What To Buy?

[garysmith]

I am looking to buy a small laptop for travel reasons. I have appx £70 credit plus £100 more to spend on Amazon.
I have found this so far==

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

I only need it abroad for Skype/Facebook/emails.

I would like to use it with a locally purcased 3G Dongle (unlimited) in the country i am travelling to. And Wi-fi where possible.

Would this be suitable? I am rather naive when it comes to purchases such as this!

[VHG]

If you go to the Amazon site you see only 2 are available, one used the other refurbished.

While it is a small laptop it has a VERY slow Atom CPU which will make the laptop run VERY slow.

Not that you need speed for a lot of what you do but it may not even be fast enough for Skype video.

[mikey4444]

I agree with VHG. If you can spend just a little more, try Tesco :::

http://www.tesco.com/direct/technology-gaming/all-laptops/cat3376345.list?catId=4294960185+4294949068+40693&_WebEvents=laptops&_requestid=1384116&icid=redirect_laptop

I have a small ACER Notebook and I am very pleased with it. Notebooks are much smaller and lighter than regular laptops but they are ideal for travelling. I use mine in my caravan, with a dongle. Mine is similar to the £239 one and it has a 11.5 inch screen, so its not so tiny really.

Can't recommend Tesco highly enough either. I won't use Amazon on principle as they employ staff at starvation wages and treat them like dirt. They also don't see the need to pay any taxes in the UK apparently...another reason to avoid them !