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Top 10 Netbooks For Going Back To School

Fantastic Netbooks — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:58:10 +0000

Rounding up the top 10 netbooks for students heading back to school or off to University – we’re looking for lightweight and stylish netbooks whilst making sure they have great battery life and are made from strong stuff – does such a netbook exist?

I know it feels like the summer holidays have only just started and there is a long time before school starts again in September. You don’t want to think about it but you need a netbook to help you with your school work when the new term starts. Or perhaps you are heading off to college or university in a month or two and need a portable computer for writing essays, reports and conducting research.

So if you are thinking about a new netbook to start the new school year in September then I hope this roundup of the best 10 netbooks will be as welcome as an A+ mark in your first test.

I reckon that the main features to look out for when choosing a netbook for a student at school, college or university are the following:

Good battery life – having a decent battery life is essential if the netbook is going to be used throughout the day, not always where there is a power supply close to hand.
Lightweight – nobody wants to carry a heavy laptop around with them all day. Having a lightweight netbook will ease the burden and have you skipping between lectures, lessons or lunch.
Good value for money, i.e. cheap – whoever is paying for the netbook will appreciate it if you get a lot of netbook for your (their) money.
Good design – nobody wants a netbook that looks like a brick or an old Amstrad from the 1980s.
Comfortable keyboard – if the netbook is going to be used properly to write essays, reports, conduct research and prepare for exams then having a comfortable keyboard to type on is pretty important.
Screen – we’re not so concerned about having a screen that looks good when playing DVDs whereas something you can view when outside or under bright fluorescent lights means that matte screens rather than glossy screens would probably be better.
Build quality – it is fair to say that a netbook carried around a school or college is possibly going to get knocked about a bit. This means a flimsy netbook will not be much good so we are looking for one with some sturdiness and good build quality.

So now we have an idea of what we are looking for, let’s have a look at the top 10 netbooks.

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Asus Eee PC 1005PE – Review Roundup

Fantastic Netbooks — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:46:26 +0000

Asus 1005PE offers fantastic battery life promising all day computing

The Asus Eee PC 1005PE was one of the first netbooks to hit the market using the Atom N450 processor, which promises 20 percent less power consumption. The 1005PE is very similar to the 1005HA but offers better battery life, a bigger hard drive and a better keyboard. What did our featured reviewers make of it?

For the best deals on the Asus Eee PC 1005PE and other Asus netbooks, view our dedicated Asus deals section.

Asus 1005PE Good Points:

1. Battery Life – the 1005PE has a Lithium Ion 6 cell battery reported to last up to 14 hours

The Asus 1005PE is one of the first netbooks to use the new Intel Atom N450 processor, which promises a 20 percent decrease in power consumption. Laptopmag was very appreciative of the fact that the 1005PE will last up to 10.5 hours on a single charge, in fact they got 10 hours and 36 minutes out of it, which is the best from a Windows 7 netbook with a 6 cell battery. Other don’t come close including the Toshiba NB205 (8 hours and 51 minutes), Nokia Booklet 3G (8 hours and 24 minutes – when on WiFi).

CNet ran the 1005PE for 8 hours and 25 minutes on their grueling brain drain test and they were very impressed by that figure.

FN – Everyone’s happy with the battery life that you can get out of an N450 processor and 8 hours on the brain drain test is pretty good going for the 1005PE.

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Netbook Offers – Friday, 7th May 2010

Fantastic Netbooks — Sat, 08 May 2010 11:40:31 +0000

This great Sony Vaio VPMC11M1E/B netbook has a huge £100 off in our netbook deals

Our Netbook Deals has been updated this week with another 4 great offers on top netbooks.

There is a huge reduction of £100 on a Sony Vaio W-Series netbook so if you have always wanted a Sony Vaio but find them a bit too expensive then this may be your chance to grab a bargain. The Sony Vaio VPCM11M1E/B has an Atom N450 processor, Windows 7 Starter and a 250Gb hard drive. Go to Netbook Deals.

One of the best netbooks around at the moment, the Asus Eee PC 1005PE, also has 7% off and so can be picked up for a good price right now. The Asus 1005PE also has an N450 processor, Windows & Starter and a 250Gb hard drive but packs a whopping 11 hour battery life. Go to Netbook Deals.

Don’t want to pay for a netbook? Well then, you can get a free Dell 1011 netbook with Windows 7 Starter, Atom N450 processor, 160Gb hard drive and is in a lovely red colour. This netbook is free with Vodafone mobile broadband for just £25 per month. Go to Netbook Deals.

Also take a look at the latest voucher codes for further reductions including 3% off all orders at PC World, 10% of all hard drives and 10% of all printers. Go to the netbook deals to pick up the codes.

You can also sign up to our weekly netbook deals e-newsletter, which will be delivered to your inbox each week. If you are worried about the safety of our email address then please don’t, we will not sell or pass your email address onto anyone else.

If you have any feedback on our Netbook Deals section then please let us know in the comments, it would be great to hear from you.

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Best 45 Netbooks Ranked

Fantastic Netbooks — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:43:57 +0000

We’ve added another 5 new netbooks to our netbook rankings to give us a total of the 45 best netbooks plus we have given the section a bit of a tidy up in anticipation of some new netbooks rankings coming along soon.

After not updating the netbook rankings since September we thought it was about time the tables were updated plus we’ve revamped the section slightly in readiness for the addition of one or two new netbook rankings, which will make their appearance in the next few weeks.

This means that we now have separate pages for the Overall Score Rankings, the Lightest Netbooks and the netbooks with the Longest Battery Life and each table has been updated to include the full set of 45 netbooks.

The following new netbook models have been added this time around to build our chart up to 45 netbooks in total:

HP Mini 311 – read our review roundup of this netbook
Lenovo S12 Ion
Asus Eee PC 1201N
MSI Wind U135
Asus Eee PC 1005PE

Only 2 of these netbooks made it into the top 20. Are netbook reviews getting harsher than they used to be? Click through to the netbook rankings overall score chart to find out where they placed. One of the new additions is also way down near the bottom so keep your eye out for that one.

What this means is that there are several golden oldies still at the top of the rankings and you can pick some of these up for an absolute steal in our Netbook Deals section.

There will be more coming soon so keep your eyes peeled.

Are these netbook rankings tables helpful to you? What improvements or changes would you like to see?

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