Why so few 13.3" laptops

bluesteel

I recently ended up buying a 15.6" Lenovo (Lenovo G50-30 15.6 inch Pentium 4GB ) - I wanted something cheap but with quad core CPU and Argos had it on sale for 299€ at which price you can't go wrong.

The stupid thing is that I would have preferred something a bit smaller - no need for the Numeric Pad on the keyboard so around 13-14" would be nice.

Any ideas why there are so many laptops at this price point (300-500€) but hardly any decent 13.3"?

ED E

Netbooks are dead. Ultrabooks are king now. If you want compact you pay for it. Raise the budget north of €1000 and youll get something nice.

sasta le

Netbook and ultrabooks not the same thing?

mordeith

sasta le wrote: »

Netbook and ultrabooks not the same thing?

No. Both small and compact but different beasts altogether.

FishOnABike

Netbooks will usually be powered by an Intel Atom processor with integrated graphics and limited memory, possibly pre-loaded with windows starter edition. By definition netbooks are lower specification systems suited for web browsing, email and simple office tasks. They would not be suited to running multiple applications at the same time.

Ultrabooks can be equally as powerful as their full size laptops but you pay for the design that goes into packing the same performance into a smaller package.

bluesteel

thing is I'm replacing a 13.3 with a cracked screen - it's not an ultra book; just a modestly powered Windows7 laptop.

I don't need the power of an ultrabook - just a smaller version of a 15.6"... before you paid extra for a 15.6 vs a smaller screen; now it's the opposite

Skerries

you can get them here

FishOnABike

If you're happy with your current laptop, apart from the broken screen that is, have you looked at getting a replacement screen. Might be worth considering rather than splashing out on a new laptop.

Search for "laptop screen repair" and you should get a choice of possible repairers. If you're any way handy you could try replacing the screen yourself, would be much cheaper again.

bluesteel

FishOnABike wrote: »

If you're happy with your current laptop, apart from the broken screen that is, have you looked at getting a replacement screen. Might be worth considering rather than splashing out on a new laptop.

Search for "laptop screen repair" and you should get a choice of possible repairers. If you're any way handy you could try replacing the screen yourself, would be much cheaper again.

I'll look into it; the battery is kaput too so I assumed all in it would be cheaper to get a new one but for <100E it'd prob be worth it