Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.

https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

Netbook recommendation

jozi · 2015-04-14 13:30:44

I remember a few years ago these were all over the place and quite common, seems chromebooks and tablets have taken over since? Looking for a decent netbook under or around the 250e mark for my dad, he has a Samsung thats starting to fall apart. I don't think he would have use for a tablet, in fact it will probably cause…

14-04-2015 02:30PM

#1

jozi

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,391 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2003

Posts: 4769

I remember a few years ago these were all over the place and quite common, seems chromebooks and tablets have taken over since?

Looking for a decent netbook under or around the 250e mark for my dad, he has a Samsung thats starting to fall apart. I don't think he would have use for a tablet, in fact it will probably cause more grief as he will have to re-learn how to use it.

He mainly uses his notbook for word/excel stuff as well as youtube and internet - that is as far as I know anyway. He probably needs a pdf viewer/printer, maybe something cad related, the usual office related programs.

0