SMALL laptop

[stevia13]

I have just bought a Samsung NC10.

Have loaded Mapsource, Microsoft Office and Photoshop onto it.

I must say I am mightily impressed with its performance and quality. The screen is particularly good and not glossy so hopefully should handle glare better. It is excellent for browsing the web. One of the reasons I bought it was because the battery life is reportedly better than most/all competitors.

As has been said in previous responses itis woth buying a mouse rather than using the trackpad. I bought a wireless one with a small dongle (seemed apt somehow )

Ian

Ian, where did you buy NC10 from - how many pennies?? HAve you heard o fMSI Wind U120, due out this month apparently???

 

[Pressurized]

My wife runs a 900 with Ubuntu 8.04 as her only machine these days and loves it to bits, the original OS (Xandros) is OK for everything the average user would need but she just had a thing about Ubuntu...

I was pleasantly surprised at how few questions she asked and how she just got on with it as she is not a *nix type person. She tells me the eeeP forums are very good and answer 99% of her questions and really all I do is point her to the terminal and show her some tricks (command line stuff) most of which is not needed but as she asked

With WINE you could probably run Mapsource and cover all bases from email to web browsing included. The only issues to date have been our online banking with Denmark (They do not offer Linux signature files) UK banks are fine. Also shopping at Tescos is a PITA as they do not support Firefox very well.

10/10 for a lovely little machine.

EDIT - Typed on my Thinkpad running XP in classic mode, give me proper sized keyboards any day!

Ian, where did you buy NC10 from - how many pennies?? HAve you heard o fMSI Wind U120, due out this month apparently???

+1 on all of that but it runs 8.10 even better.

The SSD drives in it will offer a marginal advantage in reliability when on the road. I would, however choose based on operating system. If you're going to stick with Windows, get the Samsung. If you want to try Linux, get the Eee because the forum support is fantastic. I am reliably informed it will run MapSource (via Wine) when using Linux but, this year when I went away I downgraded it to XP to get that to work. Wouldn't do that again, mind.

 

[GSTourer]

Ian, where did you buy NC10 from - how many pennies?? HAve you heard o fMSI Wind U120, due out this month apparently???

Stevia,


I got mine from PC World........and paid £320, which I think is pretty competitive. Had it for about 3 weeks and am still really pleased. To be honest I use it more than my desktop in the evenings at home, I can sit and surf the web and watch tv too.

I bought it because it seemed to get the best reviews over the competitors. I realise it doesn't have solid state memory but I hope if I treat it carefully I can still take it on the bike when I go on trips away.

Good luck in choosing and let us know which you go for.

Ian

 

[mike wright]

http://www.acer.com/aspireone/

We were looking at this the other weekend. The hubby is a bit of a nerd and he says for the money, it's not a bad deal.

http://www.boulanger.fr/acer/portable_acer_aspire_one_a150-bb_bleu_xp/p_39101_293892.htm

I think this was the one that ran Windows.

I bought the Acer with XP and its a superb bit of kit

 

[davegs]

Acers

Usless info from a computer duffer! (I kid you not) in 2007 rode from Aklaska to Ushia Argrentina, one og the top boys outr man Geoff had an acer three years old and took this withhim on his 1200 and this was one of many offroad
trips uhe'd done with it, never a problem with the Acer at all,. or the bikle (no,
really!!) and this was three years old then so would not have had a solid state hard drive. This toook punishment belive me so don't worry too much about it if it has no solid state hd.
Dave ( I hate computers) GS roll on 2010 and SHROPPERS on the 23rd!!!!!
( shroppers is how the upper class might refer to Shropshire, and I just take 'ow you say the peees!)