Optical Drive-Equipped Eee PC Blurs the Netbook Boundary
Optical Drive-Equipped Eee PC Blurs the Netbook Boundary
Posted 03/31/2009 at 8:37am
| by Paul Lilly
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As ultraportable PCs become more powerful and increasingly feature-rich, it might soon be difficult to discern where netbooks stop and standard notebooks begin. Such is nearly the case with Asus' new Eee 1004DN, the first Eee ever to integrate a Super-Multi optical disc drive.
The addition of a CD/DVD burner addresses a common complaint among netbook and potential netbook owners, particularly those who might want to use one as their primary PC (Protip: Don't do it). Other specs on the 1004DN are decidedly more standard-fare and include a 10-inch LED-backlit 1024 x 600 display, Intel's Atom N280 processor (1.66GHz, 512k L2 cache, 667MHz frontside bus), up to 2GB DDR2 memory, Intel GMA 4500M graphis, up to 120GB hard drive, 1.3MP webcam, and 6-cell battery.
No word yet on price or availability.
Image Credit: Asus
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MRrelabled
March 31, 2009 at 10:10am
all that wasted space and power for an optical drive, again technology goes backwards.
Hey but can I plug it into a cigarette lighter ?
Keith E. Whisman
March 31, 2009 at 2:18pm
Don't be hating on innovation. I'm hoping that it comes with fold out tools like spoon, fork or spork, knives and a corkscrew. Perhaps one day soon a manufacturer will be smart enough to build a swiss army knife into it's netbook design.
Keith E. Whisman
March 31, 2009 at 9:47am
It's getting to be about that time to get one of these netbooks. Now that manufacturers have listened to reason and figured out a way of integrating an optical drive and in at least one netbook a tablet conversion that most netbooks should be able to do.
These netbooks scream out touch screen. These small screens need to be touch screens and that can be implimented cheaply without increasing the cost of manufacture and the over all retail price by very much. Same thing with the optical drive.
RedAnt751
April 01, 2009 at 12:38am
We don't need no stinking Optical drives, They are missing the point of what a netbook is.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Keith E. Whisman
April 01, 2009 at 3:11pm
Remember it's also a PC as well as being a netbook and a PC puts no restrictions on what it can integrate. I think that a Netbook can be alot of things to alot of people. As long as it fits my needs I really don't care what it's called.
So try looking at it like that. Don't get in the way of innovation.
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