A Netbook for Under £150 – Elonex ONEt 7-inch

For those who want something cheap and cheerful to carry everywhere with them just for web-browsing, the 7-inch Elonet ONEt could be just the thing.

Now available for less than £150, the Elonex ONEt is one of the cheapest netbooks around. It seems ridiculously cheap, but is more than capable of getting you connected to the web, for mails or keeping in touch with your friends via Facebook and the like. It’s even great for watching YouTube videos while relaxing with your friends in your favourite coffee house.

As well as a wired and wireless network connectors, the Elonex ONEt features 3 USB ports to input flash and external hard-drives, plus headphone and microphone jacks in case you want to use external speakers or microphone. So its perfect for telephony too. 32GB storage is available internally, and can be expanded via the SD card slot.

The seven inch ONEt is highly portable,  weighing a mere 650g (yes that’s including the battery).

On the downside, the maximum resolution is only 800 x 480 but for the very small screen, to be honest it’s OK, and most websites look fine at this resolution. Another thing which some people won’t like is the proprietery operating system (it’s NOT Windows).

The user interface has been designed to be a simple and straight forward way for a first time computer user to navigate around the laptop to find their files or open programs.

The ONEt has a whole software suite preinstalled to both save you time, hassle and money. You’ll find all the standard software you would expect and you’ll be able to get on the internet wirelessly, eMail, use a word processor, spreadsheet, play MP3s and watch videos. For compatibility with existing computers you may have, you can open documents made using Microsoft Office on the ONEt and open documents made on the ONEt using Microsoft Office. (Not compatible with Office 2007 file formats though.)

If all you want to do is have something with you which you can whip out and get connected anywhere, at this price the Elonex ONEt is a bargain.