The Netbook Thread

[HGFB]

Half Life 1 is fine on my Eee 900

[t0ne]

Isn't the Raon Digital Everun Note supposed to be quite pokey when it comes to games. Not available until the end of this month though.

[Misfit]

Isn't the Raon Digital Everun Note supposed to be quite pokey when it comes to games. Not available until the end of this month though.

Around September 17th is the word on the street.

The Everun is a lot more powerful than any of the Netbooks by some margin. The tests on UMPC Portal last night were very encouraging.

It's not going to be an awesome games machine but should stomp the Atom based devices. Chippy was playing some 2005 driving game pretty nicely on it last night in the live show.

[t0ne]

And it's got a touch screen too. Want.
Have you heard anything about pricing for it ?

[zip accident]

And it's got a touch screen too. Want.
Have you heard anything about pricing for it ?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/01/raon ... -brochure/

Says $879. Too expensive, and not enough graphics grunt (I think, what does ATi GS690E mean, except not Radeon and tied to AMD processors?).

[Dio]

X1300 class, I think, although even I get confused sometimes.

[t0ne]

And it's got a touch screen too. Want.
Have you heard anything about pricing for it ?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/01/raon ... -brochure/

Says $879. Too expensive, and not enough graphics grunt (I think, what does ATi GS690E mean, except not Radeon and tied to AMD processors?).

Eeek! yes too expensive. That'll be £499 or more over here I bet

[Misfit]

And it's got a touch screen too. Want.
Have you heard anything about pricing for it ?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/01/raon ... -brochure/

Says $879. Too expensive, and not enough graphics grunt (I think, what does ATi GS690E mean, except not Radeon and tied to AMD processors?).

Eeek! yes too expensive. That'll be £499 or more over here I bet

More than that, the first Euro based importers to get it have it at 650 Euros (£529), without OS and postage:

http://www.mobilx.hu/raon-digital-everun-note-umpc.html

For it's power/price it is very competitive in the UMPC market, but way out of the netbook league.

[Kemper_Boyd]

Now this is more like it should be.
http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/98-linux-l ... n-mininote

[Kronos]

£529 for a Netbook? That makes the Commodore Netbook look positively cheap!

The Dell does look nice, this could do with some further investigation........

[dom]

Having sent my Eee 901 back to "superetrader" due to a defect in the backlight (not pixel failure, as it is behind the pixels), they sent it back with a scribbled note saying they didn't think it was more than 1 pixel (grr), so I contacted ASUS themselves.

I filled-out the form on
http://rma.asus.de/pick_eu/pickup.asp?c ... m=eee_pick but never got an e-mail from them.

I just called and was told that they have a problem with their mail server, and that I should receive labels and instructions for sending the laptop back to them in the post by the middle of next week. It turns-out that the letters had already arrived, but they were hiding in the postroom, so I'm hoping they actually do agree that this constitutes a failed flatpanel backlight - if they don't I guess I should be able to request a full refund, assuming I get it back within 28 days of having purchased the unit.

Dom

[benedictw]

Now this is more like it should be.
http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/98-linux-l ... n-mininote

$120 initially, according to slashdot.

If they sold that for 120 quid then it would stampede out of the shops, all by itself.

[Firefox]

Now this is more like it should be.
http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/98-linux-l ... n-mininote

$120 initially, according to slashdot.

If they sold that for 120 quid then it would stampede out of the shops, all by itself.

Pretty snappy performance, too.

Just a shame about the Fn key being where Ctrl should be...

[Thoughtcat]

Amazon is joining up with the One Laptop Per Child project so that from November you can buy an XO laptop for yourself and donate a second one to a schoolchild in a developing country. OLPC did this in the US a year ago with the 2 laptops costing $398.

Story

Spec

[Viscount Charles]

Buy an Asus EEE PC 901 this week, or wait two months for the lenovo S10? Lenovo have delivered on some quality gear in the past, but it's likely to be more expensive than the EEE. Decisions, decisions.

So I bought an Asus Eee 1000H - that's the XP one with 80gig HDD and 90% sized keyboard (with the right Shift key inconveniently placed - like most of the netbooks with 90% keyboards).

After a couple of days "buyer's remorse", I'm pretty chuffed with it. I chose it over the 901 because the screen is brighter and the keyboard much easier to type on, chose it over the Wind etc because of the battery life, and chose it over the Dell/Lenovo because I could have it NOW and without any worries about what the price/battery life would actually end up being.

Downsides are that it's a little bigger and heavier than some of its rivals will be, and at £350 it's about £50 more than it should be. Oh, and the track pad buttons are bloody awful (you have to press FAR too hard, and it hurts the side of my thumb - fixed by ordering a BT mouse). And TRU only had the white ones in stock (which look a bit girly).

Getting around 5 hours of use out of the battery on a single charge so far (does anyone know of a good app that will track this for me?).

It's particularly good at playing TV shows using VLC. Are there any other "killer apps"? I'm running XP, have Open Office installed, and Google Chrome - anything else jump out at people as being important?