Asus Eee PC 1005PE Intel launched its latest generation of netbook-centric Atom processors right at the end of 2009. While the following weeks saw plenty of announcements heralding new machines based on the chips, those PCs have only now started to arrive on shop shelves. Asus is, of course, the genuine pioneer of the netbook arena, launching …
The pinetrail ATOM processor is about saving money for intel, not boosting performance; the chipset is to all intents and purposes the same as the old one, it's just moved from two chips to one. There is an article about it on anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3728
What happed to the 'cheap' part of SCC? Is this some sort of con orchestrated by MS in order to make Win7 'seem' affordable. I note the lack Linux for the latest crop of netbooks - that would show the true cost of win7.
A netbook needs to be <£300 (preferably <£250) otherwise it's just a small, underpowered laptop...
Thanks to Ballmer ramping up netbook prices using Windoze, these things are just too damn expensive. A full laptop is around the same price - not as small, but way more powerful. This should be £200.
And where's the Linux version? Presumably a casualty of the deal between netbook makers and the aforementioned overweight bane of the IT industry.
Evil Bill, 'cause there's no Evil Ballmer.
I've got a Eee 1000, one of the last models to still have Linux pre-installed before Asus drank the Windows koolaid. I have long-since replaced the Xandros-based install with Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and just recently upgraded the flash hdd to 64GB. I love the speed of the SSD, and the system performance is tolerable. It's not speed demon, but it does well what it's advertised to be: a light and portable, ultra-low-powered, Internet browsing machine. My only real complaint after a year of use is I find the small keyboard too cramped to do extensive typing.
I can't imagine what the SATA HDD and Windows 7 do to battery life, but it's got to hurt it bad. I'd love to see another review with a user-installed copy of linux (any flavor) on it, and see how the performance numbers compare. Netbooks were born for SSD and light-weight OS. Seems to my that trying to squeeze Windows on one defeats (at least half) the purpose.
Yes, you could say I was somewhat of a Linux-fanboi. Not militant, mind you. I just like to have choices.
Picked one of these up in the US just after release date as I travel a lot and wanted a netbook with good battery life. This it has, but I wished I'd read some more reviews before purchase. It's a nice light machine and does standard web-browsing fine but it struggles with flash-heavy sites and stutters like crazy when trying to play 480p or upward YouTube videos. I haven't tried any HD mkv/h.264 videos yet but I've heard it refuses to play 1080p and only works with 720p with CoreAVC codec on the most stripped-down options. Spending a couple of weeks stuck in a hotel room in the middle of nowhere and no car or option of escaping, I wish I'd paid the $50 more and got an Ion-based 'book with dvi/hdmi so I could have connected it to the in-room HDTV and watched some films through it.
These latest netbooks seem pointless, they're not significantly smaller or lighter than full laptops, and they're not significantly cheaper either.
Where are the netbooks that exist somewhere between a highly powered mobile phone ( Nokia N900 ) and a full laptop ?
I'd love to buy something like the original Asus Eee PC 701 ( but with less bezel around the screen and thus a larger LCD , but not larger overall form factor. )
I'd love there to be a netbook that weighs around 800 - 900 grams
And it would be running Linux on an SSD of around 12 - 20 GB.
Most of all it would cost less than 200 quid.
The netbook idea as implemented by Asus, Samsung, Acer , Toshiba and the rest seems now to be approaching bloated middle age ( a bit like me), and that's never an enticing place to be.
Netbooks need to be lean - mean and cheap. Something that's better than browsing/emailing on a crackberry/other-mobile-phone. They do NOT need to be full PC replacements, capable of HD Video.
Please someone tell the manufacturers this.
Still the best imho. small, cheap, does the job.
mine triple boots osx, win 7 and xp.
plays 720p no bother. I use it on holidays to edit movies in imovie, etc no bother - even using it to edit gopro HD footage... I mean it ain't quick.. but its better than not being able to do it.
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