What Netbook - Samsung, Sony, Asus, Toshiba, Dell !?!?

[6BMW]

Looking for a netbook for mainly internet useage at home. What would you guys recommend?

Love the look of the Sony Vaio's and Samsungs but would rather get one thats good inside and out

Budget £350

Cheers

[bodhi]

They're all pretty much the same inside to be honest with you, I'd just go for the spec and look that appeals. The Samsungs have been the defacto choice for around a year now, and as you say, the new Vaios are pretty sexy. I'd go with either of those personally - I'd lean towards the Vaio, as I am a dirty Sony we

[Arese]

I agree with Bodhi, I think most of them are much the same. Can you get a Vaio for £300 though?

I bought my sister an Asus EEE PC a while back and she loves it.

How about this?

[6BMW]

yep John Lewis online have a vaio at £299 but its out of stock online.

Someone at works just shown me this:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/FB990B/A?mco=MTA...

BOY am I tempted at that price ! Are these any good?

[Arese]

6BMW said:

yep John Lewis online have a vaio at £299 but its out of stock online.

Someone at works just shown me this:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/FB990B/A?mco=MTA...

BOY am I tempted at that price ! Are these any good?

£765?! Are they over twice as good as the Vaio/Asus/ANOther products? Would you get twice as much use, fun, productivity out of a Macbook as you would with the others? Personally I think you'd be paying for the name, looks, 'kudos' of having a Macbook when something for half the price would do the job.

[6BMW]

I agree with everything you say there mate but a Macs one of those things that you just desire

The Sony Vaio at £300 seems awesome too. Off to John Lewis tonight to have a play around.

Asus seems highly recommended over the net for netbooks too and there are some nice ones on the link you posted.

The Samsung ones seems very good to but surprisingly John Lewis don't sell them.

[working class]

Slightly o/p, does anyone ever do word processing on these things, such as college work etc?

I am considering buying one instead of a laptop, but not sure if this is a wise move?

[mel]

The screen has just died on my Acer One which I used for sofa surfing, light emailing, the odd film when traveling, and that's pretty much about it. It filled the gap lovely between flashing up my proper work laptop, or going into the study and using the desktop.

I'm replacing it with an iPad

[6BMW]

OH YES the bloody Ipad i didn't think about that! Whens the UK launch?

[otolith]

Arese said:

6BMW said:

yep John Lewis online have a vaio at £299 but its out of stock online.

Someone at works just shown me this:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/FB990B/A?mco=MTA...

BOY am I tempted at that price ! Are these any good?

£765?! Are they over twice as good as the Vaio/Asus/ANOther products? Would you get twice as much use, fun, productivity out of a Macbook as you would with the others? Personally I think you'd be paying for the name, looks, 'kudos' of having a Macbook when something for half the price would do the job.

To be fair, a MacBook Pro is not a direct alternative to a cheap netbook, it's a proper laptop.

[mel]

6BMW said:

OH YES the bloody Ipad i didn't think about that! Whens the UK launch?

"late April"

[V-spec]

My GF bought a Samsung netbook after lots of internet research a few weeks ago. Worked well until she tried to charge it - message said "plugged in not charging".
Was bought via Amazon, so now been posted (at our cost) to a repairer, but it was implied that we will have to pay for a new battery. Of course I have no intention of doing that... but waiting to see first. Customer service gets a big fat zero though.

[pokethepope]

working class said:

Slightly o/p, does anyone ever do word processing on these things, such as college work etc?

I am considering buying one instead of a laptop, but not sure if this is a wise move?

Yep, its been my only laptop at uni since August last year, its perfectly useable, although I have the Samsung with the larger keyboard (N120, but may have been replaced).

As for other stuff, it handles iPlayer and other video sites fine, can do photo editing as well (obviously processing times for effects/changes will be longer).

Having said that, I take mine to campus every day, but if you think it will stay on the desk most of the time I would go for a 15" full size laptop.

[working class]

pokethepope said:

working class said:

Slightly o/p, does anyone ever do word processing on these things, such as college work etc?

I am considering buying one instead of a laptop, but not sure if this is a wise move?

Yep, its been my only laptop at uni since August last year, its perfectly useable, although I have the Samsung with the larger keyboard (N120, but may have been replaced).

As for other stuff, it handles iPlayer and other video sites fine, can do photo editing as well (obviously processing times for effects/changes will be longer).

