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Hello all,
Thought i'd make a thread containing all current netbooks and their specs
This thread i created on eBuyer so there is a lack of external links
All Netbooks on eBuyer can be found HERE
What is a 'netbook'?
Netbooks are "small laptops that are designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet. And they cost about £200, making Netbooks a potentially disruptive and high volume market segment. Even though Netbooks won’t be confused with full-featured laptops, my hunch is that tons of people around the world will be attracted to a low-cost machine that plugs them in. The Netbook will expand the global PC market. By how much is a matter of conjecture."
The term netbook was re-introduced by Intel in February 2008 to describe a category of small-sized, low-cost, light weight, lean function subnotebooks optimized for Internet access and core computing functions (e.g., word processing) — either directly from applications installed on the netbook itself or indirectly, via cloud computing. More than 50 million Netbooks are expected to be in widespread circulation by 2011.
If you own any of the following, feel free to come foward with reviews and i'll be more than happy to add them in!
Acer Aspire One
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:1.26kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Linplus (Linux)
Processor:Intel Atom @ 1.6 GHz
Storage:8GB SSD/120GB HDD
Memory:512MB/1024MB
Battery Life:3 Hours (3 cell) / 6-7 Hours (6 cell)
Price: Around £199
eBuyer: SHOULD Hopefully stock soon
Picture:http://weblogs2.nrc.nl/hebben/wp-content/uploads/06_2008/acer_aspire_one_00.jpg
Review By TimmyGCSE - Rep Him!
Looks
Amazing, sooooo nice. Much nicer then the eee 701
I've got the blue one and it suits the colour. My only gripe is the glossy finish shows the fingerprints like mad and it annoys me but apparently this is the same as the 901 so there we go. Its very sleek and stylish and Asus have got the styling perfect imo.
Usability
The keyboard is actually really really easy to type one, not quite full size but not far off, not made any typing mistakes due to the keyboard size. The mouse pad is a bit weird with the click buttons down the side but I'm getting used to it. In terms of opening it up etc. yea its brill, no complaints at all, all the buttons are in the right place, nothing to complain about.
Features
It certainly feels quick enough, though I've just ordered another 1GB of RAM (explain later). The atom CPU is pretty nice. The system boots so so damn quick. The battery is a little bit disappointing, around 2.5 - 2.75hours from a full charge but I expected that to start with anyway, all the reviews said it (and at the end of the day its no difference to 900). But its super light...seriously!
SSD space is a bit meh, 3.6GB free from 8GB but thats the OS really..see below
OS
Linpus and I got off to a bad start. I did the updates and it didn't work properly so I had to do a system restore, this is about 10 mins after turning it on! Anyway system restored, updates done (need to do em coz the keyboard won't work with UK layout) and all is good. Its very simple as you'd imagine, and its good for a basic do this do that but not really too advanced. I would highly recommend enabling the advanced mode and adding a start button to the menu, guides can be found on the aspire one users forum. This makes it alot better to use and you can do quite a fair bit that you would with a regular linux distro, I'm currently having a problem enabling the full desktop mode (it breaks all the settings programs and stuff when you do) so I'm hoping someone will tell me where I am going wrong with that on the aspire forums, I've got it working temporarily but when you reboot it will disappear so when I try and make it permanent thats when it doesn't work. When it works temporarily it looks really nice (xfce desktop so yea I like xfce). All in all though Linpus is rather clunky and not my idea of a distro, if I was to stick with Linux I'd stick xubuntu on tbh, still uses the xfce desktop but has the slickness of ubuntu. Like I said I've just ordered a gig of RAM, this is for XP. half a gig is enough for Linpus but I need my XP man!!
Other
Annoying - speakers are on the underside at the front so when its on your lap they get muffled by your trollies. Headphones need imo.
