If you thought that EEE has crappy mouse, then take a look at this machine, it's "pad" is above the keyboard and maybe works great if you have baby fingers, but adult fingers won't work well with this micro-tiny touchpad.
2nd, 1.2Ghz VIA C7-M is NOT faster compared to whats inside EEE. Go ahead, benchmark them and see for yourself.
Looking at the machine itself, EEE looks WAY better, while Cloudbook looks .. bulkier..
> .... wouldn't you be able to just trash thegOS and put Ubuntu on instead?
Rob, you may want to look at what gOS is based on before doing that (and it's reasonably straight forward to change the look-and-feel of the desktop once you get it)
The dream roadwarrior machine has finally arrived #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 12:13 GMT
What most reviewers are missing is that the Laptop has hardware AES accelaration. As a result it can deliver 50Mbit plus AES with virtually 0 CPU load. It is the dream road warrior machine for any shop with a good VPN setup.
If the rumors are true, Jobs is going to reduce them both to irrelevancy at the upcoming Mac Expo with their new UMPC - half a mm thin, touch screen, 10ghz core 2 duo... i do love the rumors.
It struck me that all these three meachines look very familiar. And that is becuase I still [still!!] use my Psion 5X. A month of a pair of Double A's, touch screen, expandable memory port, infrared.
Ok, so it is pretty poor at doing 'on line stuff', but as far as I can see, that is about the only draw back of this amazing device.
All four devices [the three UMPC's and the 5MX] can synch with email clients, al synch with calendar clients, all play games, they all open MS Docs [although the MX does not supoort ODF : Ten years too early i sorry to say !!].
The 5MX is still the best PDA I know. UMPC's are, after all, just PDA's surely............?
Velocity Micro Edge Z30 Midsize Desktop (2.66GHz Intel Core i5 750, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, DVD±RW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit)
Apple iMac All-In-One Desktop (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR2, 1TB, DVD+-RW DL, Mac OS X v10.5 Snow Leopard, 27" LCD)
HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion p6210f Mini-Tower Desktop (2.6GHz Athlon II X4 620, 6GB DDR2, 640GB HDD, DVD±RW DL, Windows 7 Home Premium)
HP (Hewlett-Packard) Compaq Presario CQ5210F Mini-Tower Desktop (2.7GHz Athlon 64 X2 215, 3GB DDR2, 500GB, DVD±RW DL, Windows 7 Home Premium)
Apple iMac All-In-One Desktop (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR2, 500GB, DVD+-RW DL, Mac OS X v10.5 Snow Leopard, 21.5" LCD)
Everex targets Eee PC with higher spec mini laptop at same price
Rob Sked
But if it's running Linux too .... #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 01:18 GMT
.... wouldn't you be able to just trash thegOS and put Ubuntu on instead?
Hetz Ben Hamo
Few notes about this machine #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 01:18 GMT
If you thought that EEE has crappy mouse, then take a look at this machine, it's "pad" is above the keyboard and maybe works great if you have baby fingers, but adult fingers won't work well with this micro-tiny touchpad.
2nd, 1.2Ghz VIA C7-M is NOT faster compared to whats inside EEE. Go ahead, benchmark them and see for yourself.
Looking at the machine itself, EEE looks WAY better, while Cloudbook looks .. bulkier..
Robert Moore
Where is the babe? #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 01:18 GMT
I can't buy this, the picture doesn't include a hot chick on the beach.
Uwe Dippel
I for one will only buy ... #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 01:18 GMT
... the one that comes with the bird.
Sorry, Everex, I don't go for your shiny metal, as long as there is a bird on the beach coming with Asus!
xyz
@but if it's... #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 09:05 GMT
Mate of mine has an Epc running XP.
Peter Kay
Battery? #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 10:20 GMT
It's Eee uselessness all over again.
If it wants to be a pick up and go mobile device, it needs to have lots of battery life (at least 6 hours, preferably 10).
If, on the other hand, if it's a cheap laptop, the screen resolution is *far* too small. Absolute minimum of 600 vertical pixels, please.
Tim Parker
@Rob Sked #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 10:26 GMT
> .... wouldn't you be able to just trash thegOS and put Ubuntu on instead?
Rob, you may want to look at what gOS is based on before doing that (and it's reasonably straight forward to change the look-and-feel of the desktop once you get it)
Anton Ivanov
The dream roadwarrior machine has finally arrived #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 12:13 GMT
What most reviewers are missing is that the Laptop has hardware AES accelaration. As a result it can deliver 50Mbit plus AES with virtually 0 CPU load. It is the dream road warrior machine for any shop with a good VPN setup.
Rob Sked
@Tim Parker #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 12:59 GMT
Wow, that'll learn me to research before making that sort of comment.
Anonymous Coward
it doesn't matter #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 16:10 GMT
If the rumors are true, Jobs is going to reduce them both to irrelevancy at the upcoming Mac Expo with their new UMPC - half a mm thin, touch screen, 10ghz core 2 duo... i do love the rumors.
Mark Daniels
UMPC : The Return of the Psion 5MX #
Posted Sunday 13th January 2008 09:45 GMT
It struck me that all these three meachines look very familiar. And that is becuase I still [still!!] use my Psion 5X. A month of a pair of Double A's, touch screen, expandable memory port, infrared.
Ok, so it is pretty poor at doing 'on line stuff', but as far as I can see, that is about the only draw back of this amazing device.
All four devices [the three UMPC's and the 5MX] can synch with email clients, al synch with calendar clients, all play games, they all open MS Docs [although the MX does not supoort ODF : Ten years too early i sorry to say !!].
The 5MX is still the best PDA I know. UMPC's are, after all, just PDA's surely............?
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