choosing a laptop, advice please, possibly an eee.

[polaris]

ive been considering one of those eee things, and have decided that i would need to add windows for my purposes.
whilst browsing i came across this by packard bell.

id appreciate anyone with any knowledge casting an eye over it to see if in some way its glaringly crap, cos i dont really know much about processors etc.


for comparison sake,
the asus 4gb 512ram is about £240 plus xp £60
the packard bell is £349 with xp and the bigger hard drive. and i think free virus software but that could be free anyway i suppose.

any other options of machines more than welcome.

its mainly gonna be used for browsing, the odd word document, emails and listening to internet radio when im away working. so mostly its just cos the internet on my phone is too limiting.

 

[ahofle]

I certainly couldn't imagine surfing the web on a 800x480 screen. 

[quarterback]

ive been considering one of those eee things, and have decided that i would need to add windows for my purposes.
whilst browsing i came across this by packard bell.

This is basically the cloudbook which will be released in the US on Friday.  Here it's $399 and will come with gOS installed instead of XP.   It will be sold at WalMart and, IMO, will be the eee's first big competition.   I'm probably going to buy one instead of an eee unless something dissuades me.  If you read the eee forums, the 5 biggest complaints about the cloudbook are
 (1) it's ugly
 (2) the eee looks better
 (3) the cloudbook looks crappy
 (4) my eee is soooo much better looking and
 (5) The standard hard drive is going to make it so much slower than my eee... which, I might say,  is also so much cooler looking than the cloudbook.

We'll see when the first Cloudbook reviews roll in.

[NiN^_^NiN]

I would reccomend the EEE pc i use mine for surfring the net all over the house and the 800x480 screen isnt a problem for all the websites i got to you can make the screensize bigger its just 800 x 480 is the native resolution and looks the best.

The cloud book isn't worth it the eee pc looks better lol joking

I don't know much about the cloud book but i would say see if you can try out an eee pc yourself and a cloudbook i know it might not help that much as they dont have XP on them as stock in the shops but it will let you see if you like the size of the keyboard.

After i installed a full xp install on my 4gb eee pc i had about 1gb left for programs and podcast etc but i just stream music and movies over the wifi and mame aswell and leave my eee pc free for programs.

The eee pc is popular cause its so small and you will take it anywhere you go but i would see what your needs are size wise so you want a small pc or do you want a normal sized laptop with a 15" screen? thats the question

[polaris]

ive just read something saying that the xs20 is really slow when you got to open an app for example saying it cant handle the xp. would that be down to the processor, or fact its a proper hard drive, from what everyones saying the eee is really fast, but have you upgraded to 2G of ram.
it seems to me their specs are the same but some reports claim the eee is faster.

for example ive read in the other thread that the eee boots windows in like 15 seconds, the easynote took over a minute.

what im asking is, is the asus faster and why

[NiN^_^NiN]

The asus is faster overall cause when i first put XP on the eee pc i somehow screwed up and put it on the usb HDD and it still booted in way less than 1min.

I don't know what the difference between thoese 2 pc's are but the eee pc it just very fast and im still using the 512mb ram i don't see any reason to upgrade right now as i havent had any problems what so ever

I would wait till u see the cloudbook boot xp on youtube and then compare that to the eee pc booting up xp on youtube its probably the better comparision

Id also look at both and try them out at a store then see which is faster on XP

[polaris]

cheers dude
along with what youve said ive seen some review saying it was hella slow with xp. think im heading toward the eee.

[NiN^_^NiN]

I'm glad i could help

i haven't seen or heard of this cloud book so i don't know what cpu or anything about it but the size of the eee pc is a fantastic and its why its so popular cause of being so light any easy to take anywhere i know on the eeeuser.com forums guys are taking them into the toilet with them lmao maybe its abit too portable 

I'm very tempted to get rid of my old VIA mini itx and use one for my carpc

Hell if i had the money id get one and make a mini bartop cocktail cab