3G mobile broadband on netbooks

What is 3G for netbooks?
If you’ve read my article on connecting your netbook to the net, you’ll know that 3G stands for 3rd generation, the latest mobile telephone network.
With 3G, you can connect your netbook wirelessly to the internet practically anywhere in the UK that you can use a mobile phone, and in many places [...]

How to use Wifi with netbooks

Wifi is everywhere in the news these days, but what can it do for you? This guide tells you all you need to know about using your netbook with wifi

Amazing netbook speakers

Have you ever thought of adding some speakers to your netbook to use  at home?
When I first got my Samsung NC10 netbook, I was so pleased with the sound quality - and surprised too I guess - that it never occurred to me to try some external speakers. Then one evening I was round at [...]

How to watch TV on your netbook

A great feature of netbooks that they don’t boast about is you can watch live TV on the move. We all know that you can watch downloaded videos as well as TV clips from Youtube, but did you know you can watch live TV on a netbook anywhere with internet access.

Top 3 coloured netbooks

Here at Cheap-Netbooks we get really tired of black netbooks and laptop computers. With dull, muddy colours they look like they’re designed to be carried by the army on night manoeuvres, rather than being fashionable, cheap computers.

Unboxing the Samsung NC10 netbook - watch the video

I’m so over the moon with my gleaming white Samsung NC10 netbook, that I’ve just got to spread the word. It’s a fabulous machine, looks really stylish, got a huge keyboard for those of you who are used to touch typing (or just have big fingers!) and is so easy to set up my cat [...]

Samsung NC20 netbook - thumbs down

Samsung have just updated their fabulous NC10 netbook with the NC20, but we think they needn’t have bothered

The only real difference from the NC10 is that the Samsung NC20 has a 12 inch screen instead of the 10.2 inch one of the NC10.
Now I’m not quite sure what Samsung think they’re doing here, as I’ve [...]

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (Linux)

Dell offer this fabulous lightweight netbook with Linux at a great price.

Dell are proud of the compactness of this fabulous netbook and it weighs in at around two and a quarter pound (1 kilo) for ultimate portability. Sporting a bright 8.9 inch crystal clear display, with 1024 x 600 pixels so you don’t miss any [...]

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook (Windows XP)

Dell knows computers, and this is the Dell  Netbook complete with Windows XP

Dell pride themselves on the compact dimensions and light weight of this fabulous cheap netbook. With its 8.9 inch crystal clear display, with all the detail you’d expect from 1024 x 600 pixels, it weighs about a kilo (or two and a quarter [...]