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What shall I get..?
« on: August 26, 2009, 03:00:04 PM »
Ok so I'm gunna sell my laptop hopefully for around £300. And I kinda want a desktop, but I shall be going to uni in a couple of years, as I'm starting sixth form soon. So a desktop would be inpratical. So I need a laptop, but someone recommeded one of those small laptops (forgot the name). So what should I do. What do you guys recommend???

Budget £350~

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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2009, 03:04:35 PM »
small laptops? you mean one of these? http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/501256

 EDIT: just saw the battery life on the dell  :fear: 3hours....

 take a look at this one
 http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/057263 has 9 hours battery life.. will be great for when you are in the sixthform room or uni!
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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2009, 03:10:53 PM »
Quote from: gamerdude767 on August 26, 2009, 03:04:35 PM
small laptops? you mean one of these? http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/501256

 EDIT: just saw the battery life on the dell  :fear: 3hours....

 take a look at this one
 http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/057263 has 9 hours battery life.. will be great for when you are in the sixthform room or uni!

lookks good apart form its XP - I prefer Vista and it only has 1gb of ram...
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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2009, 03:22:56 PM »
i dont think you can get a netbook with more RAM... correct me if im wrong.
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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2009, 03:26:53 PM »
hmm - My mums bf was on about some that have - Ill seee what he throws up (Y)
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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2009, 04:53:17 PM »
1.5GB is the actual limit on what you can get in a netbook i think
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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2009, 04:06:52 AM »
Why in the world would you want Vista over XP. XP>Vista
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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2009, 06:15:54 AM »
vista + netbook with 1gig of ram = notwin (DONOTWANT!!!)
ubuntu, xp, or hackintosh, correct?
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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2009, 06:30:43 AM »
Windows 7 works extremely well even in 1GB of RAM. Also , the limit in quite a few netbooks is 2GB.....
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Oh n btw .... i think you still have quite a few years to go before uni and a netbook will definitely not cut it till then. They are good enough for only basic tasks at best.... forget serious photoshop or any kind of video encoding / gaming on it. if you want to code on it , then the screen size will be an issue.....

Think about all this and then decide ....

Ur current lappy is much much better than a netbook by far....
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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2009, 09:25:11 AM »
Ok, I have a netbook so....

If you want to:

Take it with you to pretty much anywhere
Take notes in class

Then get a netbook.

If you plan on:

Using it as a main PC
Typing long essays
Any activity that requires long battery life
Something that has a lot of performance.

Get a proper laptop.

Netbooks are designed to be used for the internet, Not as a main computer. I found that one out the hard way.
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Re: What shall I get..?
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2009, 03:00:58 PM »
Quote from: Slim Hacker on August 26, 2009, 04:53:17 PM
1.5GB is the actual limit on what you can get in a netbook i think


incorrect, my eeepc i had upgraded to 2gb. and all of it worked.

and dhruv, i had cs3 and cs4 extended on my netbook, took some time to boot up, but they both worked fine on it...just photoshopping with a touchpad is a pain in the ass.
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