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My Epson P2000 (40Gb) has just bitten the dust! The fabled 'reset' error has occurred after 2 years of use. Google tells me that Epson will charge in the region of £150 to repair although there have been a couple of self repair threads posted here that I'm not sure I have the nerve to try!

Soooo....

Can anyone recommend a good portable storage/viewer (80Gb+)?

Up until last night the Epson was great but the newer models look very expensive £300 - £400

Suggestion last night from alexisonfire of getting a notebook for the same purpose...any suggestions there?

Any experiences from you good folk will be welcomed :)

Ta
 
A netbook would be good or maybe an Archos?
 
i got a little webbook about the same price and you have the advantage of it being a functioning computer as well :D
 
I'm planning to get a netbook in time for my next holiday. Samsung NC10 is top of my list at the moment. £303 at Pixmania less 3% from quidco.
 
Thanks folks, all useful stuff - Rob when are you thinking of getting the Samsung :) I'm looking to get mine before Cuba :) A hands on demo would be most welcome :D
 
Dark Star said:
Rob when are you thinking of getting the Samsung :)
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Ordered today :)

Came to about £294 with delivery and using quidco and a pixmania code. Just hope it's not all in French! (pixmania are a french company and have a habit of stocking the european version of things.)

Should have it in time for my birthday.
 
dell xps do a fairly juicy netbook 12" ish but I would think most would cope, my laptop can't load left 4 dead but runs PS and bridge easy
 
I picked up an Acer aspire one from Asda for £150 last weekend. 160gb hdd and 512k memory. I wiped the linpus os and installed windows 7 and picasa. Good for backing up and viewing when travelling. Would not use for editing though.

Small and light and battery lasts 2 hours.
 
commjo said:
I picked up an Acer aspire one from Asda for £150 last weekend. 160gb hdd and 512k memory. I wiped the linpus os and installed windows 7 and picasa. Good for backing up and viewing when travelling. Would not use for editing though.

Small and light and battery lasts 2 hours.
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Ooooo - thats a good idea that I may just have to copy - when does the beta expire though?
 
Windows 7 expires August I think. You can always revert to xp but you will need a valid license for xp. Windows 7 is free in beta as you probaly know.
 
I'm liking this idea - lets me play with Windows 7 for 6 months and £150 - whats the speed like with 512Mb? pretty acceptable?
 
We picked up a Samsung NC10 yesterday as my my good lady decided she wanted to downsize from her laptop.
It's perfect for her needs and it's a nice piece of kit.
It's going to be handy for taking on holidays so I can dump photos onto it.
 
Barlines said:
I'm liking this idea - lets me play with Windows 7 for 6 months and £150 - whats the speed like with 512Mb? pretty acceptable?
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Speed is acceptable but I will be adding 1gb extra memory. That might cost a tenner I think
 
Thanks for the continued input - I'll see how Rob's samsung goes I think :)
 
Hopefully it will arrive this week. pixmania had it in stock according to their web site but now don't have stock after taking my money. Hopefully they will refund or cancel the reserved money from my card or whatever they do quickly. Anyway impatient and annoyed I've ordered from dixons now. With cashback site and discount code it may even end up a pound or two cheaper.
 
You've ordered it twice :) I'll take the spare off you for a good price :)
 
Just to close this off from my perspective...I followed Rob's lead and took delivery last week of a tiny Samsung NC10 - looks and feels very neat and I shall start to use it for images etc soon! Very luggable :)

Thanks for all the input and contributions folks, much appreciated :D
 
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