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Guest Prosody
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I'm seriously considering this, as I was planning on spending almot £300 for an 8gig EEE with 1 gig ram.

If the PC world finance options for this were better I'd order one now, might try an order just to see if there are more finance options than listed next to the product. :/

Guest Monolithix
Posted

Certainly a decent spec, but it's seriously infringing on the budget-laptop er....budget now! Having said that if i'd had the choice between that and the EEE when i got mine i think i might have been swayed :/ (i think the EEE is better looking though...)

Guest Paul (MVP)
Posted

Too expensive, and ugly.

>250 quid, not interested.

P

Guest Prosody
Posted

Well the E-Bayers selling the 8gig with 1 gig of ram (like theoneyou bought) come to almost 300 with shipping, this comes with XP and 30 gigs... to me thats worth the extra £50. It's not as pretty but it's not ugly I don't think. Gonna go down toPC world to see if I can get a feel for it. :(

Guest Holyprop
Posted

no touchpad???? also its fairly ugly, ill give it a miss

Guest Holyprop
Posted
It'll be a dodgy version of XP though :)

almost certainly true :D

Guest Prosody
Posted (edited)

If I were to go with the 4gig EE option Holyprop mentioned then I would have to buy at least a 4 gig SDHC card for my purposes, which would mean I'm approaching £300, then there's the dodgy windows version and the hastle in getting an external CD drive to install apps with.

With the Packard Bell I could set up windows networking and then using demon tools mount isos of office etc that I can copy across the network to install them.

The way I'm looking at it is that yes I could get a budget laptop for just a bit more with better specs all round but its the size I'm after, in terms of Ultra Portable notebooks then compared to the Vaios I see for £1000 plus the £350 is great. :)

I'm 90% swayed towards getting the Packard Bell. :D

Edited by Prosody
Guest Paul (MVP)
Posted

What do you use as a mouse on it if there's no touchpad?

P

Guest Prosody
Posted

There is a touchpad... it's small but it's above thekeyboard on the right hand side, the left and right click are on the left so if can be operated with your thumbs a bit like a game pad.

The video above shows it. Not ideal but seems to work... saying that I've swayed back towards the EEE again.. gah... just can't make up my mind.

I think mainly I want it for web browsing and writing and that's what I have to keep in mind, however when i see something with more bells and whistles I just start drooling and my mind rationalises away hundreds of pounds... does this happen to anyone else? :/

Guest EdinKali
Posted
There is a touchpad... it's small but it's above thekeyboard on the right hand side, the left and right click are on the left so if can be operated with your thumbs a bit like a game pad.

The video above shows it. Not ideal but seems to work... saying that I've swayed back towards the EEE again.. gah... just can't make up my mind.

I think mainly I want it for web browsing and writing and that's what I have to keep in mind, however when i see something with more bells and whistles I just start drooling and my mind rationalises away hundreds of pounds... does this happen to anyone else? :/

Yike's! Made by Packard Bell. Run away, run far away! :)

Guest Prosody
Posted
Yike's! Made by Packard Bell. Run away, run far away! :)

LOL

It's just badged by them, it's made by a third party. I'm pretty sure I'm going to stick to getting a 4 Gig EEE, 90% at least :D Need to be sensible.

Plus I hearthat the processor inside the cloudbooker isn't as good as the EEE, and the graphics chip barely does any 3D. :/

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