Geocaching Computer

[+William.Banfield]

Hi

 

A while ago i bought a acer aspire one a110, 512mb ram & 8gb ssd. I have found that this is no good for me. There was not enough ram and the hard drive was way to small. Because of this i will be selling it.

 

Does anyone have a good suggestion of what i should buy. i can spend a maximum of £200. It will need to be able to run Gsak, Memory map and possibly something that i can store my pictures on. It will need a big hard drive as i will have about 30gb of maps on it and all 30 available pocket queries. It also can not weigh more than 1.5kg as i will be carrying it around on all caching trips.

 

Any ideas would really help.

William.banfield

[+Turtle_Sask]

I just got a laptop and love it, it is the dell inspiron 15, you should look into it!

[+William.Banfield]

to expensive

[+William.Banfield]

preferably a netbook

[+Turtle_Sask]

try one of the lower dells then, they are all good.

[+bladesedge]

You'll find small netbooks with more RAM, a bigger HDD, better CPU, but you will also find they cost a LOT more than your cheap cheap netbooks.

 

We got a couple of small business grade netbooks last year for some of the bosses at work and even at wholesale rates they cos 4 times that of your cheap netbooks.

[the3gmen]

I got an Acer aspire 10.1 notebook for Christmas. 160 gb hard drive 1gb ram (upgradable to 2gb), and a 6 cell battery which gives me about 5 hours of use.

 

It was a refurbished machine and cost about $250 (150 pounds)

 

I am loving it.

 

I got it off of woot.com and have seen the deal come up one more time since I ordered mine. I would imagine that if you searched a little you could easily find it for less than 200 pound.

[aniyn]

Don't get a Dell. Proprietary hardware is the devil.

[+William.Banfield]

I know about dells. The acer was the first out of four dells. I will never buy one again.

[+rambrush]

I just got a asus ul80 4 gig ram 320 hard drive not the fastest on the block but works great. Around the 800 dollar mark. Runs window 7

[+currykev]

I'd suggest buying something with bigger ram and gb too.

[+Turtle_Sask]

Don't get a Dell. Proprietary hardware is the devil.

 

please do not listen to this fool, i have every other type of computer and dell is the best. i know this type of stuff, im a computer wizz

[+debaere]

Don't get a Dell. Proprietary hardware is the devil.

 

please do not listen to this fool, i have every other type of computer and dell is the best. i know this type of stuff, im a computer wizz

 

I have a Dell 10v netbook, and it is working out well for me. My wife also has one and she loves hers. Dell definitely isn't the best money can buy, but in my experience (current netbooks plus several notebooks from a past life) they are not a bad option.

 

To the OP, you may want to look into buying a used/older notebook. Also keep in mind for 200 pounds your options are extremely limited.

[+t4e]

there's endless supply of great Netbooks in yyour price range on Amazon UK, plus you get free shipping

 

here's a good one

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Netbook-8-9-i...4835&sr=1-3

 

i have ACER desktop and laptop and never had a problem, great product, i'll never buy Dell, HP or Sony because of the proprietary attributes

 

 

@Turtle_Sask self proclaimed computer wiz or do you work for Dell?

Edited January 23, 2010 by t4e

[+cw1710]

Don't get a Dell. Proprietary hardware is the devil.

 

please do not listen to this fool, i have every other type of computer and dell is the best. i know this type of stuff, im a computer wizz

 

I have a Dell 10v netbook, and it is working out well for me. My wife also has one and she loves hers. Dell definitely isn't the best money can buy, but in my experience (current netbooks plus several notebooks from a past life) they are not a bad option.

 

To the OP, you may want to look into buying a used/older notebook. Also keep in mind for 200 pounds your options are extremely limited.

Dell's are terrible and I would not buy another one. They are ok starting out but overall they are made of cheap parts that will break and they are hardwired so that you cannot upgrade very much if, at all. You might be able to add a little RAM but thats about it. They do this so that you can not upgrade it long and you have to buy another. Gateways are the same. Newegg.com is the best site on the web for computer related purchases.

[+narcissa]

I have a Dell Inspiron 1420, and I love it. I've had it for two years, and the warranty just ran out. I had some issues with it before the warranty expired, and Dell was great about getting it repaired. I shipped it to their Toronto repair centre, and had it back within three days.

 

They have some great little notebook computers now that are very small and portable. I think my next computer will be one of their cute little 10" ones.

[+bladesedge]

I fix computers for a living. No one brand of computer is more likely to break than any other - its all relative to the number of each brands of computer out there. We have even had 'non-proprietory' computers in - however if bought through stores these tend to be full of cheap parts.

 

The true difference between computers is the combination of parts that have gone into it. Meaning, if you want a good fast computer you have to have the right motherboard, CPU, graphics card and RAM combo. Upping the RAM maybe cheap - but if the CPU is low spec, then the extra RAM can go to waste.

 

Moral of the story - buy quality.

[+cw1710]

I fix computers for a living. No one brand of computer is more likely to break than any other - its all relative to the number of each brands of computer out there. We have even had 'non-proprietory' computers in - however if bought through stores these tend to be full of cheap parts.

 

The true difference between computers is the combination of parts that have gone into it. Meaning, if you want a good fast computer you have to have the right motherboard, CPU, graphics card and RAM combo. Upping the RAM maybe cheap - but if the CPU is low spec, then the extra RAM can go to waste.

 

Moral of the story - buy quality.

Moral of the story - build your own

[+bladesedge]

I fix computers for a living. No one brand of computer is more likely to break than any other - its all relative to the number of each brands of computer out there. We have even had 'non-proprietory' computers in - however if bought through stores these tend to be full of cheap parts.

 

The true difference between computers is the combination of parts that have gone into it. Meaning, if you want a good fast computer you have to have the right motherboard, CPU, graphics card and RAM combo. Upping the RAM maybe cheap - but if the CPU is low spec, then the extra RAM can go to waste.

 

Moral of the story - buy quality.

Moral of the story - build your own

 

Good luck building your own netbook

[+bittsen]

I do pretty good with my Toshiba Satellite. It's a couple years old now but it's still going strong.

 

I thought about getting a netbook for its size but the one that I tried was so slow it made me want to cry.

[+Chrysalides]

With the criteria the OP gave:

 

Under 200 GBP (and presumably purchased in the UK)

30 GB for maps + other stuff

Able to run GSAK (implying Windows OS - I have no experience with GSAK under Wine)

Under 1.5kg (3.5 lb)

 

I can't think of anything brand new that'll fit the budget.

[+William.Banfield]

I think I have found what I'm looking for. Asus eee pc 1001ha. 160gb hard drive, 1gb ram xp home. Right on my budget

[+Chrysalides]

I think I have found what I'm looking for. Asus eee pc 1001ha. 160gb hard drive, 1gb ram xp home. Right on my budget

I stand corrected Hope it works out.

[+rambrush]

Great to hear you have settled on a Asus