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My father came back today from Staples with a photo copy of an advert for an Asus Eee PC 900 for £150 (reduced from £198.67) with both Customer Return and Ex Demo boxes ticked and 10 month warranty written by hand at the bottom.
Spec listed as:
16GB SSD with Linux
Celeron M 353
1GB RAM
1.3MP Cam
etc.
I've not kept up with Netbooks but I know that the 900 model has been superseded by the new Atom based Eee PCs and also that the 900 model was the second of its kind to be released.
Does anybody think that the above is worth £150?
I've been looking out to get my father a new laptop for quite some time now (current laptop is a Centrino 1.7Ghz 512MB RAM Evesham setup which has a knackered PSU plug and the third battery on the way out). The Evesham was purchased 4 years ago (I think) but it won't last long.
Considering you can (or at least could last week, if the offer is expired I imagine a new one will appear somewhere else) get a brand new Acer Aspire One for £200 with an Atom, 1GB RAM and 120GB hard drive, a returned ex-demo Eee900 for £150 doesnt seem so brilliant.
Hell, Asda were selling brand new Aspire Ones for £150 last month, though with 512MB RAM and possibly an 8GB SSD.
I'd personally just keep an eye on hotukdeals and grab the next one that inevitably appears. New stuff is coming out all the time so old models are getting punted out cheap despite being almost identical specs.
NokkonWud
14-02-2009, 04:50
As above really, keep an eye on HUKD and snap up a bargain for the newer models.
Until just before Christmas I was looking at getting him a Lenovo Thinkpad around £650.
My reasons for this was that hopefully a more robust business laptop would live through his treatment of electronic devices better than a £300 laptop or similar priced netbook.
NokkonWud
14-02-2009, 14:10
What do you want it for? The Samsung NC10 is extremely well build, much more solid feeling than any laptop I've used before including any Dell (inc. the XPS range), Sony Vaio's, Toshiba's, Asus', Acer's and more.
A Place of Light
14-02-2009, 14:38
Advent 4211 here and personally I think it's brilliant.
My father only uses his laptop now for surfing the net, email and office documents etc.
This is the Lenovo that I was looking at:
http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?prodID=B149886
Del Lardo
14-02-2009, 19:33
Until just before Christmas I was looking at getting him a Lenovo Thinkpad around £650.
My reasons for this was that hopefully a more robust business laptop would live through his treatment of electronic devices better than a £300 laptop or similar priced netbook.
My lenovo feels like a very solid bit of kit but I still managed to kill the HDD within 3 months of getting it.
Justsomebloke
14-02-2009, 19:38
I'm having one of these Eeeepc's for myself when the time is right. Those that want to carry on using the web as it was meant to be used should do the same.
I won't write my intentions in public but Linux/wifi/ultra portability suits my needs perfectly.
I'm told the Aspire Ones in Asda are actually still about here and there but you have to ask for them as they aren't on display.
1.6GHz Atom, 512MB RAM with a 120GB or 160GB hard drive (depending on stock) running the Linpus Linux most of them seem to.
Might be worth a phone call to a couple of your nearer branches.
My lenovo feels like a very solid bit of kit but I still managed to kill the HDD within 3 months of getting it.
How did you manage that?
I'm told the Aspire Ones in Asda are actually still about here and there but you have to ask for them as they aren't on display.
1.6GHz Atom, 512MB RAM with a 120GB or 160GB hard drive (depending on stock) running the Linpus Linux most of them seem to.
Might be worth a phone call to a couple of your nearer branches.
I don't know if my father would understand Linux if I were to get him a Linux based netbook. My father has a very basic understanding of pcs and is only just able to navigate his way around his existing XP laptop after 4 years. As such if I were to pickup a netbook then I an XP based one would be the first choice.
I work for Staples, that sounds like an alright deal as far as our rules go.
Will say though that of all the netbooks they are the "worst" ones - lowest spec and the worst screens. The AAO is a brilliant netbook (my household has two) and I have a Samsung NC10 which rocks. The AAOs run Ubuntu Netbook Remix as does my NC10. All of these benefit massively from RAM upgrades though.
Ordered an NC10 from Dixons for £288.03 and 2GB RAM from Crucial. I'll of course have to give it a test run when it arrives as I'm tempted to get one myself :D
Not that it matters now but the Linpus installs on netbooks are very simple and easy, these devices are after all aimed at convenience. It's not convenient if you need to spend a month figuring it out.
On the Aspire you had 4 'sections' (presented on boot as a big menu screen thing) of Internet, Work, Media and something I forget. Then in Internet there was a Browser button which opened firefox for example. All very simple and skinned to resemble XP too.
I was actually quite impressed to be fair, though I was more excited with the prospect of putting Windows 7 on it :p
NokkonWud
15-02-2009, 05:15
Good call Zico. What colour did you get, White, Black or Blue?
Del Lardo
15-02-2009, 15:15
How did you manage that?
No idea. I got on a plane in Las Vegas and it was working fine, I got off a plane at Heathrow 16 hours later and it wasn't :'(
It's a work laptop so it does actually get moved around rather than sitting at home so I suspect the wear and tear I put on my machines is much higher than most. Prior to my lenovo I had a Dell D830 which was on it's last legs after a year and prior to that a Dell D520 which was completely ****ed after a year.
I got the Asus 900a and installed eebuntu on it. No problems here at all.
Good call Zico. What colour did you get, White, Black or Blue?
Blue.
No idea. I got on a plane in Las Vegas and it was working fine, I got off a plane at Heathrow 16 hours later and it wasn't :'(
What goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas eh ;);D:lipsrsealed:
Does anybody have the link to the Asda deal on HUKD? I don't mind if it is marked as expired as it's purely for reference.
Del Lardo
19-02-2009, 01:59
Blue.
What goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas eh ;);D:lipsrsealed:
Not really.
<----- Taken in Vegas
If you ask really nicely I'll tell you all about the p0rn star convention that was taking place next door to my hotel :evil:
Does anybody have the link to the Asda deal on HUKD? I don't mind if it is marked as expired as it's purely for reference.
The all-knowing Google says:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/318205/acer-aspire-one-aoa150-ab-netbook-w
PS - took a bit of perseverance, that one. I must still be too awake.
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