Pioneering...?

Submitted by bart3385 on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 8:05am

"We are pioneering new territory in the developing netbook arena by being the first vendor to give customers high quality video and entertainment capabilities in a netbook with optional Nvidia Ion graphics."

My netbook: Asus N10J
Quick specs: Atom N270, 2gb, Nvidia GeForce 9300M GS 256mb, HD 250gb (other variant has 320), Draft N + BT, Altec Lansing, HMDI, 6-cells

 I've been using this in my office and field work since December. Running primarily MS Office, AutoCAD 2009, Staad Pro, plus a plethora of other technical and entertainment softwares, on the built-in Vista Home Premium.

It's got great video capabilities -- full-endulgement of Aero, video entertainment (although the 600 pixels deep screen is a bit wanting), constantly creating and manipulating bloated 3D drawings that come typically at 30mb-50mb files sizes (which the full-spec HP desktop running Core2Duo at the office very often gives up on). Plus great sounds, both on the speakers or on wireless stereo bluetooth. I'm also running vmware with XP and Windows 7 on it!

There's also something great about this netbook brand. My 17" Fujitsu Core2Duo laptop running the same Vista Home Premium is kinda buggy. The Vista on it can't seem to work smoothly, although with no serious damage or handicap. There's just several little things that won't work as expected. Small nuisances. While my tiny Asus netbook works smoothly from Day 1. Never had any trouble with its Vista. (I still couldn't quite understand why 2 exact same version of Vista works differently on these 2 brands.) By the way, both are already updated to SP1.

 

Now back to my main point. Pioneering...???

On what?

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I still prefer the 8 inch

Submitted by Bless on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 11:06pm

I still prefer the 8 inch tho, it snugged nicely in my purse.

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not really great for gaming while travelling

Submitted by linkmaster6 on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 12:35pm

Just gonna through this out there, unless they change and add one, it doesn't have an optical drive. So unless your content with playing a solo game with a crack or want to shell out another (minimum) 50 bones for an optical drive so you can play online you're a little SOL

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12 inch

Submitted by sasquatch42 on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 10:40am

12 inch screen!=netbook

 

its just an ion based notebook

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S10 Comparison?

Submitted by Redeye on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 10:27am

I wonder how this stacks up in 'performance' with Lenovo's S10, which my wife owns and uses.  The graphics are what get my interest.  I do a lot of business travel, as well as my wife, and I would like to be able to throw down with Guild Wars or TF2 in my hotel room at night, but don't particularly appreciate lugging around my 15" laptop.  A nice 12" netbook/notebook (whatever) for this price is appealing to me.  I may consider this come June.

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I think netbook is meant to

Submitted by Bless on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 9:19am

I think netbook is meant to be an  instrument of net (you know, under powered just enough to access the net and doing some simple office job,while geared for small screen for people on the go and easy travelling). making it to have the abilities of a laptop is just way too scary, since there will be no more boundaries beetween them. Having a 12 inch screen in a netbook is like having a grandfather clock in real life, and price is way too expensive. I would preferably opt for a 14 inch better powered laptop considering the price.

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netbook?

Submitted by aviaggio on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 8:54am

Maybe it's just me, but any laptop that starts at $450 is NOT a netbook. The concept of a netbook is a small dirt cheap portable device that's used primarily for all things net -- email, web surfing, social networking, etc., with the occasional office duty.

Why on earth would I spend $450 for a laptop with a single core processor and 12" screen when I could spend LESS and get a dual core processor, 14" (or larger) screen, and an optical drive?

Smaller with less features = less money, not more money.

The reason the 1st generation of netbooks sold so well was cause they were inexpensive at $250-$300. Price is a HUGE selling point. Crank up the price to that of regular laptops and I can't imagine they're going to sell.

What we need are for "netbooks" to get MORE affordable, not less. Get the price down to around $200 and they'll sell like mad.

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Eh

Submitted by nmanguy on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 8:41am

I still wouldn't buy a netbook at least until the dual core atoms come out.

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