Is this a good laptop?

Looks OK for doing your usual web browsing, Word, Excel, Outlook etc. It would be limited for any graphics intensive gaming though (as are most laptops).

I'm running a 1ghz tablet PC which is way slower than the one you've picked out, but runs Office etc fine.

So...depends what you want to do with it, but looks pretty nice at that price.

NB: As it's running XP, you can hook your old desktop monitor to it and run both it and the laptop monitor at the same time, sort of expanding your desktop across two screens. Very cool, cant work without it these days. Outlook inbox on one screen, web browser on the other. Lovely.
 
Well, my first reaction would be - can you live with the size? I find most really small laptops only good for occasional use. My hands aren't particularly large so that's not the problem here...

I tend to buy laptops with 14" screens, they seem to offer the best compromise for me.

That said, I'd say it should be more than up to the usual office/email/browsing stuff.
 
They all look not to bad for the price....but i would always go for the top of the range at the time when it comes to PC/Laptop for obvious reasons... Note the ones posted on here are all Pentium M Processors and slow ones at that. 1.73 Ghz.

Will never go wrong with AMD Athlon Processors. Speeds are up and above 3.0Ghz now almost double what you are looking at here...

Really depends on what you want it for...but if your like me you will always want to get the next best thing...boys with toys attitude...I cant help it :nenau

Macca
 
Nooooooooooo

The Pentium M's run at slower clocks but have huge caches (2Mb) and are equal to performance of AMD but with much better battery life.
 
NO.

The clue is in the " Shared Graphics " memory, it has no graphics memory of its own so uses a portion of the main memory, you can do a lot better for the same money, the CPU is mediocre at best, get a centrino, 1024 Mb memory and !28mb of dedicated graphics, Dell are good. Or Aldi when they have 'em.

Avoid PC World at all costs.
 
ovenpaa said:
Vista will not appear until 2007 ..
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Erm, but 2007 iss only just over 7 months away!!

Personally, I prefer to future-proof as much as I can.

Greg
 
Greg Masters said:
Erm, but 2007 iss only just over 7 months away!!

Personally, I prefer to future-proof as much as I can.

Greg
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Having spent time with the earlier builds I find it incredibly resource hungry and also suspect it is going to run even later than forecasted, so it could well be 12 or 14 months away, and unless they make some step changes back to the original concept it will not be a significant change as such. I would stop with XP

Actually I wouldnt, I would look at Linux, it is a good alternative now and offerings such as the latest Suse build is very nice, with all the security pluses against the better known exploits, sadly still a bit of a thinking mans O/S.
 
Check out the new Macbook (not the macbook pro), it can run windows xp and mac OS and looks very good value, very fast intel dual core processor, good battery life, 13 inch screen (quite small) etc - I've just ordered one... :bounce1
 
Thanks Gents. I bought an ACER 1550 ASPIRE in the end. 2.0 centrino, 80gb drive and 128 ATI integrated graphics card. So far, so good. The advice on the graphics card was the final decider, as I wanted to play games and watch dvd/photos etc. Thanks again :thumb
 
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