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Optical Drive-Equipped Eee PC Blurs the Netbook Boundary

Posted 03/31/09 at 10:37:45 AM  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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TAGS: mobile, asus, optical, hardware, eee PC, netbook, 1004DN
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avatarall that wasted space and

Submitted by MRrelabled on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 9:10am

all that wasted space and power for an optical drive, again technology goes backwards.

Hey but can I plug it into a cigarette lighter ?

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avatarDon't be hating on

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 1:18pm

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. 

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avatarIt's getting to be about

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 8:47am

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. 

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avatar We don't need no stinking

Submitted by RedAnt751 on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 11:38pm

 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.

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avatarRemember it's also a PC as

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 2:11pm

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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