The fan is abit annoying but that could be again that my trousers are covering the fan holes up and thus it has to work harder (though this kinda defeats the name laptop eh )
Build quality is excellent, everything feels solid and not cheap and plasticy
Conclusion
All in all I'm very dead chuffed. There are a few niggles like the OS and battery life but there are always going to be compromises with devices like this imo, its just about managing them (for example putting XP on). I would recommend this device to anyone looking for a netbook that can't afford a 901
Intel Classmate PC
Screen Size:7.0"
Resolution:800x480
Weight:<1.45kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Mandriva, Debian (Linux)
Processor:Intel Celeron-M @ 0.9 GHz/900MHz
Storage:2GB NAND
Memory:256MB
Battery Life:Will Be Updated Soon
Price: TBC
Picture:http://voiceofsouth.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/classmate-pc.jpg
Everex CloudBook
Screen Size: 7.0"
Resolution: 800x480
Weight: 0.91KG/910g
OS Choice: gOS Rocket (Linux)
Processor: C7-M ULV @ 1.2GHz
Storage: 30GB HDD
Memory: 512MB
Battery Life: Will Be Updated Soon
Price: Around £340
Picture:http://www.mydigitallife.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/everex-cloudbook.jpg
Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Screen Size: 8.9"
Resolution: 1024x600
OS Choice: Windows XP (Linux version will soon be on the way)
Processor: Intel Atom @ 1.6GHz
Storage: 16GB SSD
Memory: 1GB
Price: £299 (Including delivery)
Battery Life: 5 Hours
Picture:http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/05/29/dell_mini_inspiron_02.jpg
Asus Eee PC 701
Screen Size:7.0"
Resolution:800x480
Weight:0.92/920gkg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Xandros (Linux)
Processor:Intel Celeron-M ULV 353 @ 0.9 GHz/900MHz
Storage:2/4/8GB SSD
Memory:512MB/1024MB
Battery Life: 2 hours 45 Mins
Price: £186.82
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134344
Picture:http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/11/13/asus_eee_1.jpg
Asus Eee PC 900
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:0.99kg/990g
OS Choice:Windows XP and Xandros (Linux)
Processor:Intel Celeron-M @ 0.9 GHz/900 MHz
Storage: 12/20GB SSD
Memory/RAM: 1024MB/1GB
Battery Life:3 Hours 30 Mins (4 cell)
Price: £227.97
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147117
Picture:http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/03/eee900conf.jpg
Asus Eee PC 901
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:1.14kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Xandros (Linux)
Processor:Intel Atom @ 1.6 GHz
Storage:12/20GB SSD
Memory/RAM: 1024MB/1GB
Battery Life: 4 Hours 15 Mins - 7 Hours 45 Mins
Price: £279.49
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146033
Picture:http://www.thinkmania.com/zb40/data/thinknews/5_14_08_eee901.jpg
Asus Eee PC 1000
Screen Size:10.2"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:1.33kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Xandros (Linux)
Processor:Intel Atom @ 1.6 GHz
Storage: 40GB SSD/80GB HDD
Memory/RAM: 2048MB/2GB
Battery Life: 7 hours
Price: £355.55
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146026
Picture:http://www.techtickerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/asus-eee-1000.jpg
Gigabyte M912
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1280x768
Weight:1.3kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Linux
Processor:Intel Atom @ 1.6 GHz
Storage: 120/160/250GB HDD
Memory/RAM: 1024/2048MB
Battery Life: Will Be Updated Soon
Price: Around £400
Picture:http://www.labzine.ro/pictures/72cb8c832a5b163928c44a8fc593f62f.jpg
Gigabyte M704
Screen Size:7.0"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:0.78kg/780g
OS Choice: Will Be Updated Soon
Processor:Intel C7-M @ 1.2 GHz
Storage: Will Be Updated Soon - HDD
Memory/RAM: Will Be Updated Soon
Battery Life: Will Be Updated Soon
Price: Around £500
Picture:http://img.hexus.net/v2/news/gigabytem704/m704.jpg
HP 2133 Mini-Note
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1280x800
Weight:1.27kg
OS Choice:Windows XP/Vista and Suse (Linux)
Processor:Intel C7-M @ 1-1.6 GHz
Storage: 4GB SDD / 120GB HDD
Memory/RAM: 512MB - 2048MB
Battery Life: 2 Hours (3 Cell) / 4 Hours (6 Cell)
Price: £398.17
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145007
Price:http://www.mrgadget.com.au/catalog/images/hp-2133-mininote_blog.gif
E-Lead Noahpad
Screen Size:7.0"
Resolution:800x480
Weight:0.78kg/780g
OS Choice: Ubuntu (Linux)
Processor:Intel C7-M @ 1 GHz
Storage: 30GB HDD
Memory/RAM: 512MB/0.5GB
Battery Life: Will Be Updated Soon
Picture:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2580298612_32b57226e0.jpg
Thought i'd make a thread containing all current netbooks and their specs
This thread i created on eBuyer so there is a lack of external links
All Netbooks on eBuyer can be found HERE
What is a 'netbook'?
