I'm looking to buy a new media device. I will mainly be using it for watching films/browsing the internet/listening to music, pretty basic tasks for when I'm travelling and out the house.
My budget is around £250 (I'll go up to £300 if it's worth it) and at that price I basically have two options, to either get the Advent Vega or a refurbished netbook/laptop. Problem is I can't decide what to get.
The Advent Vega seems awesome for the price and with the modded rom I can play any video file and the battery life is very good.
But then for roughly the same price I can get a refurbished laptop with suprisingly good specs, I've narrowed it down to a few netbooks/laptops:
Netbooks:
PACKARD BELL DOT SE-710UK - £270:
Processor - Intel® Atom™ Processor N550, 1.5 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache
Memory - 1gb ddr2
Screen - 10.1 inch @ 1024 x 600 led
HDD - 250gb
With 3 usb 2.0, wifi, memory card reader, 1.3 webcam, 7.5 hours battery life, windows 7
ACER Aspire One Happy Netbook - £260 with the same specs as the packard bell but has 1gb ddr3 and has android OS built in aswell as windows 7
Laptops:
ADVENT Modena M200 - £260
Processor - dual core celeron T3300, 2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 Cache
Memory - 2 GB DDR3
Screen - 15.6 inch @ 1366 x 768 led
HDD - 400gb
With 3 usb 2.0, wifi, memory card reader, 1.3 webcam, 2 hours battery life, windows 7, dvd rw
HP G56-130SA - £300
Processor - dual core celeron T4500- 2.30 GHz- 800 MHz FSB- 1 MB L2 Cache
Memory - 4 GB DDR2
Screen - 15.6 inch @ 1366 x 768 led
HDD - 500gb
With 3 usb 2.0, wifi, memory card reader, 1.3 webcam, 3 hours battery life, windows 7 64 bit, dvd rw
Advent Vega seems perfect but for the same price I could get a powerful netbook or laptop. But laptops have very low battery life (around 3 hours) compared to the netbooks (7 hours) and Vega (10 - 16 hours).
I do like the hdd space of the netbooks and laptops though, but thats not a big issue. But the Vega only has 4GB memory and a 32GB card will cost me £40+ so it'll push the price to £300..
So can you give me some advice as to what would be better for me or if you know any other devices which would be better?
Thanks
My budget is around £250 (I'll go up to £300 if it's worth it) and at that price I basically have two options, to either get the Advent Vega or a refurbished netbook/laptop. Problem is I can't decide what to get.
The Advent Vega seems awesome for the price and with the modded rom I can play any video file and the battery life is very good.
But then for roughly the same price I can get a refurbished laptop with suprisingly good specs, I've narrowed it down to a few netbooks/laptops:
Netbooks:
PACKARD BELL DOT SE-710UK - £270:
Processor - Intel® Atom™ Processor N550, 1.5 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache
Memory - 1gb ddr2
Screen - 10.1 inch @ 1024 x 600 led
HDD - 250gb
With 3 usb 2.0, wifi, memory card reader, 1.3 webcam, 7.5 hours battery life, windows 7
ACER Aspire One Happy Netbook - £260 with the same specs as the packard bell but has 1gb ddr3 and has android OS built in aswell as windows 7
Laptops:
ADVENT Modena M200 - £260
Processor - dual core celeron T3300, 2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 Cache
Memory - 2 GB DDR3
Screen - 15.6 inch @ 1366 x 768 led
HDD - 400gb
With 3 usb 2.0, wifi, memory card reader, 1.3 webcam, 2 hours battery life, windows 7, dvd rw
HP G56-130SA - £300
Processor - dual core celeron T4500- 2.30 GHz- 800 MHz FSB- 1 MB L2 Cache
Memory - 4 GB DDR2
Screen - 15.6 inch @ 1366 x 768 led
HDD - 500gb
With 3 usb 2.0, wifi, memory card reader, 1.3 webcam, 3 hours battery life, windows 7 64 bit, dvd rw
Advent Vega seems perfect but for the same price I could get a powerful netbook or laptop. But laptops have very low battery life (around 3 hours) compared to the netbooks (7 hours) and Vega (10 - 16 hours).
I do like the hdd space of the netbooks and laptops though, but thats not a big issue. But the Vega only has 4GB memory and a 32GB card will cost me £40+ so it'll push the price to £300..
So can you give me some advice as to what would be better for me or if you know any other devices which would be better?
Thanks
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