10" Netbooks - any good?

[Swales lives]

My daughter wants one of those 10" Netbooks for Xmas. I've been having a look at various reviews etc.
Going to buy from the cheapest end of the market (about £240).
She'll just use it for the web, playing games and arsing around in Word, are these machines any good?
Does anyone on here use one? Any recommendations would be good. It seems Acer and Dell are the best for the price. Whaddaya tink? Cheers.

 

[Anonymous]

they seem to be quite fashionable at the moment. i think there is just a memory issue.

has your post count been culled?

 

[Swales lives]

they seem to be quite fashionable at the moment. i think there is just a memory issue.

has your post count been culled?

I don't expect these netbooks to be any good myself, but it won't be getting any heavy use.
She does use my mac a fair bit, but she's not keeping me off here.

 

[pjpar]

Try the dell outlet mate, you can pick up 10 inches (oooer mrs) for around £140

http://outlet.euro.dell.com/topics/.../en/InventorySearch?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh

Better than netbook with decent spec http://www1.ap.dell.com/hk/en/home/...spx?refid=laptop-inspiron-10v&cs=hkdhs1&s=dhs

 

[Ronnie the Rep]

I bought a Toshiba one for when I travel as the blackberry isn't big enough. it's great with a 9 hour battery life

 

[Stanley]

I just bought one of these for my young un,

It has an in built bluetooth skype phone and windows xp. And its only £170.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/7-El...A-C7-M-12GHz-1GB-DDR2-533MHz-30GB-HDD-XP-Home

 

[ultimateharold]

They're ideal for general use. Dont know which games you mean above, as anything above casual things like zuma and the like will struggle. Also, make sure you pick one with an optical drive or remember to pick up an external one.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I've got a Samsung netbook as I'm away from home most of the time and need something light and portable. Superb for web and Word but might struggle with a game with heavy graphics like The Sims.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Brilliant for what they do but they won't handle games.

 

[Dan]

watch out what operating system it has dont get anything unless its got windows. Some have linux and they aren't compatable with a lot of things especially wireless broadband dongles. they wont be any use for gaming because as was mentioned before most of them (at least what we sell at comet) dont have optical drives so you would struggle loading software on to them eg antivirus if you dont have a usb external optical drive. Oh and dont buy acer! ;)