Advice on 'mini' laptop

[Newhythebirder]

Hi,

I was looking at some of these really small laptops today - at around £250-£300. Happy to spend up to £500 but I don't want a full size laptop really. I want something that I can use for photoshop/web-surfing mainly. Any advice on what are the best ones to go for or are they not powerful enough for these applications? Apologies for the ignornace!

Steve

[Ukwildlifeo]

Originally Posted by Newhythebirder

Hi,

I was looking at some of these really small laptops today - at around £250-£300. Happy to spend up to £500 but I don't want a full size laptop really. I want something that I can use for photoshop/web-surfing mainly. Any advice on what are the best ones to go for or are they not powerful enough for these applications? Apologies for the ignornace!

Steve

the small £300ish laptops are fine for web surfing and typing etc, but photoshop, especially when editing large or multiple picture files really needs a more powerful computer. The problem wih laptops is the graphics card tends to be built in to the motherboard and to be less powerful, and when it comes to editing photos the more powerful the better. hope thats helpful

[Lancashire Lad]

If "mini" is your real priority, I would definitely have a look at the Advent 4211

This ultraportable laptop has a 10.1 inch screen, 1gig ram, Wi-fi & Bluetooth, comes with an 80 gig hard drive and windows xp home SP3 (Also has microsoft works etc. pre-loaded).

It has topped the ultraportable chart in PC Advisor magazine for several months now, despite strong opposition from recent machines from Hewlett Packard, Acer, & Asus etc.

A friend of mine bought one of these about two months ago and rates it highly. He doesn't do very intensive multi-photo manipulation, but uses Paintshop Pro, (and an enormous amount of music editing) without any problem.

It sells for £279.00, and is Advent badged, but is exactly the same machine as the MSI Wind, which sells for £329.00.

Just found a revue of the machine at " TINYURL.COM/60LAFQ "

Regards
Mike.

EDIT - Just one thing to bear in mind with all these ultraportables - they don't have inbuilt CD/DVD Drives, so you would need a remote drive to be able to load your software etc.