I bought this product before Christmas for £186 from IT247 as my laptop had well and truely packed up. It came with Linux which I just couldn't fathom, but I installed XP and have not had any problems.
It appealed to me as I was after a cheap laptop in the £200 region, for internet and word processing and not a great deal else, but didn't like the plastic-y appearance and small keyboard of the other netbooks. Also it came with a good sized hard drive and integrated wi-fi and bluetooth. Perfect.
It takes a while to get used to the smaller screen but compared to my old laptop (a 4 year old Toshiba satellite pro that was a nightmare from day 1!) it is highly transportable and yet still functions well beyond the spec of a 'netbook'.
I had read that the battery life is short (i think less than 2 hours, please double check this though) but as I use it plugged in this doesn't affect me. I have found that it freezes occasionally (like any computer I have ever used!) but rebooting it has never failed. It is obviously not for gamers or people who need great processors but for internet usage, word, excel etc it is more than adequate. You can use iplayer and 4od on it. I have an external drive (it has no integrated cd drive, like all laptops of this size) but have not tried to watch dvds.
Would recommend highly.
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I think these details can be found under the main item page however to be honest I have no idea! This is written from the viewpoint who doesn't know her GBs from her RAMs just wants an easy to use andcooperative little laptop!
thereddragon 28.04.2009 16:00
Sounds like great value for money, would have been interesting to have a few more details such as hard drive size, how much RAM, and what processor it uses.
Features: Operating SystemLinux Weight1.27Kg ProcessorVia C7-M (1.2GHz) Main Memory1GB ... more
Hard Drive120GB Hard Drive Display8.9-inch WXGA LCD Wi-Fi802.11b/g WLAN BluetoothYes It might be small in size but its big on usability, durability, and attractive...
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Features: Operating SystemWindows Vista Business Weight1.27Kg ProcessorVia C7-M (1.6GHz) ... more
Main Memory1GB Hard Drive120GB Hard Drive Display8.9-inch WXGA LCD Wi-Fi802.11a/b/g WLAN BluetoothYes It might be small in size but its big on usability, durabil...
Postage & Packaging: £5.35 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...