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Acer Aspire One D255E Netbook For Under £200

 

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Two years ago more than 10 million netbooks were sold. Netbooks have evolved into one of the hottest commodities on the market today. Consumers are snatching up netbooks because of their petite size and their more petite price. It is not hard to argue against purchasing a computer that can cost under £200 and shares same of the main functions as a thousand pound laptop computer. If you are considering purchasing a netbook, here are our top recommended netbooks under 200 pounds from top brands with all the information you will need in getting the best deal.

Points to consider when buying Cheap netbooks under £200

Price
Most netbooks are priced between £200 and £600  but you can find some cheap netbooks on sale priced under £200 . This puts the price of a netbook at around 1/3 or ¼ of the price of a fully decked out laptop computer. Because of the low price many people are purchasing netbooks as a 2nd computer that is lightweight and easy to carry around. Some people are going a step further and replacing their laptop computer with a netbook. Parents of school age children are finding that a netbook is a good computer for their kid to use at school at all levels.

Screen Size
The screen size is very small on a netbook computer. This is a sharp contrast to laptop computers that in the past couple of years have come out with larger and larger screens. Most netbook computers will have a screen size between 10 and 12 inches. The lowest priced netbooks will of course have the smallest screens.

You will find that the smallest screen will require must more frequent scrolling when reading a website or a document. If your computer activities require you to read long documents, it is may be worth spending an extra £100 or more to upgrade to a netbook with a much larger screen size if you require this.

Available Ports
Due to the small form factor on a netbook computer, you are restricted to the amount of space on the sides and rear of the netbook to add on ports. Manufacturers of netbooks are aware of this so they have provided ports for the functionality that their research has shown most people will do when using a netbook. The primary usage is surfing the Internet. That is what this computer got its name of netbook. Manufacturers have included support for both wired and wireless network connections.

The next most important port is the USB port. This port can be used for a wide range of products including connecting jump drives, MP3 music players and hard drives. The USB ports will be USB 2.0 so that means they support the latest advancement in USB devices. The lower priced netbooks will only offer 1 or possibly 2 USB ports. If you are a technology junkie you might find this very restrictive. The higher priced netbooks will offer 3 USB ports.

Memory and Disk Drive
All netbooks will come with a minimum of 1 GB of memory. If you are trying to mimic the same functionality that you have on your laptop, you might find this not enough memory. Most netbooks have one memory slot for you to add additional memory. If you buy nothing else with your netbook, you would want to consider adding more memory.

Unfortunately because of their compact size they don’t have a built in DVD/CD drive. This can be a problem if you want to watch a DVD or more importantly have a software program on DVD rom that you can’t install without a Disk drive. Don’t worry though as this problem can be resolved without problem by using an external DVD/CD drive which plugs into any USB post on the netbook. You can also plug a DVD/CD burner into a netbook & the cost for these external devices are very low.

Entry level netbooks provide a very generous 160 GB hard drive. The better netbooks will come with an even bigger 250 GB laptop. For most people a 160 GB hard drive is going to be big enough. Keep up to date on the latest news on netbooks in the UK.