Bit heavy, though - if I could've justified keeping the 701 in addition, I would've, but that would've been silly.
Yeah, more or less I suppose.piku wrote:Meh, it's just an underpowered PC in a tiny case.
GMA 950? No, thanks.aureole wrote:I like the look of the new Toshiba NB200's - they're a blatant rip of the ASUS 1000HE, chiclet keyboard and 9-cell battery and all that, but still quite interesting. I might be biased, though.
Certainly won't be up to playing modern titles... And it costs a bloody fortune - way to miss the point of Netbooks Nvidia... Well yeah, it's not top of the range. At least you can tell what it is supposed to be capable of, since it apparently has a bog standard Geforce 9400 GPU (is that the same as a 9400GT?). If I understand the specs of it right (which is, as always, open to question), it ought to play say, FEAR or Stalker SOC at netbook resolutions.Bubba wrote:Thing is, I bet the ion performance isn't worth writing home about
And I'd imagine Nvidia can't be arsed to write XP drivers for it rather than it being "all Windows 7's fault"...
Cheers
Bubba
You're probably correct, it's well and truly annoying anyway, they were going (allegedly) to be out in late August/early September, now it's late October/early November.matt303 wrote:More like they are timing their new netbooks to ride on the marketing of Win7, which given my experience running it on my netbook works very well.
There is no evil plan at work here, take your lithium and relax.
Yeah, I saw that, but again it seems to be held until the release of Win7, and there seems to be a serious risk it will run the Atom with Pinetrail or some other intel chipset, which won't be as much use for mobile gaming as nVidia Ion would/will be.HGFB wrote:Nokia are releasing a netbook
I tried it a month or two ago, and whilst I think it looks very interesting from the screenshots and descriptions of how it should work, my experience with it (on a Dell Mini 9) was less than stellar. In particular their much touted social-networking-on-the-desktop fell at the first hurdle for me, as it failed to connect to my GMail account (and thus, Google Chat) using their own GMail Connection Wizard thing. It was able to browse the web, so I know the connection was fine, but that soured me from the outset.WiteWulf wrote:BTW, dunno if his got mentioned elsewhere already, but I gave that new Intel sponsored linux a go the other day, Moblin. It's quite impressive on my Aspire One, well worth checking out as they provide a LiveCD on a USB stick image for testing.
