Saw this advertised on TV tonight.

Packard Bell Dot S Netbook

1.66ghz Atom Processor

1GB DDR2 Ram

250GB Hard Drive

Windows 7

£259 at Comet + 3.5% cashback with quidco and 4% off using voucher code so about £240ish all in.

Just looking at upgrading my laptop which is 4 years old, slow and keeps overheating all the time, though otherwise does work.

All will be used for is storing music, browsing the web, email, etc, no video editing or owt like that.

Just fancy a change really?

Are they any good? Believe theyre a rebranded Acer Aspire One

Good price, but never really liked PB stuff. Would rather spend the extra 40-50 on something like an Asus 1005HA.

Steve

They were bought by Acer last year, so apparantly its all just rebranded Acer.

RAM is my only concern, but could upgrade that myself easily for £30 to 2GB.

I had a packard bell once (desktop)......... It was sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow!

My girlfirends parents replaced they're old packard bell (desktop) 2 years ago because it was so slooooooooooow...... However, being stuck in they're ways and against all warnings, they replaced it with..... another packard bell!! Guess what..... It's sloooooooooooooow............

Maybe their laptops are better? dunno, i know i won't ever buy a Packard Bell though......

Packard Bell = F^ckin Hell.

Budget stuff so you get what you pay for.

I'm not saying it's rubbish I don't know enough

But by reputation I wouldn't with my own money.

Don't know of their buy-out status, but they basically used to be PC World's own brand. Say no more

As I've said, I would look elsewhere. Also look up some reviews of netbooks in that price range. Dell Mini10, Samsung NC10 and my already suggested Asus spring to mind...

Steve