New 11.6 ultra portable

[starfish_001]

I'm looking for a small light laptop more powerful than a net book but in the range £400- 500


My shortlist


Dell Inspiron M101z - reasonable battery and perf
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11 - best perf and poor battery
Acer Aspire 1810TZ-413G25n - slower with good battery
ASUS Eee PC 1215N


Any opinions or other good options

[Adz]

Acer Travelmate 8371:

Intel® Core 2 Duo 1.4Ghz (ULV SU9400, 3 MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
13.3" Acer CineCrystal, 1366x768 HD, High Brightness, LED Backlit
4GB DDR3 1066MHZ
320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 450/600
5-in-1 card reader (SD//MS/MS-Pro/MMC/xD-Picture card™)
3x USB 2.0 ports
Webcam
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
Fingerprint Reader
Kensington lock slot
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
8 Hrs+ Battery

Price: ~£340

It's about £100 below your price range, its slim and fairly light (1.7kg), and it destroys netbooks in every department. The only thing this model lacks is HDMI. If you do want to spend that £100 extra, buy a SSD and fit it in for a nice performance boost, thats what I did in mine. :lol::thumb:

[Korlus]

One thing to note there is that while it will be a lot faster than a Netbook, it's still not that fast. Still, it's not all that bad for a laptop, and it's very cheap.

[Mr. Grapes]

which CPU in the thinkpad edge are you looking at? i3 or athlon neo II? as the i3 version will have better perf and better battery (according to the last website i saw a review on can't remember which ATM)

and of course the eee will have the worst CPU performance (Atom) and best graphics (nVidia 9400m)

[Adz]

One thing to note there is that while it will be a lot faster than a Netbook, it's still not that fast. Still, it's not all that bad for a laptop, and it's very cheap.

Mine in total cost me £440 with the SSD, and you are right it isnt fast but it is certainly not slow. It handles Win 7 64 bit flawlessy and runs games quite well on low/medium settings.

3d mark 2006 score: ~3200

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[Cetera]

I would never reccommend anyone a Dell branded PC unless your a business customer.

Asus netbooks are often not the best in terms of performance but often boast a large battery capacity giving up to 11hours.

For a more powerful netbook I would reccommend the Acer Aspire One 752 (or later models) that pack the Celeron processor instead of the Atom. Very compact and pretty stylish. Along with Acer being an excellent manufacturer.

Can pick these models up for around £250-£350