Dell Mini 1012 Netbook (6 Cell,W7 Starter,BT,1.3MP Webcam,Colours) - €285 delivered

Basq

Works out at €285 (or thereabouts) delivered.. great value considering you get a 6 cell battery with it!

Available in plenty of colours too!

It's €65 less than the identical model on Dell.com, you get your choice of a couple of colours, and you get a 250GB HDD (as opposed to a 160GB HDD).


See range at Expansys

Technical Details
• Processors: Intel® AtomTM N450 Single Core, 1.66GHz, 512K L2 Cache
• Operating System: Genuine Windows® 7 Starter 32-Bit
• Memory: 1GB,DDR2,800MHZ capped at 667Mhz bus
• Chipset: Intel® NM10 Express
• Graphics: Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3150
• LCD Display: 10.1" (26 cm) WSVGA TrueLifeTM (1024 x 600)
• Audio and Speakers: Main Speakers (quantity) : 2 x 1.0Watt with 2 channel High Definition audio, Microphone – Integrated single analog
• Hard Drive: 250GB SATA HDD 2.5" (6 cm) 5400RPM
• Power: 6-cell 56Whr (up to 8hrs 44mins battery life)
• Camera: 1.3 MP Integrated Webcam
• Wireless: DellTM Wireless 1397 802.11g Half mini-card (standard on all configurations)
• Bluetooth: Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Internal (2.1) mini-card
• Interfaces / Ports: VGA, RJ45 10/100, 3 x USB, Headphone jack, Microphone jack, AC power in, 3-in-1 Flash Memory Reader compatible with Secure Digital (SD/SDHC) memory card, Multi-Media Card (MMC) memory stick (MS/MS Pro)
• Included Software: Power DVD 8.3, Microsoft Works 9.0 with Home and Student trial, Dell Dock 1.0, Dell Webcam Central, Dell Support Center 2.0, Dell Connect 2.1, Adobe Reader 9.0, Roxio Creator 10.3, PC Restore, Data Safe, Dell Welcome Center, Windows Live Search
• Weight: 1.37kg
• Dimensions (W x H x D): 268mm x 25.5mm - 32.8mm x 197mm

Dean820

I want something like this except maybe with 2GB of RAM. Where's the cheapest place to buy a notebook online?

Basq

Dean820 wrote: »

Where's the cheapest place to buy a notebook online?

There's no one place to be honest.. shop around with Amazon, Dabs, Elara etc.

Dean820 wrote: »

I want something like this except maybe with 2GB of RAM.

You can always upgrade the RAM on this but it does involve taking the chassis apart, lifting out the keyboard etc.

You'll be fairly hard pushed to find a netbook with 2GB's of RAM installed as standard. Put in a post on the Requests forum if you want any more information or links though.

Dean820

basquille wrote: »

There's no one place to be honest.. shop around with Amazon, Dabs, Elara etc.


You can always upgrade the RAM on this but it does involve taking the chassis apart, lifting out the keyboard etc.

You'll be fairly hard pushed to find a netbook with 2GB's of RAM installed as standard. Put in a post on the Requests forum if you want any more information or links though.

Yeah, I had heard its mostly 1GB the notebooks came with. I might take a chance on this one. How long this the 6 cell battery last for? I read on dell's website up to 9.5 hours!

shnaek

Hmmm. That looks interesting. I had been considering this:

http://www.dabs4work.ie/products/toshiba-t110-13h-cel-m-743-2gb-250-w7p-6P2Q.html

but the dell is a fair bit cheaper. Even though the Toshiba has it's advantages...

Basq

Dean820 wrote: »

Yeah, I had heard its mostly 1GB the notebooks came with. I might take a chance on this one. How long this the 6 cell battery last for? I read on dell's website up to 9.5 hours!

It would depend on usage.. don't know how serious I'd take 9.5 hours unless you simply had it on standby on the lowest brightness with feck all running.

But you'd easily get 4 - 5 hours heavy usage out of it initially.

shnaek wrote: »

Hmmm. That looks interesting. I had been considering this:

http://www.dabs4work.ie/products/toshiba-t110-13h-cel-m-743-2gb-250-w7p-6P2Q.html

but the dell is a fair bit cheaper. Even though the Toshiba has it's advantages...

Funny you bring that up.. girlfriend was looking at that too!

