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Firestarter |
This thing looks nice, but I've got to say that the EEE PC has a thing going for it by sticking to the Intel platform. Using a VIA graphics card is begging for trouble in my experience.
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Chrispy_ |
This looks better than any effort so far, but it's still either too big or the screen is too small.
When will a sub-notebook come with a screen that occupies all the available space, and a build-quality that needs to accompany the "ultraportable" tag? There's no point in anything being ultraportable if it's also ultrafragile. I guess what I'm saying is that I'll have to wait for that loathesome apple company to copy the eee. I want an underpowered, undersized macbook running windowsxp. |
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steelcity_ballin |
Save the money and buy a real laptop with a real videocard, ram, etc for another few hundred dollars. The limited power and nil hard drive space are huge turn offs for me. $500 for a very limited machine for $700+ dollars for a LOT more?
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TO11MTM |
I feel like this seems too expensive for the price. It's not likely to show up on sale because it's a niche item, and even back in august I found my Girlfriend a laptop with a C1D and DVD Burner for 449, no rebates... upping it to a full GB of ram was only another 50 bucks.
Yes, I know it's an 'ultraportable,' but I feel like it's in that bizzare price range where someone spending that much on a laptop will want something better powered... and will thus either buy a 'full' laptop or will save up for a better equipped ultraportable. |
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BoBzeBuilder |
Geez, they should've at least used via's Isaiah or an Atom processor. That thing is sluggish, even for everyday tasks.
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flip-mode |
Screen resolutions are finally getting decent. I'd like to have one of these. I think the price is a little high.
After thesis is over and done I'd love to sell my full size laptop and get one of these instead. |
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floodo1 |
Sweet! Once this platform size gets switched over to Atom (aka decent horsepower) I'm gonna buy one for sure. Here's my requirements / reasoning.
I want something with a full size keyboard and a screen with a little bit of resolution. I also want enough processing so that I can watch all my non-hd movies on it. Beyond that I just need it to be durable (so i can throw it in mybackpack and not worry about it), and have good battery life (so i dont have to find an outlet). It needs to do basic software stuff like browse the net, do some calendar action, and word process. Aka I just want a small, easily transportable device to do basic on the go type of stuff, that can play videos. Oh yeah it needs to be 550 or less :( preferably closer to 400 :) I think there's a LOT of people that would like a device like this. Basically a super-portable laptop that handles the basics. |
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swaaye |
It appears that the C7-M runs cooler than anything other than Atom. I imagine that at 1.2 GHz, it could keep up with a Celeron M at ~700. Maybe.
http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/celeronm/specifications_celeron... http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c7-m_ulv/ http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/v-series/vx800/index.jsp (chipset?) IGP sounds like a 1x2 design. Might be able to run games from 5 years ago.... |
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Voldenuit |
What's the battery life like?
An ultraportable is useless for school if it has to be plugged in all the time. |
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ssidbroadcast |
The Chrome9 ? That's a "super" gaming video card!
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bthylafh |
The 1 GHz Via chip might be able to keep up with a 600-some MHz Celeron-M. I wonder how a full-on Linux distro will work versus the Eee's customized version.
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donkeycrock |
i just got a new laptop by everex, it has a 15 widescreen, 1.5 GHZ via cm-7, 512 ram 60 gig hdd. 349. way better deal. the thing is great with xp, down clocks to 400 mhz when using minimal processes. The only bad thing is the 3 cell battery last 90 mins. and it has a dvd player and cd rw.
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YeuEmMaiMai |
lol not enough for the $
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d0g_p00p |
Man I have been waiting for this to come out to replace my EeePC. However with the specs being way underpowered I think I'll have to pass.
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LoneWolf15 |
I'll wait until I can see what the VIA Isaiah brings to the table --I think one of these with an Isaiah processor would be kickass.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13996 |