Link: Huge collection of mini-note reviews
Are you like many others who is thinking of buying a mini-note PC World has written an article for you where they go through 12 different ones.
They are the ones here:
1. HP 2133
2. Acer Aspire One
3. Asus Eee 900
4. Asus Eee 901
5. Asus Eee 1000H
6. Asus Eee 701
7. MSI Wind
8. Dell Inspiron Mini 9
9. Packard Bell Nebo
10. Samsung NC10
11. Lenovo S10.
12. Lenovo IdeaPad U110
Considering that many of those not on the list are actually clones of the MSI Wind, so I think it looks like a pretty good overview where they have almost all the netbook machines. It gives a complete picture of the market for the Asus Eee PC killers, so you can safely build on this list when you take your choice of mini note. Yet it is technology we’re talking about, and especially Asus sends the new Eee PCs on the street like dirt from a tiny calf, so the list is probably outdated in a few months …
here you find the rest of the articles…
Asus Eee PC S101 launch in November
So this is the news from Asus, that they earlier proclaimed design versions of the Asus Eee PC: First Eee PC S101. This is about 10 inch mini note, which is kept at 1.1 kilo and contains relatively standard hardware.
So is it new about Asus’ earlier proclaimed design versions of the Asus Eee PC: First Eee PC S101. This is about a 10-inch mini-note, which is kept at 1.1 kg and contains relatively standard hardware. The specifications called: Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz CPU, 16 GB SSD, 10.2-inch LED display (and yes, the LED is pray than LCD), 0.3 MPixel webcam (Aw), Windows XP Home, 4-in-1 flash card reader ( a large SD card will probably be obvious to extend this Eee PC), multi-touch touchpad (so you can make iPhone / MacBook Air-style tricks on Eee PC tochpad) wireless network with 802.11n WiFi andBluetooth 2.0.
Besides the Asus Eee PC S101’s striking, slim design that not only comes in different colors, but reportedly also with better materials, the most important news is that Asus Eee PC S101 comes with a 4-cell battery that provides significantly better performance than 3-cell: about 4 hours, the Eee PC suck it out in the following PC World, while a standard 3-cell battery provides only a few hours of work.
Asus Eee PC S101 from the side – black model
The price is DKK from 4,500 to 5,000 when the Asus Eee PC S101 launched in Denmark in the middle of November. The appropriate time to get a good bite of the Christmas discounts. From here we have to applause over the new Eee PC machine that sounds like a perfect netbook with its 10 “screen, light weight and reportedly with a good keyboard, while the price, however makes us pout a bit .. If you think the MacBook Air killer, the price is digestive.
View video with Eee PC S101 at PC World
See a bunch of pictures of the Asus Eee PC S101
Asus Eee PC 900 gets even cheaper
On the 16th of october, sales of Asus Eee PC, and the birthday is has long ended, in the years we have sold more than 2 million Asus Eee PCs. It is now set as the reason fort he price of Eee PC 900 will be cheaper by approximately 300DKK so the final price is 2099,-
It is to be a very reasonable price. As you know, the Eee PC 900 standard specs, regarding the 9” inch screen and with 1 GB of RAM and WiFi. It differs from some competitors in having SSD/ flash disk on a total of 12 GB for Windows and 20 GB for the Linux model. The advantage is that the Eee PC 900 becomes a lot more durable in case you should drop it.
In return, the space is very limited. Similar to the most SSD, there is less battery power than the ordinary HDD it is also a plus. On the other hand many may count that there is only 900 mHz Celeron CPU. But you must remember that for many tasks such as email and surfing the web this is far enough – and even the 1.6 Ghz Atom CPU is faster, Atom representing a very choked machine so therefore it cannot be compared the same way such as a Celeron vs a P4 could in the old days. The battery is 4 cell and not a topnotch compared ti the Asus Eee PC 901, but the battery life is still expected to be better than for example the MSI Wind and Acer Aspire One.
