Small Laptops

[Benji]

Ok well my £1000-ish Sony Viao decided to completely fook up recently and so there is no way I'm spending such money ever again on a laptop.

I literally do 3 things on a laptop: Internet, Microsoft Office and Football Manager.

So I'm looking to get one of the small ones, nice and convenient to take it to the uni library, just enough to power and support the three above things.

I've narrowed it down to:

-Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (I hate Dell but this is such a basic type of laptop it is hard to get it wrong)

-Asus Eee 1000H

-MSI Wind (personally I've never heard of it but has great reviews)

I've crossed the Acer and Hp off the list.

Has anyone had any experience with any of them and/or knows of any others I should look at.

Thanking you.

[the_bowman]

Firstly try Play.com - thay've got some good laptops cheapish, not overly powerful, but plenty powerful to run your stuff.

Also, I've tried an Asus Eee, and unless you're going to connect a keyboard, mouse and monitor to it it's really hard and fiddly to use - and so kind of defeats the point of being a laptop.

[Benji]

Firstly try Play.com - thay've got some good laptops cheapish, not overly powerful, but plenty powerful to run your stuff.

Also, I've tried an Asus Eee, and unless you're going to connect a keyboard, mouse and monitor to it it's really hard and fiddly to use - and so kind of defeats the point of being a laptop.

Thanks, yes I wasn't keen on the Eee looked a bit ugly and very cramped, te good thing about the Dell is that although small, it uses the most of everything there is whereas the Eee has like wastes of space around the screen and keyboard.

[DB11]

If you're getting Vista, regardless of what you run, make sure you have 1gb of RAM for Vista alone plus extra for your other programs otherwise it will be painfully slow.

If you plan on getting FM2009 you'll need a good graphics card for 3D mode.

[coale39]

If you're getting Vista, regardless of what you run, make sure you have 1gb of RAM for Vista alone plus extra for your other programs otherwise it will be painfully slow.

If you plan on getting FM2009 you'll need a good graphics card for 3D mode.

Tell me more. Or link me etc etc

[act smiley]

None of those midget things are going to be much good at Football Manager - its a relatively CPU-intensive and the Intel Atom processors in them are aimed at being low-power things for just general use, not anything that high-powered. It'd work, but would probably be a bit slow.

As for 3D mode, an Intel GMA would do it... badly. Its not a very good bit of kit, but its not a very flashy looking thing so it should be able to do it, even if it might be rather stuttery considering that those built-in Intel chips haven't been good enough for years.