I'm going to buy the wife a laptop for Mother's day...last minute, I know.
I don't stay current or know what the best laptops are.
She wants one of the mini ones.
I don't want to spend a ton of cash, but I also don't want to go cheapo and get a POS that will break in a year. And she isn't a Mac person.
Any suggestions?
A Samsung N145 is a decent little netbook for under £200. Maybe worth sticking some more memory in though based on only coming with 1GB as standard.
I'm not well versed on the netbooks, but if you want a notebook I would suggest Lenovo (bought out ibm's notebook division.) You can get them for about $400 for base model on sale at local stores.
Amazon have this one running in the UK for £299
Lenovo Ideapad S205 11.6 inch Notebook (AMD E350, RAM 2GB, HDD 250GB, Windows 7 Home Premium) - Black
AMD Fusion E350
Dual Core 1.6GHz
Radeon HD 6310 Graphics
11.6" Glossy Screen
1366x768 Screen Resolution
2GB DDR3 (1066mhz)
250GB HDD (5400rpm)
3x USB 2.0
VGA
HDMI
Bluetooth
WiFi N
Ethernet 10/100
Card Reader
Webcam
Kensington Lock
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
6 Cell Battery
1.35KG
You can take it up to 8gb on the memory with 512mb dedicated graphics - HD screen. Small and light with a bit o uumph
I second the Ideapad. I'm after a Thinkpad X120E myself, which has a similar spec inside the old X100 chassis. Unfortunately Lenovo aren't selling them in Europe though. :(
The Toshiba laptops always seem to be well made. Sturdy.
Thanks everyone!
To late to this one but for anyone else looking at laptops I second Toshiba, the Tosiba laptops we have purchased over the years have outstripped the rest completly one is still going over 6 years and 2 dell laptops later. The only issue with Toshiba is the placements of input sockets especially usb ports, never enough and always stupidly placed.
So....what'd ya get her?