Netbooks are "small laptops that are designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet. And they cost about £200, making Netbooks a potentially disruptive and high volume market segment. Even though Netbooks won’t be confused with full-featured laptops, my hunch is that tons of people around the world will be attracted to a low-cost machine that plugs them in. The Netbook will expand the global PC market. By how much is a matter of conjecture."
The term netbook was re-introduced by Intel in February 2008 to describe a category of small-sized, low-cost, light weight, lean function subnotebooks optimized for Internet access and core computing functions (e.g., word processing) — either directly from applications installed on the netbook itself or indirectly, via cloud computing. More than 50 million Netbooks are expected to be in widespread circulation by 2011.
If you own any of the following, feel free to come foward with reviews and i'll be more than happy to add them in!
Acer Aspire One
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:1.26kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Linplus (Linux)
Processor:Intel Atom @ 1.6 GHz
Storage:8GB SSD/120GB HDD
Memory:512MB/1024MB
Battery Life:3 Hours (3 cell) / 6-7 Hours (6 cell)
Price: Around £199
eBuyer: SHOULD Hopefully stock soon
Picture:http://weblogs2.nrc.nl/hebben/wp-content/uploads/06_2008/acer_aspire_one_00.jpg
Review By TimmyGCSE - Rep Him!
Looks
Amazing, sooooo nice. Much nicer then the eee 701
Usability
The keyboard is actually really really easy to type one, not quite full size but not far off, not made any typing mistakes due to the keyboard size. The mouse pad is a bit weird with the click buttons down the side but I'm getting used to it. In terms of opening it up etc. yea its brill, no complaints at all, all the buttons are in the right place, nothing to complain about.
Features
It certainly feels quick enough, though I've just ordered another 1GB of RAM (explain later). The atom CPU is pretty nice. The system boots so so damn quick. The battery is a little bit disappointing, around 2.5 - 2.75hours from a full charge but I expected that to start with anyway, all the reviews said it (and at the end of the day its no difference to 900). But its super light...seriously!
SSD space is a bit meh, 3.6GB free from 8GB but thats the OS really..see below
OS
Linpus and I got off to a bad start. I did the updates and it didn't work properly so I had to do a system restore, this is about 10 mins after turning it on! Anyway system restored, updates done (need to do em coz the keyboard won't work with UK layout) and all is good. Its very simple as you'd imagine, and its good for a basic do this do that but not really too advanced. I would highly recommend enabling the advanced mode and adding a start button to the menu, guides can be found on the aspire one users forum. This makes it alot better to use and you can do quite a fair bit that you would with a regular linux distro, I'm currently having a problem enabling the full desktop mode (it breaks all the settings programs and stuff when you do) so I'm hoping someone will tell me where I am going wrong with that on the aspire forums, I've got it working temporarily but when you reboot it will disappear so when I try and make it permanent thats when it doesn't work. When it works temporarily it looks really nice (xfce desktop so yea I like xfce). All in all though Linpus is rather clunky and not my idea of a distro, if I was to stick with Linux I'd stick xubuntu on tbh, still uses the xfce desktop but has the slickness of ubuntu. Like I said I've just ordered a gig of RAM, this is for XP. half a gig is enough for Linpus but I need my XP man!!
Other
Annoying - speakers are on the underside at the front so when its on your lap they get muffled by your trollies. Headphones need imo.
