Netbook or Notebook for around £300

[kasavien]

Hi all, as title really, what would be the best buy a netbook or a notebook, i'd want to use it for browsing and light word processing and some software development using Visual Studio Express possibly some other dev tools. Speed isn't a major issue within reason although i would like something small and portable so that i can take it travelling more easily next year so the netbook wins at this.

Anyway i look forward to hearing what people have to say

Thanks

Andy

[staffsMike]

Well the notebook would have to be a dual core to make it a sizeable improvement over the the 1.8 celerons that swamp the £300 crowd.

I would say if you actually intend on using it for a long period of time and typing/coding on it I would aim for the MSI wind.

I quite like the dell though
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...n-9_n10m0902~~

[kasavien]

I was thinking about the Samsung NC10 that's available soon on eBuyer, looks like a nice little netbook and the size of the hard drive looks good, I'd be able to take most of my essential mixes with me

[staffsMike]

yeah forgot about that one. Nice price, go for it

[Webby]

Yeah the samsung would probably get my money as well, might want to consider getting a second gig of RAM for it only going to cost you ~£11.50 so a worthwhile investment in my eyes.

[Mousemat]

I pre-ordered the Samsung NC10 from ebuyer a few days ago. It looks like much better value than the Wind when you factor in the 6-cell battery and the 160GB HDD.

I thought it was a bit daft that eBuyer sent me an out-of-stock message for a pre-order item though.