That's a shockingly high price for such an underpowered laptop. I know it's light, but my 1.6kg 12" Thinkpad X31 is light enough, thanks. Battery life will be a maximum of 2/3 quoted, so that's not much more than the 3h I get... and I have a spare battery as they're so cheap second hand.
BTW Vista is horribly sluggish on a P-M 1.4Ghz with 2GB RAM and a 7200RPM drive so I can't imagine it'll be fun on the Rock.
Shame they got the price point so wrong. With the eee pc at £200 and a 10" version on the way with nice offerings from ecs and others about to break through in the coming months there is no way im going to spend the better part of a grand on an under powered machine.
The 1st company to get a <1kg with inbuilt 3G modem, around 10" of screen and enough power to run modern web apps (eg goole docs etc) will get my cash. These devices hit home the value of web based apps. It wont matter if you lose it, you dont need much disk space (a nice small SSD will do!), come on the market for this stuff must be huge!
I hadn't realised the A110 was basically a P3 - no way would I run Vista on that!!
I have a P3-950 HP OmniBook 6000, with 1Gb RAM. It needed a reload, so I thought I'd bung Vista on it to see what it was like. It ran like an asthmatic three-legged donkey, not helped by the lack of Vista drivers for the ATI Rage (something) M graphics.
It still runs XP Pro quite nicely though - my Mum's getting it once I get round to putting XP on it again.
Looking at the picture, it's showing Flip-3D - I thought you couldn't do Aero Glass on a GMA-950?
Looks like a nice machine though, once you flatten it and put XP on, especially if that 6-hour battery life is on the stock battery. Screen's too low-res (and glossy) for me, but if you're after an ultra-portable...
The title was good and the spec of add ons is quite nice, but the price I can get three similar specs on a better chip as a 300 laptop has nearly all that now, and vista on something less than a gig CPU speed or RAM is suicide.
I will stick with my asus eee (sans le 'bikini' clad temptress)
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Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook
Jango
Sounds good but ... #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 08:42 GMT
... how fast will the memory hogging OS run on 1GB RAM and a non-core2duo processor ?
Anonymous Coward
Don't expect speed.. #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 09:56 GMT
It is a slow laptop - but then again these sort of machines often are. Sony TZ, for instance..
It's quite nicely made, however - brushed aluminium and such, and is tiny.
Quite appealing if the name doesn't bother you..
Anonymous Coward
How much?!? #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 09:56 GMT
£939! Who are they trying to kid? There are far better spec'ed 12" laptops from big name companies for way less than that.
dan russell
Sounds good but... #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 09:56 GMT
They won't sell many without a picture of a bird in bikini
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/paris_hilton_32.png
Paris Hilton
Ivor
Trialware... #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 09:56 GMT
No trialware... does that mean a without Vista spec is available? :)
Rik Hemsley
Thinkpad X series? #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 11:34 GMT
That's a shockingly high price for such an underpowered laptop. I know it's light, but my 1.6kg 12" Thinkpad X31 is light enough, thanks. Battery life will be a maximum of 2/3 quoted, so that's not much more than the 3h I get... and I have a spare battery as they're so cheap second hand.
BTW Vista is horribly sluggish on a P-M 1.4Ghz with 2GB RAM and a 7200RPM drive so I can't imagine it'll be fun on the Rock.
Jez
Looks good, but... #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 11:34 GMT
Shame they got the price point so wrong. With the eee pc at £200 and a 10" version on the way with nice offerings from ecs and others about to break through in the coming months there is no way im going to spend the better part of a grand on an under powered machine.
The 1st company to get a <1kg with inbuilt 3G modem, around 10" of screen and enough power to run modern web apps (eg goole docs etc) will get my cash. These devices hit home the value of web based apps. It wont matter if you lose it, you dont need much disk space (a nice small SSD will do!), come on the market for this stuff must be huge!
Simon
2 Power adaptors... #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 11:34 GMT
Why? Do they weigh 10kg each and you are supposed to leave one at the location you wish to use it often?
Alan Edwards
Vista on a P3?? #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 11:42 GMT
I hadn't realised the A110 was basically a P3 - no way would I run Vista on that!!
I have a P3-950 HP OmniBook 6000, with 1Gb RAM. It needed a reload, so I thought I'd bung Vista on it to see what it was like. It ran like an asthmatic three-legged donkey, not helped by the lack of Vista drivers for the ATI Rage (something) M graphics.
It still runs XP Pro quite nicely though - my Mum's getting it once I get round to putting XP on it again.
Looking at the picture, it's showing Flip-3D - I thought you couldn't do Aero Glass on a GMA-950?
Looks like a nice machine though, once you flatten it and put XP on, especially if that 6-hour battery life is on the stock battery. Screen's too low-res (and glossy) for me, but if you're after an ultra-portable...
Alan.
Philip McGaw
UK notebook specialist #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 13:09 GMT
do they sell many?
alistair millington
never heard of them #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 13:51 GMT
The title was good and the spec of add ons is quite nice, but the price I can get three similar specs on a better chip as a 300 laptop has nearly all that now, and vista on something less than a gig CPU speed or RAM is suicide.
I will stick with my asus eee (sans le 'bikini' clad temptress)
W
Wanted: #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 14:31 GMT
~10" screen / ~1kg
inbuilt 3G modem + WiFi
Enough grunt to run XP & Paint.NET without wheezing.
<£300
All I can think of is an upcomng 10" Eee w/ XP + 3 dongle. Any other suggestions?
fluffels
@How Much?!? #
Posted Friday 4th April 2008 07:33 GMT
"£939! Who are they trying to kid? There are far better spec'ed 12" laptops from big name companies for way less than that."
You do realise this is an ULTRAPORTABLE, like the MacBook Air... Not the same as any old crap from PC World.
And for an ULTRAPORTABLE, it's a fair price.
Running Vista on it, however, is a stretch.
Paris, because she can't run Vista either.
Anonymous Coward
XP #
Posted Friday 4th April 2008 11:05 GMT
Apparently you can opt for XP as well:
http://blog.whatlaptop.co.uk/page/whatlaptop?entry=reviewed_rock_pegasus_210
James Smith
Yesterday's parts with today's miniaturisation #
Posted Friday 4th April 2008 11:05 GMT
*yawn*.
It has a parallel HDD? I've pretty much forgotten those things existed!