cheap mini laptops??
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Topic: cheap mini laptops??
Posted By: tomschute
Subject: cheap mini laptops??
Date Posted: 25 September 2009 at 8:50pm
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what's peoples opinions on these... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mini-Laptop-Notebook-1-6G-2GB-160GB-Wifi-Webcam-10-2_W0QQitemZ250504056936QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLaptops_Nov05?hash=item3a53349068&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mini-Laptop-Notebook-1-6G-2GB-160GB-Wifi-Webcam-10-2_W0QQitemZ250504056936QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLaptops_Nov05?hash=item3a53349068&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 seem a bargain - for that money you'd only usually get 1gig ram a small screen and not that much HD space. Whats the comprimise - or is it a case of mass production - everyones selling them but can't find any reports. ------------- Out to lunch... stableaudio@hotmail.co.uk www.stableaudio.co.uk Speaker Building Services |
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Posted By: djshaney
Date Posted: 25 September 2009 at 11:21pm
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im afraid iv never used one so cant really say, but personally (even though it may only be a different badge) id go for the acer ersion (available cheapest from tesco's of all places) but only 'cos if you ever need drivers or customer support, theyre so much easier to find.
i have an advent laptop, its taken me the last 9 months to get it back working again, bcos they dont have a decicated site for drivers, etc...
just my 2p, hope it helps..
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Posted By: djstefanos
Date Posted: 26 September 2009 at 4:40am
http://www.adoosea.com -
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laptops for 100-200 euros cdj 1000's for 370 euros enjoy everyone
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Posted By: JaKe
Date Posted: 26 September 2009 at 10:33am
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Something like this? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IBM-Thinkpad-X40-Laptop-Computer_W0QQitemZ320426424669QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Laptops_EH?hash=item4a9ae7395d&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 |
Posted By: ukdubwise
Date Posted: 26 September 2009 at 1:46pm
Did u bought anything from this site?
Some prices looks very odd, i mean way 2 much difference from the retail prices.
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djstefanos wrote:Posted By: djstefanos
Date Posted: 26 September 2009 at 3:50pm
a friend of mine bought an ipod touch and it arrived well. no complaints. i personally havent ordered anything yet, but i might.
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Posted By: djsam3000
Date Posted: 27 September 2009 at 10:34pm
| please done use that website, all the details are similiar to a scam i fell for naminly redshop.biz or something like that. all of the same sort of products and uses the same method of dragging you in by showing you tracking numbers, i stupidly fell for this scam. save yourself the money, you wont be able to claim back as they are in china, trust me i tried hard |
Posted By: crystal.a
Date Posted: 29 September 2009 at 3:59pm
| so has anyone else used this actual site it does seem to good to be true? |
Posted By: tomschute
Date Posted: 29 September 2009 at 4:18pm
does seem too good to be true. I done a net trawl for them but can't find anything 
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Posted By: yasint
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 10:13am
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Posted By: mikey bear
Date Posted: 10 November 2009 at 12:04am
did you get a mini laptop in the end? i'm looking to get one for a gift and could do with some suggestions |
Posted By: rinse
Date Posted: 11 December 2009 at 12:23pm
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Get an NC10 or NC20. Simple.
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Posted By: jbrown
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 9:48pm
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Looks interesting...did you get the laptops in the end? |
Posted By: abbotsmike
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 11:39pm
| get an n110. im biased because i have one |
Posted By: Disco Stu
Date Posted: 07 January 2010 at 3:41pm
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I went to a computer shop I trust to ask more or less this question the other day and their answer was unless you just want it for browsing and not a lot else you would be better off with something else as the performance is pretty terrible. Their advice was to get a 12" standard laptop (no Atom processors) with sensible specs and it will be better in the long run and have better resale value. Stu
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Posted By: adambomb
Date Posted: 07 January 2010 at 7:39pm
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Well they are called "net" books for a reason... they are designed for web browsing (which nowadays is about 80% of the use of most home pcs).
Actually they are not 'that' bad at other things, I have open office, winamp, vlc, artweaver (free lightweight photoshop clone), smaart, easera and a bunch of other stuff on mine.... (Dell Mini 9, Atom 1.6ghz, 1gb RAM).
Sometimes it has a little pause for thought, but it's more than usable for most tasks... and a bloomin bargain at £200 or whatever it cost me (I bet you lose more than that over 3 years on a decent 12" laptop!).
The only thing that limits its use really is the fact thats its so small and has no internal cd drive (but who the hell uses optical media any more, right?
 - everything is downloadable or storable online).Great for travelling with, and with a solid state hard drive.. pretty damn robust too.
It feels like such a palava getting my "big" laptop out compared to this mini, it's more like getting a book out... and the battery lasts forever too (about 4-5 hours of web browsing).
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Posted By: tomschute
Date Posted: 07 January 2010 at 7:45pm
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Eventually I've narrowed it down to the samsung q320. Not cheap but the cheapest with acceptable spec for my requirments. It seems you either get great spec and doggy poo graphics card - or good graphics with less spec. Unless you have lots of dollar. And I neeeed a good graphics card. I like the 13.4" screen also, best of both worlds i reckon - a proper pc in a small box that you can still see... plus less to sit on! ------------- Out to lunch... stableaudio@hotmail.co.uk www.stableaudio.co.uk Speaker Building Services |
Posted By: adambomb
Date Posted: 07 January 2010 at 7:49pm
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I have sold 3 of those Samsungs in the last month, nice piece for the money... feel well made too. ------------- http://www.freespeakerplans.com" rel="nofollow - www.freespeakerplans.com |
Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 07 January 2010 at 8:25pm
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I run all my lighting and laser control off an Acer Revo 3600 which is Atom powered and it does a fine job of it with XP and 1GB of RAM. You just need to make sure you understand the limitations of what you're buying. And for £145 it is a bargain ------------- My laser stuff: http://www.facebook.com/SubsonicSystems" rel="nofollow - Frikkin Lasers |
Posted By: abbotsmike
Date Posted: 08 January 2010 at 1:16am
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mine runs most things fine, do plan to drop in some more ram to bring it up to 2gb soon enough though, as it does get a bit laggy. i got it mostly for taking notes in lessons though, and the battery easily lasts me 6-8 hours of moderate usage.
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Posted By: Admin
Date Posted: 08 January 2010 at 12:14pm
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If you are getting an Atom powered netbook/PC/server, then look for one with the Atom N330 processor. It's a dual core processor with hyper-threading (OS sees it as 4 cores) and in tests that I have done it performs as fast, if not faster in some cases, as a 3Ghz Pentium 4. |
Posted By: cravings
Date Posted: 20 April 2010 at 12:39am
| just out of curiosity, would you have bothered if you needed 100 posts? |