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[davethediver]

Mrs wants a little netbook for taking to work and uni, will only use it for browsing and storing photo's on so doesn't need to be hugely powerful.

Anybody know anything about them, I'm not massively IT literate

Looking at a budget of around 200-250 or less if i can find the right product oh and preferably PINK if possible.

Anybody any suggestions :question

TIA Dave

[Plomien]

just had an email from comet as the have a big laptop sale on
http://www.comet.co.uk/sh"My Naff Code Reader"et/search.do?n=0&searchTerm=laptopclear&cm_mmc=Email-_-email15thoctober-_-shopnow-_-shopnow

[cem_devecioglu]

new models are quite fast and capable.. well equipped and even can handle excessive work..

personally I would go after known brands like Hp or samsung..

http://www.cheap-netbooks.org.uk/

ps: I see pink notebooks mostly from acer or sony which are quite expensive..

[Kevin Wood]

I have an Acer aspire one pro 531. About 9 months old and hasn't missed a beat.

Kevin

[feeutfo]

I pad, quicker than greased poop, 10hour battery, starts up in 2 seconds...... if you can stand the flash issue, and price it has to be said.

She has a lap top and never uses it now, I can't get on my own iPad.

[TheBoy]

I was toying with one a few weeks ago, though decided against it

CQ10-101 was around £175 from Ebuyer - normal kind of spec for netbook, Atom, 1Gb, 160Gb HDD etc.


Be warned, all netbooks will struggle to last due to poor processor (Atom), and bare in mind Microsoft are now starting to, at last, pull the rug out from underneath XP

[cem_devecioglu]

I was toying with one a few weeks ago, though decided against it

CQ10-101 was around £175 from Ebuyer - normal kind of spec for netbook, Atom, 1Gb, 160Gb HDD etc.


Be warned, all netbooks will struggle to last due to poor processor (Atom), and bare in mind Microsoft are now starting to, at last, pull the rug out from underneath XP

yep.. they are trying to stop it.. but I doubt they can.. if not millions at least thousands of programmers still support it.. 

[TheBoy]

I was toying with one a few weeks ago, though decided against it

CQ10-101 was around £175 from Ebuyer - normal kind of spec for netbook, Atom, 1Gb, 160Gb HDD etc.


Be warned, all netbooks will struggle to last due to poor processor (Atom), and bare in mind Microsoft are now starting to, at last, pull the rug out from underneath XP

yep.. they are trying to stop it.. but I doubt they can.. if not millions at least thousands of programmers still support it.. 

Oh, they can - and they are ramping it up. The key is to make the end users change, then the developers have to follow.

How do they make end users update? Start giving notice that popular services that need a client on the end user PC only support Vista+

Make MSN Vista+ only, problem solved 


I've noticed an increasing amount of newer hardware seems to be devoid of XP drivers

[Teebee]

TB is correct, possibly one of the biggest accelerants to XP's death is something most people are blissfully unaware of, approx 2-3 weeks ago Dell removed the XP downgrade option to their business machines.

That's the death knell ringing.

[cem_devecioglu]

I was toying with one a few weeks ago, though decided against it

CQ10-101 was around £175 from Ebuyer - normal kind of spec for netbook, Atom, 1Gb, 160Gb HDD etc.


Be warned, all netbooks will struggle to last due to poor processor (Atom), and bare in mind Microsoft are now starting to, at last, pull the rug out from underneath XP

yep.. they are trying to stop it.. but I doubt they can.. if not millions at least thousands of programmers still support it.. 

Oh, they can - and they are ramping it up. The key is to make the end users change, then the developers have to follow.

How do they make end users update? Start giving notice that popular services that need a client on the end user PC only support Vista+

Make MSN Vista+ only, problem solved 


I've noticed an increasing amount of newer hardware seems to be devoid of XP drivers

sure microsoft will write software that wont work with xp from now on.. but still there are millions of machines working on xp which also hardware vendors cant ignore..sooner or later it will die.. but at least 4-5 years must pass..here still xp machines are sold..

[unclelicklug]

Been very pleased with my Samsung NC10, also available in pink.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-10-2-inch-Netbook-1-6GHz-Windows/dp/B001Q9EKS2

Price is about right but might be worth checking for newer versions of this model which will probably come with Windows 7 (the NC10 has been out a while and ships with Windows XP).

Same machine but with different badges and a very good price turns up in the Aldi special offers now and again.

[Kevin Wood]

Be warned, all netbooks will struggle to last due to poor processor (Atom), and bare in mind Microsoft are now starting to, at last, pull the rug out from underneath XP

They'll struggle to run Windows but they were never intended for that in the first place.

Anyway, I'm still developing for platforms that run Windows 2000. I wonder if they'll just skip XP and Vispa?

Probably not. I get the feeling XP embedded will be next.

Kevin

EDIT: Vispa = Vista. You can tell how much I've been calling our dreaded work ISP recently.

[tunnie]

Skipping Vista, Windows 7 runs nicely on low spec kit, certainly does most jobs. Most big corporates still run XP, not looking forward to getting the bespoke apps i have to use running on 7!

[zirk]

I bought a Samsung NC10 Netbook last Xmas for my Far East trip, loaded it with Win 7 Utimate, 2gb Ram then spent ages upgraded all the Samsung updates for Win 7, works really well for a little Atom processor, Battery life is excellent.

Chris. 

[cem_devecioglu]

Skipping Vista, Windows 7 runs nicely on low spec kit, certainly does most jobs. Most big corporates still run XP, not looking forward to getting the bespoke apps i have to use running on 7!

Fact!!   and they are not planning to invest high sums on win 7 now :-/