The fan is abit annoying but that could be again that my trousers are covering the fan holes up and thus it has to work harder (though this kinda defeats the name laptop eh )
Build quality is excellent, everything feels solid and not cheap and plasticy
Conclusion
All in all I'm very dead chuffed. There are a few niggles like the OS and battery life but there are always going to be compromises with devices like this imo, its just about managing them (for example putting XP on). I would recommend this device to anyone looking for a netbook that can't afford a 901
Intel Classmate PC
Screen Size:7.0"
Resolution:800x480
Weight:<1.45kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Mandriva, Debian (Linux)
Processor:Intel Celeron-M @ 0.9 GHz/900MHz
Storage:2GB NAND
Memory:256MB
Battery Life:Will Be Updated Soon
Price: TBC
Picture:http://voiceofsouth.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/classmate-pc.jpg
Everex CloudBook
Screen Size: 7.0"
Resolution: 800x480
Weight: 0.91KG/910g
OS Choice: gOS Rocket (Linux)
Processor: C7-M ULV @ 1.2GHz
Storage: 30GB HDD
Memory: 512MB
Battery Life: Will Be Updated Soon
Price: Around £340
Picture:http://www.mydigitallife.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/everex-cloudbook.jpg
Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Screen Size: 8.9"
Resolution: 1024x600
OS Choice: Windows XP (Linux version will soon be on the way)
Processor: Intel Atom @ 1.6GHz
Storage: 16GB SSD
Memory: 1GB
Price: £299 (Including delivery)
Battery Life: 5 Hours
Picture:http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/05/29/dell_mini_inspiron_02.jpg
Asus Eee PC 701
Screen Size:7.0"
Resolution:800x480
Weight:0.92/920gkg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Xandros (Linux)
Processor:Intel Celeron-M ULV 353 @ 0.9 GHz/900MHz
Storage:2/4/8GB SSD
Memory:512MB/1024MB
Battery Life: 2 hours 45 Mins
Price: £186.82
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134344
Picture:http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/11/13/asus_eee_1.jpg
Asus Eee PC 900
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:0.99kg/990g
OS Choice:Windows XP and Xandros (Linux)
Processor:Intel Celeron-M @ 0.9 GHz/900 MHz
Storage: 12/20GB SSD
Memory/RAM: 1024MB/1GB
Battery Life:3 Hours 30 Mins (4 cell)
Price: £227.97
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147117
Picture:http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/03/eee900conf.jpg
Asus Eee PC 901
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:1.14kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Xandros (Linux)
Processor:Intel Atom @ 1.6 GHz
Storage:12/20GB SSD
Memory/RAM: 1024MB/1GB
Battery Life: 4 Hours 15 Mins - 7 Hours 45 Mins
Price: £279.49
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146033
Picture:http://www.thinkmania.com/zb40/data/thinknews/5_14_08_eee901.jpg
Asus Eee PC 1000
Screen Size:10.2"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:1.33kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Xandros (Linux)
Processor:Intel Atom @ 1.6 GHz
Storage: 40GB SSD/80GB HDD
Memory/RAM: 2048MB/2GB
Battery Life: 7 hours
Price: £355.55
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146026
Picture:http://www.techtickerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/asus-eee-1000.jpg
Gigabyte M912
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1280x768
Weight:1.3kg
OS Choice:Windows XP and Linux
Processor:Intel Atom @ 1.6 GHz
Storage: 120/160/250GB HDD
Memory/RAM: 1024/2048MB
Battery Life: Will Be Updated Soon
Price: Around £400
Picture:http://www.labzine.ro/pictures/72cb8c832a5b163928c44a8fc593f62f.jpg
Gigabyte M704
Screen Size:7.0"
Resolution:1024x600
Weight:0.78kg/780g
OS Choice: Will Be Updated Soon
Processor:Intel C7-M @ 1.2 GHz
Storage: Will Be Updated Soon - HDD
Memory/RAM: Will Be Updated Soon
Battery Life: Will Be Updated Soon
Price: Around £500
Picture:http://img.hexus.net/v2/news/gigabytem704/m704.jpg
HP 2133 Mini-Note
Screen Size:8.9"
Resolution:1280x800
Weight:1.27kg
OS Choice:Windows XP/Vista and Suse (Linux)
Processor:Intel C7-M @ 1-1.6 GHz
Storage: 4GB SDD / 120GB HDD
Memory/RAM: 512MB - 2048MB
Battery Life: 2 Hours (3 Cell) / 4 Hours (6 Cell)
Price: £398.17
eBuyer:http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145007
Price:http://www.mrgadget.com.au/catalog/images/hp-2133-mininote_blog.gif
E-Lead Noahpad
Screen Size:7.0"
Resolution:800x480
Weight:0.78kg/780g
OS Choice: Ubuntu (Linux)
Processor:Intel C7-M @ 1 GHz
Storage: 30GB HDD
Memory/RAM: 512MB/0.5GB
Battery Life: Will Be Updated Soon
Picture:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2580298612_32b57226e0.jpg
Will certainly help some people to decide which to buy. I have been looking for a netbook but am going to a laptop because of my demands regarding CPU power and RAM.