So I put this thread over on the Laptops forum.. she's went with the netbook now over it.

13" laptops are the way of the future.. they're the perfect size but they're still quite expensive (especially for some of the more reliable models).

Dean820

Just one last question, how long would this take to arrive in Cork from whatever its based? Say standard delivery...

Basq

Dean820 wrote: »

Just one last question, how long would this take to arrive in Cork from whatever its based? Say standard delivery...

Middle of next week I'd say..

.. from what I've ordered from Expansys before, it normally took about 3 working days.

Dean820

Ordered a red one, hopefully I'll have no problems. Thanks for the info!

cson

Anyone tell me how good the processer/RAM combo is? How fast is she in other words.

shnaek

basquille wrote: »

Funny you bring that up.. girlfriend was looking at that too!

Ended up buying this one for around €200 delivered:
http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=189040

I didn't need anything too powerful and the reviews were good so I thought I'd give it a go.

madmoe

Any HDMI out on this one gents??

Basq

madmoe wrote: »

Any HDMI out on this one gents??

Unfortunately not.

theavenger

Was looking for a cheapish Netbook, and i trust your judgement tnx basq :D:D

foxirl

Ordered one today and it worked out at 276 Euro delivered if you select the irish site as opposed to the UK one

theavenger

is it usual for them to ask you to upload, photo ID and a utility bill

brightkane

yeah its usual, i had to do it with them when i made my first order

discombobulate

theavenger wrote: »

is it usual for them to ask you to upload, photo ID and a utility bill

****ers anyway. I ordered and have to do this. Don't have any bills with my name on them!! They've got my money what right do they have to ask for a copy of my passport or driving license!!!

Basq

foxirl wrote: »

Ordered one today and it worked out at 276 Euro delivered if you select the irish site as opposed to the UK one

Yeah.. it wasn't that price at the weekend.

I checked before I put up the thread.. think it was €279.99 (ex. shipping of €21.66) on Friday / Saturday.

IrishHomer

Powercity have an Acer with same spec but 160gig hard disk for €219 includes free delivery.

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-27-038861

PabD

IrishHomer wrote: »

Powercity have an Acer with same spec but 160gig hard disk for €219 includes free delivery.

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-27-038861

Plus 1 for the acer, picked it up yesterday for 219, was going to get it on sunday at 229, was very pleased to get another 10 off when i went back up.

Not bad to use and the android feature is very good, loads in 13 seconds, handy for surfing the net.

v240gltse

thanks IrishHomer,

just got mine today in powercity fonthill. nice nice little unit

thanks again

brendan

Digitalism

Hmmmm the acer or the Dell....

I see they have same ram and specs, so im wondering what use would these be for like photoshop, microsoft office etc for college? Could you use like itunes and microsoft office at the same time? Has anyone got this yet?

EDIT: To the people who bought the acer, what is the model number as I want to look up some video reviews. thanks

geecee

They don't have the same specs...

The acer has an older N270 processor

The Dell has an N450 which is a pineview and teh newest Atom processor

Battery will last longer on the N450 as its a low voltage processor

Digitalism

Oh right I was just going by the post above there. Is it worth paying the extra €50 abouts for the dell or will the extra processor make much of a difference. Is the ram upgradable on the dell and acer? The extra 90gb in the HD doesnt matter much to me.

Anyone know the model of the acer?

Dean820

My Dell arrived today, very happy with it so far. Smaller than I expected and the buttons are different from what I'm used to but its grand.

shnaek

shnaek wrote: »

Ended up buying this one for around €200 delivered:
http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=189040

I didn't need anything too powerful and the reviews were good so I thought I'd give it a go.

My asus arrived today too. Looks great, but AC power isn't working Maybe I should have stuck with the DELL...

Digitalism

shnaek wrote: »

Ended up buying this one for around €200 delivered:
http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=189040

I didn't need anything too powerful and the reviews were good so I thought I'd give it a go.

Is that sold out or something as I cant find on the page where to buy it...

shnaek

Digitalism wrote: »

Is that sold out or something as I cant find on the page where to buy it...

Looks like it is alright - sold out pretty quick.

PCDub

Acer ordered from PC. Cheers IrishHomer.

nutts_77

Bought the Acer after reading this post, so thanks everyone... Am using it at min, and am happy, happy, happy.... :-)

Redisle

Just ordered an Acer there, should be handy around college since lugging around a 17" monster isn't a pleasant experience.

