** HP Compaq Mini 311c-1010SA Intel Atom N270 ION 11.6" Netbook @ £314.99 inc VAT **

Tinders said:
Does anyone know if this will play any basic games such as Football manager 2009? and whats the battery life like 3 hours plus?
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I'd like to know more info on this as well. Football Manager is CPU intensive so I guess it will run but not particularly well. I think I'll end up getting an Asus Timeline 3810 which has a Core 2 Solo CPU. Compared to the Atom, it's a better CPU and should cope a bit better with Football Manager.
 
molinari said:
I'd like to know more info on this as well. Football Manager is CPU intensive so I guess it will run but not particularly well. I think I'll end up getting an Asus Timeline 3810 which has a Core 2 Solo CPU. Compared to the Atom, it's a better CPU and should cope a bit better with Football Manager.
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I have just bought a similar laptop (PB Butterfly) and it is faster than the NC20 I used to have, the NC20 was using a via chip which was around level performance with the atom.

The Core 2 Solo is 800FSB, 3MB cache and 1.4GHz (1.2GHz idle), it is faster than an atom but I wouldn't be expecting loads of performance, it's still a single core 1.4GHz at the end of the day.

That said though, I can play Quake 3 real nice on it and can play HL2 on low/medium settings, something that was not happening on the NC20. I can also watch 720p video as long as it has been downloaded and played in media player, though the Core 2 Solo still isn't powerful enough to run Youtube HD without some frame skipping.
 
Tinders said:
Does anyone know if this will play any basic games such as Football manager 2009? and whats the battery life like 3 hours plus?
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I get 4 hours running intensive things (games, for example), 5 hours video and 6 hours general use.

dbmzk1 said:
How are you finding the glossy screen?
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Absolutely fine, it isn't a reflective as a MBP and goes brighter so it's pretty usable.

P.S. No RAM yet, damn RM!
 
^^ thanks


so whats your hand on heart impression Raikiri, i have been holding off a netbook till ION time, or so i told myself... now its here...but with atom not AMD and is only dx9...

i was bidding on a £250 Sony VGN-TZ11XN/B U7500.. but im inbetween now!
 
Very usuable and can only see it getting better as CUDA acceleration is implemented into more things (Flash bing a prime candidate). As far as netbooks go it's by far the best I have used.
 
I see its now available on OcUK to buy. The specs are listed as:

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1. ION LE or Full ION?

2. Noted as DDR2 RAM?

3. I thought Bluetooth was extra?

I'll ask again if anyone knows if the Intel 5300 WiFi card can be fitted in this?

Many thx before I purchase :)
 
scaramonga said:
I see its now available on OcUK to buy. The specs are listed as:

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1. ION LE or Full ION?

2. Noted as DDR2 RAM?

3. I thought Bluetooth was extra?

I'll ask again if anyone knows if the Intel 5300 WiFi card can be fitted in this?

Many thx before I purchase :)
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Ive seen the wifi car q asked on various other forums, what advantage would that offer over the std installed card?
 
Is there anything in this price with same specs but thinner at all? I want this HP but will get another if there is a thinner brand out :P
 
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