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Originally Posted by zing
true but it gives me another toy anyway lol looks like im going back on 2 things ive said recently lol by getting 50 meg and now considering this netbook but it does appear you may need xl tv and phone which I wont be doing
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Well, the world would be an awful place if we weren't allowed to sometimes change our minds!
Netbooks tend to do that to people - they certainly do it to me! I quite like the idea of having an ultra small, yet fully functional and
connected laptop. Even though I loathe even standard PC laptop size trackpads - 10 minutes with an Eee PC, although nice, made me want to take a knife to the trackpad and chuck the whole thing out the 9th floor window (Apple's trackpads are very good, though - so I merely dislike them) - the size alone is enough to make me interested in this. Ideally, however, they'd also offer a convertible tablet like the
GIGABYTE M912X, perhaps for a small extra cost - I see that there's a Menagerierumpus Snapcrackleandpopbook Pirouette (or, only slightly more sanely, the
Zoostorm Fizzbook Spin) from Zoostorm, although it's targeted at younger users (based on the Intel Classmate, I believe).
Indeed, if the trackpad thing was the only barrier, I'd probably pounce on this because I can't really see myself wanting to switch away from VM for broadband (I'm also in the market for a cheap mobile broadband plan, since O2 want £15 to tether my iPhone with 1GB of data, and a netbook would go beautifully with that), but it isn't. I switched to Sky for TV, (after saying I'd never do so!) and it's still unclear as to whether their forthcoming STB VOD service is going to require a Sky Broadband connection. I hope it doesn't - BT charge ridiculous amounts for a new install *and* tie you into a 12 month line rental contract, then there's speed issues, etc - but if it does then I don't want to be tied into an extra long contract with VM. It's not like I have any regular use for 50 meg - it's nice, and was something I had to have, but anything reliable and over 5 meg would probably do me fine (although I'd ideally want at least 8 because 5/6 mbit/s is probably the minimum for pre encoded HD).
Still, it's a good deal (I'm just picky!), and it's nice to see. If you can stomach a 2 year contract, it's ideal!
Sam