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Packard Bell Dot M/A AMD/ATI 11.6" Laptop - £269.10 from £399 at Tesco Home


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Operating System : Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
Chassis
Dimensions : 288mmx199mmx25.4mm
Size : 1.25 kg with 3-cell battery pack
Processor
Model : AMD Athlon L110
Cache memory : 512 Kb
Bus Speed : 800 Mhz
Memory
Installed memory : 2 GB DDR2
Hard Disk Drive
HDD size : 160 GB
Card reader / Floppy drive
card reader : 5-in-1 (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
Graphics
Chipset : ATI Radeon Xpress X1270
Screen
Monitor size : 11.6"
Technology and ratio : LED screen
Battery
Battery life : Up to 4h with 3 cells
Sound
Speaker system : Two built-in stereo speakers
Dolby : Dolby Headphone
Communication
Ethernet : 10/100 LAN
Modem : No
Wireless LAN : Third Party b/g
Connectors
USB : 3 USB 2.0
Video out VGA : VGA
Keyboard and pointing device
Pointing device : TouchPad
Keyboard : 84 keys with 1.6mm key dimensions.
Accessories
- : VGA webcam
Operating System
Operating System : Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
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Share on the web, mobile phones, and more
Nero 8 Essentials : Get the worlds easiest, most powerful burning engine
Enjoy direct feature access with Nero StartSmart
Record data to CD, DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray
Analyze media, drives, and systems for HD readiness
PowerDVD 9 : PC friendly for enjoying smooth high-definition playback on both powerful or energy-efficient computers or notebooks!
PowerDVD ensures the best quality for playing all your favorite movies on any type of home PC: desktop or notebook.
This way, you are guaranteed a high-definition experience on a variety of hardware platforms.
Personal Management
Microsoft® Works SE 9 : Word Processor
Spreadsheet
Easy to navigate
Task Launcher home page
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Trial : Office Word 2007, Excel 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007, OneNote 2007
Internet and Security
Magic Desktop : Software that protects your kids... and your PC:
Protect Windows from busy fingers.
Create a kid friendly environment.
Kids safe Internet & e-mail.
Tons of fun.
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Down to £299 from £399 on the Tesco.com site but Tesco Home in Chelmsford have 3 ex-disp (but boxed) at £269.10. A decent alternative to an Atom netbook and in the flesh are quite desirable! Direct link is to Tesco site.

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28-08-2009, 06:45
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Nice little machine, but the 2 hour battery life would put me off it, if i get something thats portable then i want the battery to last for a little longer than that.
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Where d'ya get the description from?
No optical drives on these, so no PowerDVD either I'd have thought.
Should qualify for free Windows 7 upgrade, but I bet they supply it as a disk
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it is nice and light at 1.25 kg especially give the larger than netbook screen of 11.6 inchs. Up to 4 hours battery life, though I think you will be lucky to get that (review says about 2.5 hours at best), though a good replacement 6 cell battery would give lots of remote working. Sadly only VGA out (same as many netbooks) as HDMI ro DVI would have been real nice. 2 gig of ram at 800htz is real nice, a lot of performance comes from the bus speed and ram speed.

LED screen? Has a resolution of 1,366x768 pixels, which is real nice
No optical drive (normal for a netbook)
The CPU is 1.2 Ghtz slower than a Atom but the bus speed increase should make up for that.
Overall it seems very similar in performance to a standard netbook, with only b/g wifi and t100 ethernet, but the extra resolution of the screen is nice.

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Noticed these last night at Lee Mill, Plymouth (plenty in stock it seemed!). For a Pakard Hell it was surprisingly solid and well built. Noticable size difference compared to a Compaq 10.1 they had next too it, but not huge. I would still go for the NC10 or 1005HA for the same sorta money. But ya pays it and takes ya chioce!.. Heated!
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Where d'ya get the description from?
No optical drives on these, so no PowerDVD either I'd have thought.
Should qualify for free Windows 7 upgrade, but I bet they supply it as a disk
In a stunning display of f'kwittery, it's from the PB website.
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Ive seen a similar one of these in my local tesco, they really look good. I would say the best looking net/note book.

The processor is a bit patchy tho to be honest, I dont think this will be a super performer
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Gutted, no tesco near me believe it or not - This would have done the girlfriend me thinks, she only uses it for looking at pics, email, facebook etc...mainly facebook :P but doesnt want a typical netbook because of the small keyboard and screen...this would have been perfect!
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Gutted, no tesco near me believe it or not - This would have done the girlfriend me thinks, she only uses it for looking at pics, email, facebook etc...mainly facebook :P but doesnt want a typical netbook because of the small keyboard and screen...this would have been perfect!
You can buy them online via the link from OP for £299 - still a good price
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I got one of these to take on my holiday with me to keep up with the HUKD's. Used it for 2 weeks, the screen and keyboard size was great but the battery life was useless and one of the keys broke within about 3 days use so it has gone back.
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Just spotted these in Tesco Extra for £269. Very tempting but reviews suggest that at most to expect 1 hour 30 minutes from the battery. I'd rather not be anchored to the mains. Apparently Packard Bell are now owned by Acer and this model shares the same chassis with an Acer model.
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