Having said that, I take mine to campus every day, but if you think it will stay on the desk most of the time I would go for a 15" full size laptop.

Excellent reply, thanks very much!

[Arese]

otolith said:

Arese said:

6BMW said:

yep John Lewis online have a vaio at £299 but its out of stock online.

Someone at works just shown me this:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/FB990B/A?mco=MTA...

BOY am I tempted at that price ! Are these any good?

£765?! Are they over twice as good as the Vaio/Asus/ANOther products? Would you get twice as much use, fun, productivity out of a Macbook as you would with the others? Personally I think you'd be paying for the name, looks, 'kudos' of having a Macbook when something for half the price would do the job.

To be fair, a MacBook Pro is not a direct alternative to a cheap netbook, it's a proper laptop.

Fair point. I was assuming OP was looking for Netbook-like performance/features so just compared (perhaps wrongly) the Macbook Pro on that basis.

[Arese]

working class said:

pokethepope said:

working class said:

Slightly o/p, does anyone ever do word processing on these things, such as college work etc?

I am considering buying one instead of a laptop, but not sure if this is a wise move?

Yep, its been my only laptop at uni since August last year, its perfectly useable, although I have the Samsung with the larger keyboard (N120, but may have been replaced).

As for other stuff, it handles iPlayer and other video sites fine, can do photo editing as well (obviously processing times for effects/changes will be longer).

Having said that, I take mine to campus every day, but if you think it will stay on the desk most of the time I would go for a 15" full size laptop.

Excellent reply, thanks very much!

You could always get a cheap USB keyboard if you're going to be typing on it for hours, and just leave that at your 'base'.

[mel]

Arese said:

working class said:

pokethepope said:

working class said:

Slightly o/p, does anyone ever do word processing on these things, such as college work etc?

I am considering buying one instead of a laptop, but not sure if this is a wise move?

Yep, its been my only laptop at uni since August last year, its perfectly useable, although I have the Samsung with the larger keyboard (N120, but may have been replaced).

As for other stuff, it handles iPlayer and other video sites fine, can do photo editing as well (obviously processing times for effects/changes will be longer).

Having said that, I take mine to campus every day, but if you think it will stay on the desk most of the time I would go for a 15" full size laptop.

Excellent reply, thanks very much!

You could always get a cheap USB keyboard if you're going to be typing on it for hours, and just leave that at your 'base'.

And while you're at it why not plug it into a bigger monitor as well, oh wait a minute

[Arese]

mel said:

Arese said:

working class said:

pokethepope said:

working class said:

Slightly o/p, does anyone ever do word processing on these things, such as college work etc?

I am considering buying one instead of a laptop, but not sure if this is a wise move?

Yep, its been my only laptop at uni since August last year, its perfectly useable, although I have the Samsung with the larger keyboard (N120, but may have been replaced).

As for other stuff, it handles iPlayer and other video sites fine, can do photo editing as well (obviously processing times for effects/changes will be longer).

Having said that, I take mine to campus every day, but if you think it will stay on the desk most of the time I would go for a 15" full size laptop.

Excellent reply, thanks very much!

You could always get a cheap USB keyboard if you're going to be typing on it for hours, and just leave that at your 'base'.

And while you're at it why not plug it into a bigger monitor as well, oh wait a minute

I had actually typed 'and also a bigger monitor, and a USB mouse' but changed my mind

[working class]

mel said:

Arese said:

working class said:

pokethepope said:

working class said:

Slightly o/p, does anyone ever do word processing on these things, such as college work etc?

I am considering buying one instead of a laptop, but not sure if this is a wise move?

Yep, its been my only laptop at uni since August last year, its perfectly useable, although I have the Samsung with the larger keyboard (N120, but may have been replaced).

As for other stuff, it handles iPlayer and other video sites fine, can do photo editing as well (obviously processing times for effects/changes will be longer).

Having said that, I take mine to campus every day, but if you think it will stay on the desk most of the time I would go for a 15" full size laptop.

Excellent reply, thanks very much!

You could always get a cheap USB keyboard if you're going to be typing on it for hours, and just leave that at your 'base'.

And while you're at it why not plug it into a bigger monitor as well, oh wait a minute

And get an external cd/dvd drive?

[mel]

and a big hardrive......