Jobos Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 I've been asked to price up 5 netbooks. They need to run or be running Win 7 Pro so if I need to do a clean install of Windows I would like the drivers to be easily available. What do you recommend?
Haptic Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Hello Jobos, I would recommend the Dell Latitude 2120 netbook. It already comes with Windows 7 Pro 32 Bit and we sell lots of them into education. Most take the 6 cell battery option. Hope it helps. Chris.
SimpleSi Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Dell Latitude 2120 Maybe I'm wrong but isn't that a £500 "executive road warrior" device (or do you do a GREAT deal on them ) @OP Things change fast - I bought 9 Samsung NB150s before the holidays and they took Win7 Pro fine. I don't think drivers are the issue - get a few quotes from the suppliers in and then just check on that manufacturers website to make sure they are available (Which AFAICT they all are nowadays ) You should be able to get them in range of £200 to £250 (plus cost of Win Starter to Win7 Pro upgrade) Just check detail of spec to make sure that they don't do the ASUS trick last year of only having 1 headphone/mic socket - great job boys I hope the 20p hardware saving was worthwhile for you regards Simon
Haptic Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Around the £418 ex VAT with 3 Year Warranty delivered from us Si - thanks for asking. The thing is you will be well over £300 by the time you have done the above and still need to intall it and it will only have the 1 year warranty. I suppose it depends on the time vs money argument and I know both are tight for most in education currently! Chris
SimpleSi Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 I suppose it depends on the time vs money argument and I know both are tight for most in education currently! No - money is much much tighter than time (Well - it is at our end However,when an SMT member "needs" a new laptop as the old one is "too slow" then your time suddenly becomes much more precious and you can save it by buying them a brand new one - of course its usually much quiker to re-image their old one but lets not let the facts get in the way of a good yarn )
witch Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 I have Samsung NB30s in both of my schools - very good value - I think they are end of life but I am sure that there is a new version
john Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 I've just ordered a number of Samsung NC110s, look good and a great price on them Got a cracking deal on them with a 2 year warranty and accidental damage which IMHO is a must with kids touching them!
steveg Posted September 29, 2011 Posted September 29, 2011 Do you definately want netbooks? We started buying a lot of netbooks a couple of years ago, because of thier size, and the significant savings over a laptop. Now it seems there isn't anywhere near as much of a price difference - we're currently getting core i3 laptops with a 3 year warranty for £270ex Vat after cashback. You may well have a specific need for netbooks, but if it was just because they are cheaper then it's definately worth considering laptops again! Steve
Jobos Posted September 29, 2011 Author Posted September 29, 2011 Thanks everyone for the advice. Personally I wouldn't use a netbook if you gave it me, they are just too small for my liking but the HT requested netbooks because they are small and light weight. The HT in question runs a training school for new teachers and wants 5 new machines to road test before placing a large order next year. I understand these netbooks will be used by trainees who have a PC at home and only need something small to carry around as most of the work will be done on their home machine.
Jobos Posted September 30, 2011 Author Posted September 30, 2011 Quick question: How are the netbooks performing with only 1GB of memory and running Win 7 pro? I've got 40 Samsung N130's here which run fine with XP but I'm under the impression Win 7 needs more RAM and looking at the online stores I'm struggling to find any netbooks with more than 1GB. CPLTD recommendation comes with 2GB which is the only one I've found.
sted Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 Quick question: How are the netbooks performing with only 1GB of memory and running Win 7 pro? I've got 40 Samsung N130's here which run fine with XP but I'm under the impression Win 7 needs more RAM and looking at the online stores I'm struggling to find any netbooks with more than 1GB. CPLTD recommendation comes with 2GB which is the only one I've found. my experience of win7 on 1gb is it works but 2+ is better
laptopsandspares Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 I hear a lot of good things about the samsung & Dell netbooks JoBos, but then I here positive things about CP Ltd too so leaning toward their Dells might be worth considering. D
SimpleSi Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 I understand these netbooks will be used by trainees who have a PC at home and only need something small to carry around as most of the work will be done on their home machine. Ah What you need are small laptops - not netbooks Netbooks are not very good for "grown-ups" using them as work machines - they are great for pupils using them in class for 1 lesson at a time You want 11/12 or even 13 inch WS models Si
achedgy Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 I'd really recommend upping the ram to 2Gb if you want to run Windows 7, the other benefit to a netbook vs laptop is battery life, generally netbooks do much better on that front. Replaced a lot of laptops with netbooks in the schools i look after
Michael Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 The Toshiba NB500's are nice and good value too. There are just too many of them!
sonofsanta Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 We got 4 of these for our PE department to take registers on before the summer, they're a bargain: Acer Aspire One 522 10.1 inch Netbook (AMD Dual-Core Processor C-50, 1 GB RAM , 250 GB HDD, Windows 7 Starter 32-bit, up to 6 hours battery life) - Green: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories AMD Fusion, not the greatest CPU in the world but drives the display well, hooks up to projectors nicely, plays HD video beautifully, and best of all, screen on it is 1280x800 instead of 1024x600 - makes a hell of a difference. Just bought another one for our department so we can take AD with us when we go out to classrooms to fix something 1
SimpleSi Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 nd best of all, screen on it is 1280x800 instead of 1024x600 Well - this could make it the best netbook in the world ever - and at a proper netbook price (As long as the pupils can read it - but then again - its me thats got the poor eyesight - not them ) Si
SimpleSi Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 I'm under the impression Win 7 needs more RAM and looking at the online stores I'm struggling to find any netbooks with more than 1GB. More RAM has proved to reduce app disc thrashing in all previous Windows versions so more RAM is always good All my Win7 netbooks (about 20 so far) came with 1GB and work fine (as all new computers tend to do) but they can all take 2GB instead. And with memory being cheap as chips at the moment ( ) if your not strapped in the budget dept - just get a bunch of them at purchase time and do a wholesale swap. Si
MatthewL Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 I bought my Samsung NC10 two years ago with Windows XP on it, the first thing I did was up it to 2GB, its only £20 to do and makes all the difference. From experience Samsung seem to be the best netbook out there, not tried the newer ones but have looked at some of the other ones and I don't like them too much.
SimpleSi Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 the first thing I did was up it to 2GB and makes all the difference. How would you know then? Or maybe it was the 30th thing you did Si
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