Christ that powercity website is horrible and amateurish though!

Digitalism

Can anyone take a picture or 2 of the acer netbook for me or tell me what model it is please as the power city website is horrible.

PCDub

Powercity site is a bit dated alright but it works. The model is listed on the site (LU.S670D.063). Got mine today and its a little beauty, especially with 2gb ram.

Jarren

Digitalism wrote: »

Can anyone take a picture or 2 of the acer netbook for me or tell me what model it is please as the power city website is horrible.

there you go


http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_One_AOD250-0BK_in_Black_with_Windows_7_LU.S670D.063/version.asp

Digitalism

PCDub wrote: »

Powercity site is a bit dated alright but it works. The model is listed on the site (LU.S670D.063). Got mine today and its a little beauty, especially with 2gb ram.

Its got 2gb of ram????

On the site it says 1gb ram or is this not the one you bought? http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-27-038861

PCDub

Sorry for the confusion, it does indeed come with 1gb ram but first thing i did was stick in 2gb ram..happy days...:D

theavenger

Got my Dell today super fast, and a little beauty, tanx basq:cool:

Basq

Yep, girlfriend got hers yesterday.

Took off all the Dell muck, ran HijackThis to remove unwanted startup entries and optimized for performances (switching off drop shadows / gimmicky stuff like that).

It flies now!

cson

basquille wrote: »

Yep, girlfriend got hers yesterday.

Took off all the Dell muck, ran HijackThis to remove unwanted startup entries and optimized for performances (switching off drop shadows / gimmicky stuff like that).

It flies now!

How does one shift the crapware it ships with?

Basq

cson wrote: »

How does one shift the crapware it ships with?

Add / Remove Prgorams and get rid of anything that doesn't look important (anything Dell-related particularly).

Mc Love

Not too bad:

http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?rn=1107&SC=lowToHigh&c=ie&cs=iedfh1&l=en&s=dfh

Redisle

Got the acer today, Nice little machine but there's an awful amount of crap installed on it. Dosen't come with an OS disc either which is a right pain. Chances of finding an OEM Acer Windows 7 Starter disc.. very slim

Ah well, may switch to Ubuntu Netbook remix anyway.

Charlie Haughy

Basquille, does the dell come with the OS disc? And whats the machine like? Do you think it would be able to run itunes, MSN, anti virus, and firefox at the same time?

Amaru KGB

Right folks, I need to get the lady a new lapptop for her birthday and since you guys know mre than I do what could you reccomend for around the 300-350 mark.

Cheers

A

brightkane

Basq - Mrs mini lappy is running dead slow, have used c cleaned, adaware. avg but slow slow as mas, nothing in start up, could hijackthis help sort do you think?

cson

They're beginning to piss me off now with the repeated security checks.

What the **** is the issue exactly? They've received cleared payment at this stage and even if I was pulling a fast one they can issue a chargeback on the cc.

It's ridiculous tbh.

nutts_77

Redisle wrote: »

Got the acer today, Nice little machine but there's an awful amount of crap installed on it. Dosen't come with an OS disc either which is a right pain. Chances of finding an OEM Acer Windows 7 Starter disc.. very slim

Ah well, may switch to Ubuntu Netbook remix anyway.

Hi Redisle,
Could you recommend me which of the installed crap is safe to remove. And are there any other processes i should use other that straightforward uninstall?

Redisle

You can pretty much uninstall everything with Acer before it, except I left the Power management one and the webcam one. I also got rid of all the msft office crap, loads of stupid games, McAffee (defo remove this), some Norton junk. Basically everything except the driver software.

This should help -- http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/download
It automatically runs all the uninstallers for you and makes things much faster, it then allows you to select all the other things you want to uninstall and runs the uninstallers one after the other.

Amaru KGB

foxirl wrote: »

Ordered one today and it worked out at 276 Euro delivered if you select the irish site as opposed to the UK one

Cheers seems like a good deal.

What are people experiences with expansys? If you have problems is it hard to get it fixed under the warranty?

Charlie Haughy

Most colours gone now apart from purple and pink

Might have to get the purple...

Any other netbook offers going like the powercity one which is now gone back up to like €270