Orange Fujitsu amilo netbook gets admiring glances

I’ve always had an eye for fashion, and that’s why the Fujitsu amilo netbook first appealed to me, with its sleek lines and custom colours.

So I was particularly pleased when the other day, sitting over my skinny latte in the local coffee shop and catching up on my emails on my netbook , this guy interrupted me and said he couldn’t help admiring the great orange netbook I was using. It might have been a great pick up line, but he seemed genuinely interested. And once he’d got over the colour (a clip on cover, so it was blue yesterday!) he was truly wowed by the non-glare screen.

Most cheap netbook screens these days have that glossy finish that makes them ultra reflective but the Fujitsu has this great non-reflective screen which means you can use it in any lighting conditions.

The screen and the orange cover made his own cheap netbook look dowdy, though you do have to be a bit flamboyant to get away with bright colours on your netbook. But I’m not as simple as you may think, so I wonder what he’ll do when he tries to contact my netbook on the Skype address I gave him and finds he’s talking to the local wheely bin cleaners instead!!

see you later

Sarah

Review of Asus Eee 901 netbook

The best cheap netbook for travellers and the outdoors.

The Asus Eee 901 is a cheap netbook that comes in two versions – the first with Linux and 20GB of solid state disk storage, and the second with Windows XP and 12GB of solid state storage.

I tested the Linux version, and though I’m more familiar with Windows, the user interface was very easy to pick up.

The Eee 901 netbook is a well-built solid little machine, so would be great for travellers and those who just want to stick it in their backpack as they travel the globe – or just travel to work or college. And Asus supply it complete with a great little padded travel pouch for extra protection, so you don’t even need to buy a separate case.

The three USB ports worked fine with my external hard drive for upping and downloading files, and I particularly liked the SD card slot for extra  storage. I  plugged in the card from my digital SLR to view photos on the brilliant screen and they looked superb, full of detail..

The Eee 901 comes with wifi of course, but also with bluetooth which I found very helpful.

But the feature that really blew me away was the battery life. I took the 901 about with me for a week and regularly got over 7 hours battery life on a single charge. For such an incredibly light cheap netbook, this is just fabulous.

Some other netbooks I’ve tried – and I’ve tested quite a few – have a battery life that made me unwilling to take them too far from a power point, but with the Asus Eee 901 I had every confidence that I’d take it out fully charged in the morning and it would still be going strong that night.

This great battery life, rugged design and sheer usability make the Asus Eee 901 our recommended cheap laptop for the traveller or those with an outdoor lifestyle.

Buy it, you won’t be disappointed.

Acer Aspire One netbook rules in cheap netbooks war

Acer expects to sell over 13 million Aspire netbooks in the US in 2009, along with 8 million to the EU. The cheap but powerful Acer Aspire One series has been a roaring success and these netbooks have been falling off the shelves as fast as Acer could supply them.

In these credit crunch days, with the recession being felt worldwide, it makes sense to get as much bang for your buck as possible and the Acer Aspire One series netbook gives just that. It’s cheap, but looks anything but cheap and performance is up there with the best of them.

The Aspire One is compact, and offers the choice of 16GB flash memory for outstanding lightness and battery life , or 160GB Hard Disk for the ultimate in storage when you need to take masses of video and your whole MP3 collection with you to the far flung corners of the world.

So if cheapness and lightness is all, you have the A110 model, but for just a little extra you get all the oomph of the big disk A150 netbook.

I for one wouldn’t be without my Aspire One netbook, and it goes everywhere with me. Cheap, yes but only in price.

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