Originally Posted by Euc- (Post 7803898)

Well.. 1000Dhs cheaper compared to the UK one.. Cheapest Macbook Pro would come to 4000Dhs..

Originally Posted by Euc- (Post 7803898)

Well.. 1000Dhs cheaper compared to the UK one.. Cheapest Macbook Pro would come to 4000Dhs..

Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 7803914)

I got a brand new laptop upstairs, I don't know why I posted really, I just liked it cos it's pink :o

Originally Posted by Kim67 (Post 7803950)

No it's because you really do want a mac and want us all to convince you.

Originally Posted by Kim67 (Post 7803985)

Well my husband could go on forever because he's one of the cult - but from a layman's point of view, they're just very easy to use - the photo and movie applications are very easy to use, yet with professional results. Our ipods, computers (we have four macs in one room here for the five of us - but the person left out just gets on Apple TV and watches youtube on that), Iphone, Apple TV etc all sync with each other and wirelessly backup to the Apple time capsule every 20 minutes or something. They don't get viruses.

Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 7804005)

the virus thing is about all that interests me, I only use the computer to post on a couple of forums, email, and read the Daily Mail, that's about it.

Originally Posted by Kim67 (Post 7804008)

But if you had a mac, you'd be much more interested. You'd be making your own dubai soap opera starring all on EW before you know it. Could make a fortune.

Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 7804016)

yes it would go like this .... it was a hot humid evening when the body of MP was found ....

Originally Posted by Kim67 (Post 7804024)

let's hope it's a serial offender and the fun doesn't stop at just one.......

Originally Posted by Bob (Post 7803846)

Yup, it's sorted, it's a proper little keyboard too, much more sturdy and feels proper if you know what I mean, also they sorted out the shift key, well the left is a full sized shift key, the right one is still a little stumpy, so it's much easier to type on. Also the touchpad is much better, the buttons are at the bottom like they should be, but the gestures are fab so you hardly ever use the buttons anyway.

There is a newer version, the 1005, that's a few bucks more I think, but essentially the same, I think they sorted the right shift key and there's a couple tweeks but nothing major.

Go for the 1000HE, great deals, especially on the refurb front. The 9 hour battery life, well I've gotten mine to go 8.75hrs, but that's not normal, I had the wifi/bluetooth/camera/lan disabled and the screen off while playing music out of it all day.

Usually with everything but bluetooth on get between 5-7.5hrs out of it, if just browsing web, reading/typing, then the higher end, if watching movies, towards the lower end.

Oh and as a metric for those who might be interested, it runs Z-Brush like a charm, well up to sub-D level 4 on the human mesh, gets sluggish at level 5 and crawls at 6, Photoshop runs like a charm.

Originally Posted by shiva (Post 7804043)

excellent stuff. i love my wee eeepc900 but the keyboard gets up to 40 odd degrees even with the fan overclocked so its impossible to use for sofa surfing beyond an hour. at the moment its a toss up between an upgrade to a 1000he or a samsumg n110.
can ur 1000he run 720p smoothly? quite often hook up mine to the tele but it dies if it even tries any hd content

Originally Posted by Bob (Post 7804057)

I've not tried to much HD stuff tbh as my tele is still rubbish, but when hooked up to the in-laws, it was superb, I think playing HD stuff was really the only benefit to having the newer atom CPU.

The Samsung, there's a N210? Can't remember, but it's the newer one with slightly better specs to the original, which is really nice, just down my way it's a lot more expensive, proper laptop money which is why I wasn't interested.

Also, and this might not be a consideration or issue down your way, but upgrading the memory on the Asus is a doddle and doesn't void the warranty, which it would do on the Acer/Samsung netbooks down my way.

Originally Posted by shiva (Post 7804065)

price wise the he and n110 (upgraded nc10) arent exaclty netbook money but are still less than laptop cash so theyre still an option, besides you gotta love the size and weight factors

Originally Posted by Euc- (Post 7801165)

lol, some things are just way overpriced in the UAE..

You know, I have had multiple VAIO's (typing on them now), but every single one of them had issues with the battery. Don't expect it to last longer than 2 hours at most!