They got rid of that stupid plug in handset thing besides the screen. That was a really stupid idea in the first place, who in the design department though that, that was a cool look?
Now all they need is a suitable model to demonstrate it's use in an everyday setting, say a kitchen drinking wine, or possibly another room in the house...
VIA revamps NanoBook sub-notebook platform
Anonymous Coward
Better screen, but... #
Posted Monday 2nd June 2008 14:17 GMT
...WTF is up with the battery? All these sub-notebooks seems to have one irritating thing wrong with them.
Guy
At least #
Posted Monday 2nd June 2008 15:47 GMT
They got rid of that stupid plug in handset thing besides the screen. That was a really stupid idea in the first place, who in the design department though that, that was a cool look?
Now all they need is a suitable model to demonstrate it's use in an everyday setting, say a kitchen drinking wine, or possibly another room in the house...
Anonymous Coward
@At least #
Posted Monday 2nd June 2008 18:54 GMT
I've never seen a kitchen drinking wine. Would be novel, but not sure it would make me buy a laptop particularly...
Mine's the one with the red-wine stains
Anonymous Coward
four-cell, "2600mA" #
Posted Tuesday 3rd June 2008 12:21 GMT
That's probably equivalent to the Asus 5200mAh battery, which is two sets of 2600mAh cells in series.
Of course none of this confusion would arise if people actually expressed these things in a unit of energy - watt-hours (Wh).