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Old 29-10-2007, 12:58   #11
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I did look at the M1210 as a possible lightweight traveling machine, simply because the M1710 is such a nice machine but haven't really looked into it too seriously yet as I won't be in a position to buy one for a little while.
The M1330 can be had now for around £700-800 with 2ghz 2gig 8400gm and the usual. Excellent bargain for the ultra portable. Well when Dell actually get around to shipping it...
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Old 29-10-2007, 22:56   #12
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El regamondo
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10...eee_pc_for_us/

$300-400. Now 150 wing wangs is a good price! Not gonna happen at that price, but if the EU has them a lot cheaper than us then I may venture into a shop when I'm next in France.
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Old 29-10-2007, 23:04   #13
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Who knows on the price.

But LOL at 'wing wangs'
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Old 31-10-2007, 20:44   #14
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Not sure about that Asus. If they're aiming for $250 then you can guarantee that it'll be £250 by the time it's on the shelves here. Unfortunately you can buy a proper laptop for £300 making this a bit pointless.
Just noticed OcUK are showing them for £190+VAT pre-order, which is a little better than we thought. A typical £300 laptop is certainly not likely to be thin and light, so it has a market segment.
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Old 31-10-2007, 23:06   #15
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Just noticed OcUK are showing them for £190+VAT pre-order, which is a little better than we thought. A typical £300 laptop is certainly not likely to be thin and light, so it has a market segment.
Was just going to post about this. Its not as painful as first thought, but still it can be got for £150 in the states. Also that comes with 512mb ram. Even linux would chug. If you want to watch films etc then really upping it to 2gb would be an ideal addon at an extra £40.
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Old 31-10-2007, 23:52   #16
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Linux will be very happy with 512MB unless you're doing really demanding stuff, and that laptop isn't designed for that anyway.

I'm currently using 128MB on one of my boxes, and close on 100MB of that is taken by server stuff. That box doesn't run a GUI though so give that 100MB back to the GUI.
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Old 05-02-2008, 00:26   #17
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Necropost time.

I bought one of these today and it's pretty cool. I got it from a shop here in Newcastle for £220.

Haven't had much of a chance to play with it properly yet but I'm off to Egypt tomorrow. I dare say we'll be quiet again this trip so I'll have something to keep me occupied whilst I'm away.

One thing I'm happy about is that rdesktop is installed as standard so it's a piece of cake remotely accessing my Windows machines either over the LAN or over the web

Here's a piccy with my hand next to it for scale:



I was concerned whether the screen might be too small to be much use but it's fine.
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Old 05-02-2008, 11:03   #18
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Damn that's small. I'm dead tempted by ones of those - like you say, great little remote control box and good little web browsing device. Could cludge my own Linux install on there too.

Hmm.

Thanks for the update Let us know how the battery life is
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Old 05-02-2008, 11:11   #19
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Let us know how the battery life is
Will do.

The OS on there is ok - it does the basics, which is what you'd be doing with the thing after all and has some handy features. I've thought about chucking Ubuntu on to it but it looks a bit fiddly. Might consider putting XP on it as there are instructions for doing so in the manual and there are XP drivers on the installation disc.
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Old 05-02-2008, 12:44   #20
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Strikes me as not a bad crack at a proper portable computer which can be used for prettymuch everything I need a portable computer for outside of a games machine or media centre. My only real concern is the size of the screen, maybe we need to be looking at a new approach to displays maybe OLED will allow a screen thin enough to roll up or something or connect the thing to a heads up glasses type arrangement?

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