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B-Grade Maplin Minibook - £125/€160
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15-10-2008 8:44am#1
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You bought one? Pros / cons?
Yes bought one from the OP's posted link above, A nice little machine, about the same size as an A5 sheet of paper! It was packed perfectly, even still has the plastic protective packaging on the outside of the lid!
This is my first venture into the world of netbooks & Linux OS's so still finding my feet with it...but all good so far....bar trying to find / load an equivilent / suitable version of Adobe shockwave flash (for my Facebook poker addiction
)... any pointers there would be welcome cheers!!
Maplin were a bit slow in shipping but that was mainly down to it being my first transaction with them....You will have difficulties in getting any item shipped to any address that differs from your billing address on your credit card on your first order etc...Meh.. not bad but prefer an Advent 4211.
It's a bit lacking really.. solid state drive is the best thing about it but only 2GB, 128MB DDR RAM (:eek:), not a great resolution, in-ability to remove OS. Still, it's nice and light and will do the job nicely for the price!
Lacking.... I would say more basic then lacking but that's a good thing for me since as said above this is my first introduction to both netbooks & a Linux OS!!
I have to agree with your comment about the screen, my eyes are a little strained & the only other con I can think of at the moment is that the first charge for the battery will take a min of 6 hours to complete.... If I can think of anymore as I use it, I'll let you know.
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Ha.. don't get me wrong. It looks like a lovely tidy laptop. Just too basic for my needs.nowuckenfurries wrote: »Lacking.... I would say more basic then lacking but that's a good thing for me since as said above this is my first introduction to both netbooks & a Linux OS!!
How is the battery? Doesn't say whether it's 6 cell or 3 cell? Presume it's the latter.nowuckenfurries wrote: »the only other con I can think of at the moment is that the first charge for the battery will take a min of 6 hours to complete.... If I can think of anymore as I use it, I'll let you know.
I'd imagine the 32bit CPU speed means it's quite slow to startup.0 -
Ha.. don't get me wrong. It looks like a lovely tidy laptop. Just too basic for my needs.
How is the battery? Doesn't say whether it's 6 cell or 3 cell? Presume it's the latter.
I'd imagine the 32bit CPU speed means it's quite slow to startup.
No worries!
The battery is behind a plastic cover on the underneath of the machine, 2 screw hold the cover in place, its a "non descript" log battery pack with 2 wires leading to a clip to the mother board.. it doesn't mention cells but its a 2100mAh 7.4V...
Start up is not bad... 40 seconds.... quicker then my XP P4 laptop 0 -
I agree with most of what nowuckenfurries says.
Its a nice small compact lightweight device. It looks well and feels well made IMHO. The keys have a nice solid action. The only complaint I have about it physically is that the touchpad buttons are a bit clunky. I quite like the screen layout and don't really find the brightness a problem. I updated the kernel to 2.6 and added a few other patches also.
This device is obviously quite limited in what it can do. It comes with a full Office suite but in reality you would only ever use this PC for the most rudimentary of Office tasks. I upgraded (or downgraded depending on how you look at it) from a Nokia N770 so a large screen with a proper keyboard is fantastic. There seems to be a good few patches/mods/games about so I must load up on these.
One thing has me puzzled, though. Its supposed to have 2 Gb of storage. Yet in file manager, it says the total space is 1014 Mb
Oh yes, one last thing - anyone know if you can you explore a windows network with this device?. I'd like to access my network drive.0 -
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Basic but functional. It is reported that the buffer gets full if you are a fast typist. Hasn't happened to me with my 2 fingered typing, howeverwhats the word processor with it like? i could definitely do with something small, light and cheap with a semi decent battery and passable word processor for writing on the move.
BTW, no B-grades at the moment but the price has been reduced to £139. Use a voucher and the postage works out at only a few pounds.0 -
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I signed up for their newsletter so I get them emailed to me.
You get £3 off a £50 spend, £7 off a £100 spend etc.
I dunno if these vouchers will work but have a look at this: http://www.vouchercodes.com/vouchers/maplin.htm
Maplin have a rather annoying habit of applying VAT @ 21% for their Irish web customers rather than the UKs 17.5%
. I wonder do they send on the extra to Brian Lenehan.
The Minibook cost me a grand total of £125.31 inclusive of shipping, voucher and extra VAT.0 -
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Maplin have a rather annoying habit of applying VAT @ 21% for their Irish web customers rather than the UKs 17.5%. I wonder do they send on the extra to Brian Lenehan.
They just following the law, since there are VAT registered in Ireland, they must apply Irish VAT.
Any company which trades over a certain threshold must register for VAT, so if a UK/FR/DE/IT etc company does the required level on busines in ireland, they must pay the VAT here.0 -
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