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But if it's running Linux too .... #

By Rob Sked Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 22:21 GMT

.... wouldn't you be able to just trash thegOS and put Ubuntu on instead?

Few notes about this machine #

By Hetz Ben Hamo Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 23:34 GMT

If you thought that EEE has crappy mouse, then take a look at this machine, it's "pad" is above the keyboard and maybe works great if you have baby fingers, but adult fingers won't work well with this micro-tiny touchpad.

2nd, 1.2Ghz VIA C7-M is NOT faster compared to whats inside EEE. Go ahead, benchmark them and see for yourself.

Looking at the machine itself, EEE looks WAY better, while Cloudbook looks .. bulkier..

Where is the babe? #

By Robert Moore Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 23:57 GMT

I can't buy this, the picture doesn't include a hot chick on the beach.

I for one will only buy ... #

By Uwe Dippel Posted Friday 11th January 2008 00:32 GMT

... the one that comes with the bird.

Sorry, Everex, I don't go for your shiny metal, as long as there is a bird on the beach coming with Asus!

@but if it's... #

By xyz Posted Friday 11th January 2008 06:38 GMT

Mate of mine has an Epc running XP.

Battery? #

By Peter Kay Posted Friday 11th January 2008 10:14 GMT

It's Eee uselessness all over again.

If it wants to be a pick up and go mobile device, it needs to have lots of battery life (at least 6 hours, preferably 10).

If, on the other hand, if it's a cheap laptop, the screen resolution is *far* too small. Absolute minimum of 600 vertical pixels, please.

@Rob Sked #

By Tim Parker Posted Friday 11th January 2008 10:22 GMT

> .... wouldn't you be able to just trash thegOS and put Ubuntu on instead?

Rob, you may want to look at what gOS is based on before doing that (and it's reasonably straight forward to change the look-and-feel of the desktop once you get it)

The dream roadwarrior machine has finally arrived #

By Anton Ivanov Posted Friday 11th January 2008 12:02 GMT

What most reviewers are missing is that the Laptop has hardware AES accelaration. As a result it can deliver 50Mbit plus AES with virtually 0 CPU load. It is the dream road warrior machine for any shop with a good VPN setup.

@Tim Parker #

By Rob Sked Posted Friday 11th January 2008 12:53 GMT

Wow, that'll learn me to research before making that sort of comment.

it doesn't matter #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 11th January 2008 15:47 GMT

If the rumors are true, Jobs is going to reduce them both to irrelevancy at the upcoming Mac Expo with their new UMPC - half a mm thin, touch screen, 10ghz core 2 duo... i do love the rumors.

UMPC : The Return of the Psion 5MX #

By Mark Daniels Posted Sunday 13th January 2008 06:30 GMT

It struck me that all these three meachines look very familiar. And that is becuase I still [still!!] use my Psion 5X. A month of a pair of Double A's, touch screen, expandable memory port, infrared.

Ok, so it is pretty poor at doing 'on line stuff', but as far as I can see, that is about the only draw back of this amazing device.

All four devices [the three UMPC's and the 5MX] can synch with email clients, al synch with calendar clients, all play games, they all open MS Docs [although the MX does not supoort ODF : Ten years too early i sorry to say !!].

The 5MX is still the best PDA I know. UMPC's are, after all, just PDA's surely............?

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