Laptop Vs Netbook... Help!

[Sir Sarcy]

Right, myself and the little lady (God i feel so big now, hope she doesn't see it) want to get a new computer as our Laptop is on its last legs.

Now really we use it for surfing the web, she saves a lot of pictures and things and i do my work and footy club finances on it so what i want to know is.....

Will a netbook be able to handle opening up some large spreadsheets and picture files or should i stop being cheap and cough up an extra £200 for a new laptop?

Any advice would be much appreciated

 

[tinx]

I have a netbook and it would be able to handle what you want to do but storage is always an issue for pictures and the screen is smaller. I always recomment a netbook as an extra pc not your only one.

 

[Goodfella]

You can get netbooks now with 120gb of storage, runnining windows xp with 1gb ram. plenty for what you want to do.

 

[El Presidente]

Samsung NC10 won the recent notebook test in PC Pro magazine. 1 gig ram, 160 gig hard drive, and choice of black, blue or white! £307.

 

[northstandnorth]

staples E-mailed me about a toshiba laptop for less than £300,great make and price

link here
Staples.co.uk Your business partner for Office Supplies, furniture and technology.

 

[scotjem]

Samsung NC10 won the recent notebook test in PC Pro magazine. 1 gig ram, 160 gig hard drive, and choice of black, blue or white! £307.

What did they say about battery life ? It claims to be 7 hours - but what sort of usage is that based on ?

 

[Hove Lagoonery]

You can get netbooks now with 120gb of storage, runnining windows xp with 1gb ram. plenty for what you want to do.

That amount of storage wouldn't ruin XP
But you could always add extra removable storage if required. But you can't easily add to the 1 GB RAM; the latest PCs have 4 GB, not far off the amount of

storage​

my old PC has!