Net book advice….. Mini laptop

[coyote]

cheap under $800

For data logging?

Mate, the less you post .. the smarter you look.


Tony,

Anything that can run a Windows OS and has usb and sd slots will do the job.

[tangcla]

If you want to use the netbook as a computer, go and try all of them to see if you like the feel of the keyboard and touchpad. A world of difference between various netbooks. The layout is incredibly important as the keyboard is alreadly a sub-standard size.

[smythie]

what ever you do... DO NOT BUY A DELL
better off burning your money
downloading it on a disk and throwing it out a window
DELL is a piece of C$@P
http://www.dellsucks.com.au/crap

Senator, whatever you do DO NOT LISTEN TO THAT CRAP

Dell isn't any worse than any of the other major brands. It is up with HP, Sony, Toshiba and Lenovo as the best reliability wise. Dell's product support is arguably the best.

No matter the brand there will always be one or two who have a bad machine. Selling hundreds of thousands of machines means that even at a 99.9% rate, there will be 1 in a thousand that fail.

[senator]

what ever you do... DO NOT BUY A DELL
better off burning your money
downloading it on a disk and throwing it out a window
DELL is a piece of C$@P
http://www.dellsucks.com.au/crap

Senator, whatever you do DO NOT LISTEN TO THAT CRAP

Dell isn't any worse than any of the other major brands. It is up with HP, Sony, Toshiba and Lenovo as the best reliability wise. Dell's product support is arguably the best.

No matter the brand there will always be one or two who have a bad machine. Selling hundreds of thousands of machines means that even at a 99.9% rate, there will be 1 in a thousand that fail.

Don’t worry mate.............dell have come a loooooong way in my eyes.

i recently purchased a Dell ...... well Alienware M17X and was very surprised to find out it was actaully built by Dell,

[coyote]

Here you go Tony, under $300 and will do everything you want:

http://penta.com.au/index.php?main_page ... s_id=18934

[subarugt]

don't get windows xp netbooks anymore. windows xp already end of life. I'd recommend getting a netbook with at least windows 7 starter.
this if u want cheap $
http://penta.com.au/index.php?main_page ... cts_id=581

ASUS EEE PC 1001HA-BLK008S N270,1GB,160GB,10.1 ,Intel UMA,b/g/n WLAN,0.3MP,Win7 Starter.
Price : $374.00

Have to double check with them before you buy make sure it comes with genuine windows 7 starter, Because it says win xp on top but says win7 starter in the title and the specs. Make sure it's not doggy shop end up selling you only windows XP. Just the windows 7 starter os software could cost you over $100


If you don't mind spending $712
ASUS EEE PC T101MT-WHI001M N450 1.33GHZ,FREE SHIPPING WITH MULTI TOUCH TABLET, 320GB HDD, 2GB DDR2, 10.1'', 0.3M CAM, BT, 802.11BGN 10/100, WIN 7 HP
http://penta.com.au/index.php?main_page ... s_id=12618
has multi touch screens. comes with windows 7 home premium. If you just buy the win 7 hp version alone it could cost you over $200 retail.

the t101mt is much better than Ipad with a cheaper price. you can use it for everyday computing including watching HD videos as well. but I did read some reviews about the t101mt being quite slow due to slow hdd. but this is same case for all other netbooks unless they use SSD hdds.

spend less than $300 more you will get yourself a much better product.

again. windows xp is a No No.

[Boxer]

Here you go Tony, under $300 and will do everything you want:

http://penta.com.au/index.php?main_page ... s_id=18934

^^^ Yep almost exactly what I have (mine is the now supersceded Ao250D - this is the replacement model) And like everything they just get cheaper and cheaper (mines 6 months old and that one is $40 cheaper)

[austin]

The netbook that i recommend to anyone that asks is the Asus 1005P (i think). its sub $500 has 250gb hdd, bluetooth and the usual atom processor. staff price for me on one of those is a little over $400 from memory. i highly rate asus gear. and i agree that dell isnt crap, i have a dell M1330 and if there has been any issues they come to my house the next day and fix it onsite, brilliant in my opinion.

and if anyone near frankston good guys needs something electrical, i am more than happy to help out.

[smythie]

hmm, I'll be down in Frankston on Monday night for a few nights.

[austin]

hmm, I'll be down in Frankston on Monday night for a few nights.

just remember to either carry a knife or another form of weapon......... frankston is almost the scum of the earth haha

[Boxer]

hmm, I'll be down in Frankston on Monday night for a few nights.

just remember to either carry a knife or another form of weapon......... frankston is almost the scum of the earth haha

If you are walking around carrying a knife then you are scum of the earth -

[austin]

hmm, I'll be down in Frankston on Monday night for a few nights.

just remember to either carry a knife or another form of weapon......... frankston is almost the scum of the earth haha

If you are walking around carrying a knife then you are scum of the earth -

haha this is frankston we are talking about. shootings, robberies, bashings, rape, and even now child pornography...... all extremely common. You can't really judge unless you have been there for a while.... I live in the next suburb down and work in frankston, its shocking hahahahaha.

not that i or anyone i know carries a weapon, it always seems fitting if you venture into frankston lol.

BTW there is a cheap dell mini 10 with tv tuner blah blah blah at work. (had to post something relevent to the topic)

[smythie]

I've spent quite a few weeks down in Frankston over the last 3 years. Never had a hassle. Has never seemed any more seedy than any other place I've been *shrug*

[MH3.0R]

Ok, I am in the market for a small notebook or netbook, but I also want to use it for home wireless access to broadband.

Seems like SSD is the way to go. What size are these and will they run well with Windows 7? I figure a 2Gb RAM would be sensible for Win7 and definitely want Multi Card Reader, 2 or 3 x USB, 10.1, Vehicle charger.

Tom, are you open late on Thursday nights or Friday nights?

[smythie]

SSD on a netbook? You're adding a fair bit (in the order of over 50% extra) onto the cost of the machine if you want reasonable storage capacity. A quick look through the Officeworks, Dell, HP and Acer sites reveals zero models with SSD too...

I've been using notebooks with the contemporary rotating plate hard drives for 9 years now and have never seen a hard drive failure from rough usage (in that time I guess the population I have been directly exposed to or responsible for would be close to 50 - 5 of those being "mine"). Always a first time for anything though but I have seen notebooks fall off desks and such and keep on trucking along. If you are thinking SSD for reliability and shock resistance I would suggest that sitting in a car is not going to be a problem for them.

Speed wise SSD will be better - I still can't get past the tax you pay to get that speed