Refurbished Acer netbooks are worth a look

If you’re really short of cash but still want the benefits of a netbook, then you might like to take a look at a refurbished netbook. Dabs is a well respected retailer of new netbooks, but also has a great line in Acer refurbs which have been serviced and checked out to make sure they’re [...]

Do you use a netbook case or cover?

Now the idea of a netbook like the Samsung NC10 (my favourite netbook) is that it’s small and light and portable and you can just sling it into your backpack/handbag and take it anywhere with you. So that’s exactly what I do. I’ve got this great Prada handbag that’s big enough for everything I need [...]

How to connect your netbook to the internet (no jargon!)

People often get confused about how to connect their netbooks (or laptops) to the internet. It’s the same for cheap netbooks or expensive netbooks - you can connect pretty much all netbooks to the internet in four ways…. And it’s really easy once you get past the jargon.
1 - Wired netbook connection using your home [...]

Samsung NC20 netbook

The Samsung NC20 is a larger netbook (mini notebook) for those who want something bigger than the award winning NC10 netbook.

Samsung’s market leader the NC10 netbook was so successful that the company had trouble improving on it.
So they made it bigger.
The screen increased from 10.2 inches to 12.1 inches, and the already great keyboard is [...]

Windows 7 could be good news for cheap netbooks

Well we’ve tested the Release Candidate (provisional version ) of Windows 7 for you to see how it compares with with Windows XP on a cheap netbook, and amazingly enough it’s just as fast!
Yes we took our favourite cheap netbook, the Samsung NC10 already loaded with Windows XP and installed Windows 7 Release candidate on [...]