The Netbook Thread

[Kemper_Boyd]

You made some good points there. I do agree that it's still a good computer.
Bigger trackpads or trackpoint would be a sensible update for future models.

This netbook market doesn't stand still.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/22 ... _revealed/

[WiteWulf]

PC World have the Acer Aspire One (8GB Linux) for £199 according to their
website. Product code: 705895

Ah well, that's our lass' birthday present sorted for next month, then. She's been hassling me for a new laptop for ages now ( her Tosh Satellite 2550 with 192MB RAM and Celeron 233MHz isn't quite as nippy as it once was )

Anyone run XP on one of these things? 1024x600 sounds like a minimum resolution for most stuff these days.

[Kemper_Boyd]

More of a giant PDA than a MID or UMPC.
http://www.hothardware.com/News/Albatro ... uchScreen/

[tufty]

FTFY - http://www.hothardware.com/News/Albatro ... ch-Screen/

It's hardly "Giant", though, it's slightly smaller than my newton, and half the weight. Indeed, I am very interested.

[Firefox]

It's hardly "Giant", though, it's slightly smaller than my newton, and half the weight. Indeed, I am very interested.

Shame you can't get Newton OS. It'd be really nice on that, and you could underclock it by half and still get very snappy performance.

[Kemper_Boyd]

FTFY - http://www.hothardware.com/News/Albatro ... ch-Screen/

It's hardly "Giant", though, it's slightly smaller than my newton, and half the weight. Indeed, I am very interested.

I've got some Newtons, they are huge compared to the Palm Pilots
I own. That thing has a screen commonly seen on photo frames.
It may be smaller than a netbook but it's not really pocketable.
That said if it's cheap, it really does use an SO-DIMM and it can
boot a different OS I would be very interested as well.

[moosedude]

And I hate to think what contortions you would need to go through to fake a middle-click using both buttons at once.

you get ready to rock..

[tufty]

It's hardly "Giant", though, it's slightly smaller than my newton, and half the weight. Indeed, I am very interested.

Shame you can't get Newton OS. It'd be really nice on that, and you could underclock it by half and still get very snappy performance.

As long as you own a physical Newton (or have access to a rom image, you dirty hacker), you can. http://code.google.com/p/einstein/ Newton OS can handle bigger screens than the MP2K had, so should be able to use all the screen real estate at least, and is almost sorta colour-enabled, although hacking colour in wouldn't suddenly colourise any older apps.

I've got some Newtons, they are huge compared to the Palm Pilots
I own. That thing has a screen commonly seen on photo frames.

They are, indeed, bigger than palms and the like. They are also vastly more usable (IMO) and useful. There's a reason mine is always with me, while my 3 palms languish, unloved, in a drawer somewhere.

[HGFB]

Do want

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/21 ... vista_scc/

[Thoughtcat]

My post just disappeared so sorry if this is duplicated, but PC World are also doing their own brand Advent 4211 for £280 (product code 219404) - for an extra tenner over the Asus you get quite a bit more memory, disk space and speed.

Also what are any of these machines like doing presentations via projector?

[Yak]

Do want

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/21 ... vista_scc/

Too small, stupid price, point missed.

[adam]

there were these tiny portable projectors (20" image 8x600 res) on the reg a couple of years back, i think something like that'd go well with these, don't know if they've been developed any further

[HGFB]

Too small, stupid price, point missed.

Just right, I can afford it, hits my point full on.

But I do get what you mean. A lot of companies (Including Asus oddly) seem to be forgetting that it's the "cheap" factor that draws people in.

[Thoughtcat]

there were these tiny portable projectors (20" image 8x600 res) on the reg a couple of years back, i think something like that'd go well with these, don't know if they've been developed any further

Cheers, what about connecting one to a regular projector for doing a Powerpoint presentation? I'm a bit crap on things like this, does the small screen size impact on the projected display? Basically I've got a nice Acer widescreen laptop but it weighs a ton and I'm thinking of getting a properly portable machine just for going into the office, doing presentations and surfing on the train.

[Firefox]

Most of the mini laptops have a standard VGA monitor connector on the side and can do a bit higher rez than their LCD (I think my EeePc 700 can do 1024x768; later models and other brands may be able to do better).