Nazkyn
25th December 2008, 01:03 PM
Hi all,
Basically I'm wanting to buy a new laptop and was wondering if you lot could help me out :) My budget is around 500 pounds (no pound sign on my keyobard, my current laptop is Canadian, lol) +/-
Preferably, I would like a netbook, but I'm not completely sure that a netbook would satisfy my requirements, so I would settle for a notebook.
I'm really not bothered about speed, just as long as it does what I want it to do, which is - my university work - programming, conferencing and running office programs, preferably, it would also have an inbuilt HSPDA modem that can download at atleast 3mbps and supports Vodafone (or is that wishful thinking?), again though, that's a preference, not a neccesity.
If I could get dedicated graphics in a notebook for 500 quid... we'll be on to a winner, also if I could upgrade to 4gb of ram, that would be great, but 2gb will do fine, a decent amount of storage is also neccesary, atleast 80gb. The less bulk, the better as I will be travelling about with it frequently.
I won't go for pre-owned either.
Lastly, I despise Windows Vista so my next computer will preferably come with Windows XP home edition pre-installed.
A small, lightweight laptop for around 500 quid with inbuilt HSPDA modem, Windows XP home, and dedicated graphics sounds a bit too good to be true though... or is it? I'll let you decide, I have a migraine from trying to find anything.
The Samsung NC10 looks excellent, but 1. I'm not sure if it has an inbuilt HSPDA modem? (I read one review stating that it does), 2. I'm not sure if it's up to the task?
Thanks for any help.
Have a good Christmas!
UPDATE: I've decided on the new version of the Samsung NC10 due to be released with an internal 3g modem :)
Thanks for all the help, you've been invaluable.
So now I have a question about partitioning :) I've never bothered with partitioning before, but I figured that it would be handy to partition the NC10's HD as it doesn't have any sort of disc drive.
The standard NC10 comes with a 160gb pre-partitioned HD, the hidden partition contains the recovery data which you would tap F4 on start-up to utilise. I want to delete this recovery data, customise my own nlite installation image and put this in it's own hidden partition and then have the option of booting from this partion when I tap F4, is that possible? And what software would I need to do that?
Thanks in advance :)
Basically I'm wanting to buy a new laptop and was wondering if you lot could help me out :) My budget is around 500 pounds (no pound sign on my keyobard, my current laptop is Canadian, lol) +/-
Preferably, I would like a netbook, but I'm not completely sure that a netbook would satisfy my requirements, so I would settle for a notebook.
I'm really not bothered about speed, just as long as it does what I want it to do, which is - my university work - programming, conferencing and running office programs, preferably, it would also have an inbuilt HSPDA modem that can download at atleast 3mbps and supports Vodafone (or is that wishful thinking?), again though, that's a preference, not a neccesity.
If I could get dedicated graphics in a notebook for 500 quid... we'll be on to a winner, also if I could upgrade to 4gb of ram, that would be great, but 2gb will do fine, a decent amount of storage is also neccesary, atleast 80gb. The less bulk, the better as I will be travelling about with it frequently.
I won't go for pre-owned either.
Lastly, I despise Windows Vista so my next computer will preferably come with Windows XP home edition pre-installed.
A small, lightweight laptop for around 500 quid with inbuilt HSPDA modem, Windows XP home, and dedicated graphics sounds a bit too good to be true though... or is it? I'll let you decide, I have a migraine from trying to find anything.
The Samsung NC10 looks excellent, but 1. I'm not sure if it has an inbuilt HSPDA modem? (I read one review stating that it does), 2. I'm not sure if it's up to the task?
Thanks for any help.
Have a good Christmas!
UPDATE: I've decided on the new version of the Samsung NC10 due to be released with an internal 3g modem :)
Thanks for all the help, you've been invaluable.
So now I have a question about partitioning :) I've never bothered with partitioning before, but I figured that it would be handy to partition the NC10's HD as it doesn't have any sort of disc drive.
The standard NC10 comes with a 160gb pre-partitioned HD, the hidden partition contains the recovery data which you would tap F4 on start-up to utilise. I want to delete this recovery data, customise my own nlite installation image and put this in it's own hidden partition and then have the option of booting from this partion when I tap F4, is that possible? And what software would I need to do that?
Thanks in advance :)