optical drive so no good for watching DVDs.
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    I am typing this on a dell netbook now it's running windows 7 starter with 1 meg of ram and runs ok.

    I find it ok for browsing, watching youtube, looking at photos etc. I have Libre office on it and for the odd thing it is ok but slow and I've done the odd bit of photo editing. I certainly wouldn't want it as my only PC but it's great for lying on the sofa and browsing the net.

    We have an ipad which has a better battery life but the netbook has a much bigger hdd and I can store some of my photos on it as well as my other pc and portable hdd (belts and braces)

    No optical drive so no good for watching DVDs.

    You can probably upgrade to 2GB RAM. Who watches DVDs these days anyway? :) DVD Video quality is just about right for a Netbook's screen resolution, so you can rip them and watch them there for travel.

    For my laptop, I rip my Bluray discs to 720p or (800p)HD to fit with the screen resolution and to preserve space and for my home PC, 1080p(Full HD).
  • ukcarper
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    edited 24 December 2012 at 9:24PM
    NiftyDigits wrote: »
    You can probably upgrade to 2GB RAM. Who watches DVDs these days anyway? :) DVD Video quality is just about right for a Netbook's screen resolution, so you can rip them and watch them there for travel.

    For my laptop, I rip my Bluray discs to 720p or (800p)HD to fit with the screen resolution and to preserve space and for my home PC, 1080p(Full HD).

    THe op said he wanted to watch movies from cd.

    I think you would be surprised how many people watch dvds
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    THe op said he wanted to watch movies from cd.

    I think you would be surprised how many people watch dvds

    That's why I recommended a laptop. Keep up. :)
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    edited 25 December 2012 at 12:05AM
    NiftyDigits wrote: »
    That's why I recommended a laptop. Keep up. :)

    Yes i know i just saying that the netbook would just about be ok for odd bit of office but no good for watching dvds I suppose he could get a usb dvd drive
  • ~Chameleon~
    ~Chameleon~ Posts: 11,956 Forumite
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    GetRealBabe wrote: »
    Hi

    I also have a Samsung NC10. I added 2GB of ram plus it runs Windows 7 and isn't slow. I only use it for when I'm out and about. For general use, I prefer my laptop.

    Another vote here for Samsung NC110, it even has HDMI port to hook up the TV for playing movies :D
    “You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    ~Chameleon~ wrote: »
    Another vote here for Samsung NC110, it even has HDMI port to hook up the TV for playing movies :D

    You need new glasses.
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