Maplin offers up £170 laptop

Here's another bargain PC for your list - a 7in, 800x480 pixel, Wi-FI laptop from Maplin for a mere £169.99.

The 'minibook' sports a 360MHz (yes, that's Mega-hertz) XBurst processor, a 'mighty' 128MB of RAM and a whole 2GB (whoo!) of flash storage. And don't get any ideas of boosting that capacity by more than a few gigs - 4GD SD cards or USB sticks are the largest it will support.

It comes loaded with Linux plus Firefox, Xip office, a PDF viewer and an email client. It also has a cunning child-friendly mode for small hands to play with.

It does look an awful lot like the hard to get Elonex ONEt+, just with fewer colours to choose from. Still, at £170, it's not to be sniffed at. Click through for the full specs.

· 7-inch LCD screen and stylish piano black finish casing
· Easy to use Linux operating system
· Complete with Xip office applications
· Multi-theme display (Child or Adult mode)
· Web browser: Firefox
· Email and Office (word processor and spreadsheet program)
· PDF viewer
· SD / SDHC Card reader
· Built-in Wi-Fi ( IEEE 802.1 b/g )
· 10/100MB Ethernet port
· 2GB SSD (soild state disk) shock proof storage
· Expand the storage with USB or SD Flash Memory (not external hard drives)
· Supports up to 4GB SD cards and 4GB USB sticks
· DDR2 128MB memory
· 800 x 480 ( WVGA ) Display
· 3 x USB 2.0 ports
· Stereo Speakers and built-in microphone
· Touch mouse pad
· (Does not support Microsoft O/S)
· AC adaptor / charger
· Battery duration: 2+ hours
· Dimensions: 222 (l) x 165(w) x 29.5(d) mm

[ Maplin]