Ultraportable under £800.

[Energize]

I'm looking for a laptop with a screen 13.3" or less, 5 hours battery life and lightweight design, no os required. Don't really have any specific hardware requirements, just as long as it's fast.

Sony laptops look good, but are too expensive and everything is a complete rip off, £90 for a replacement ac adaptor, no thanks.

The Dell Xps seems ok, not sure what the battery life is like though with the 9-cell battery. Though as usual dell are a complete rip off for customisation, £90 for an extra 100MHz what planet are they on!?

Ocuk custom built ones are fantastic specs for the price, however the weight and battery life aren't listed, nor does it say it has built in wifi, and I don't know what the build quality is like. Plus they are very chunky for such a size laptop.

 

[Hugest_UK]

Hi,

Take a look at the Samsung Q210 12.1" has the following specs you can pick it up for about £650

Intel Core 2 Duo (P8400) 2.26 GHz Processor
3072 MB(1x2048MB + 1 x 1024MB) Memory
320 GB Hard Drive
12.1 inch WXGA TFT display
DVD Super-Multi Dual Layer
Ethernet 10/100/1000
Wireless LAN: 802.11a/b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
Webcam
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
nVIDIA GeForce Go 9200M GS 256MB GDRR3

Battery life is also excellent at up to 5 hours if your just web browsing. I was recently looking at getting one of these myself.

Cheers,
Hugest

 

[b (thats it)]

I got the dell Inspiron 13 a few weeks ago and I've been very impressed. Its is very small, though the 9 cell battery sticks out a fair bit, great keyboard (best I've used on a laptop), and great battery life from what I've found. Can get up to 7-8.5 hours word processing and other similar tasks (wifi turned off) and 5-6 hours watching movies off a portable hard drive (Laptop has a 250 gig hard drive, but I haven't bothered to transfer much over). The one I got has a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, nothing amazing but performance in vista seems quite snappy. I upgraded it to 4GB of ram which probably helps. The only really resource intensive tasks I've done on it is EVE Online, which runs alright, I've used several clients at once and it has been usable. Integrated video is kind of meh, but the battery life was more important for me than performance. It should still run older games alright.


My only complant is that the track pad is a bit small, but even that hasn't given me much trouble. All in all very happy with it.

Price was about 1.3k canadian (including a year of the upgraded warranty) so about 700 pounds I guess.