Asus drops Linux on Eee PC
Since Asus has launched its Eee PC with Linux there hasn’t been any happy reviews given. This should be the catalyst that has brought Linux to the people and thereby again generating some competition in the market for OS. Other netbook followed with plans on having Linux operating system, such as Acer Aspire One. The case is the one that so far it has only been 30% of all netbooks that were with Linux, but the other 70% netbooks are sold with Windows XP, ( there are few netbooks that is sold with Vista for example HP, but this is a minority.)
Asus Eee PC 901
The minor set back on sales has led Asus to totally dropped selling machines with Linux. It is the logistics with its many different models must then be found in 2 OS variants that are the problem. Asus believes that it’s simply not worth it.
My personal opinion is that it’s such a shame that Linux is now cut completely away from Asus side. But I can easily understand them , Asus has certainly got a damn good offer from Microsoft as soon as they started to see Netbook Linux distribution as a threat. I can also easily understand the buyers side, my upcoming netbook will definitely also be Windows. Simply because I have a lot of small programs that I can use on it and everything is just easier.
The idea that Linux can take advantage of the scaled down resources much better than Windows, I still find it really good, but with Asus out of the market, Acer primary plays as the Linux dealer for netbooks, but with a lousy strategy the Acer Aspire One’s netbook sold with Linux is scaled down compared to XP versions for example with 512 MB of RAM instead of 1 GB and then the whole things done.
Darn.
And so Linux is back on the Asus Eee PC
After massive criticism of Asus the choice to remove Linux from their machines and only sell Eee PC with Windows XP, they have withdrawn that decision.
Linux is back in the heat of the Asus Eee PC ..!
There is at least a couple of new Eee PCs from Asus next year and will be existing Eee PC models still continue to be sold in both Windows XP and Linux variants …
Aldi sells MSI clone this Wednesday
SO, Aldi back on track with a very fine offer on an Eee PC killer: 2999, – for a 10 “netbook with the following right standard specs:
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• 160 GB SATA Hard Drive
• Bluetooth ® USB 2.0 mini adapter
• 10 “TFT widescreen display (1024 x 6000 px) ensures optimal controls
• Fast WLAN: Wireless LAN 802.11 b / g Draft-n with up to 300 Mbit / s.
• Software: Microsoft ® Windows ® XP Home Edition (including Service Pack 3)
• Graphics Power: Intel ® Graphics Media Accelerator 950
• Photographs – Internet – Telephony: Integrated VGA webcam and microphone
• 1.6 GHz Intel ® Atom (TM) processor N270
• USB 2.0 interface for your digital camera, printer, etc.
• 1 GB of memory
• Multi-Card Reader (SD, MMC and MS)
Connections:
Multi Card Reader for SD, MMC & Memory Stick, 3x USB 2.0, 1 x VGA out, 1 x network (RJ45), 1x microphone, 1x Line out
Gigantic software package:
Microsoft ® Windows ® XP Home Edition (including Service Pack 3), Corel ® WordPerfect ® Office X3 (OEM versions preinstalled and / or on CD / DVD or recovery-DVD/-CD
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Bluetooth and larger HD are welcome improvements over the Medion Akoya they had for sale earlier this year. They write further: “Li-ion battery with high performance” ..Arhhh … Watch IT its enough to take your mouth too full! The weight suggests that it is just a 3-cell battery on this machine. And it is clearly the biggest drawback .
I am “obviously” Eee PC fan – but the reasons for selecting Medion Akoya offer over the Asus Eee PC 901’eren would be the screen size and possibly the use of too much disk space (which is endurable general kind, rather than the shock-resistant SSD model as most Asus Eee PC running). An extra inch does not sound much but actually looks more – so depending on use, it may be important. For email and Word, I do not care. Should I read the other hand, REALLY, really a lot of text on the train or make a little graphic (NOT design – you must not fool yourself that you can on any of them), so I want the extra inch to get “the magnified image up on “..
But the extra inch makes so only 3-cell battery even more miserable, because the screen is of course a vicious bloodsucker. So my guess is that the battery provides approximately one hour of concentrated use, while the Asus Eee PC would hold 4-5 x as much time
See Medion Akoya info advertising here
See Aldis website here with the Medion Akoya specs