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Anyone got Dell Inspirion Netbook from Vodafone?

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milge · 05/11/2008 19:20

it seems to tick all the boxes for me, and £25pcm is great, less fiddly than a dongle and searching for wifi.
anyone got one yet, or got any views on it?
TIA

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artichokes · 05/11/2008 19:30

I decided against it as it was nto right for me. You can get a fully functional laptop free with a £30psm mobile broadband deal from "3". For me the advantages of that deal over the vodafone one were:
(a) I think the screen of the Netbok is so small it would annoy me after a while. It was hard to read the text of the BBC website when I experimented
(b) If you want to type up any length of document the small keypad will annoy you
(c) You cannot play DVDs on the netbook and when we travel I like to play my DC's DVDs on the laptop
(d) The netbook memory is not huge - I like to store thousands of photos on my laptop.
(e) The "3" mobile dongle means I can use my broadband on other peoples' machines.

However, if you just want a machine on which to mumsnet I would go for it!

milge · 05/11/2008 19:49

Thanks Artichokes. I agree with you in the main, however we have shocking Orange and 3 coverage, we live in dips with hills around us and when friends visit with dongles on Orange and 3, they get no service, so Vodafone is my only best option.
It is principally for dh to use for internet/email access when travelling, as he stupidly signed up for mobile contract and got phone that did not have internet access. I use a blackberry bold when I am not at home. He won't need to do heavy duty typing, music is kept on home pc's, he may put itunes on but that's all.

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