 Ultra-low-priced Notebook Fest < Cebit08, the eee pc effect snowballing |
 Mar 6 2008, 12:42 PM
Post
#1
|
|
 Group: Members Posts: 2,003 Joined: 16-April 04 From: the Netherlands && /dev/null Member No.: 2,882  |
http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-wor...hallenge-eee-pc
 I wish I was in Hannover now ... A long shot in the wild. What counts here will be: -- Screen resolution: the current 800x480 display on Eee PC will be the Achilles' heel for this line of product -- Battery: 3 hours is the minimum -- Price: US$500 or 550 at most -- Wireless solutions: builtin bluetooth is a must, WiMax crowns the winner -- No exotic design, PLEASE! Other things like RAM, appearance, OS, USB ports, card readers are not as important, even though presumably they must be reasonable enough. |
 |
 
|
 |
Replies
|
Mar 6 2008, 04:06 PM
Post
#2
|
|
 Group: Admin Posts: 3,277 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
the first laptops I saw were monochrome displays, small area but deep and chunky. they gradually got bigger and bigger, you paid a premium for a larger display, and eventually 14" displays were common. (I bought a 2nd hand 12" xga one, er, 8 years ago, still sort of works). then widescreens came out, 15", then 15.4, and some 17", the laptops became huge and powerful. now, you pay a premium for a small laptop!
and then the cycle will repeat... |
|
|
|
|
Mar 8 2008, 04:10 PM
Post
#3
|
|
|
Group: Members Posts: 793 Joined: 28-November 04 From: NM, US, sometimes Asia Member No.: 5,633 |
QUOTE(speculatrix @ Mar 7 2008, 08:06 AM)  the first laptops I saw were monochrome displays, small area but deep and chunky. they gradually got bigger and bigger, you paid a premium for a larger display, and eventually 14" displays were common. (I bought a 2nd hand 12" xga one, er, 8 years ago, still sort of works). then widescreens came out, 15", then 15.4, and some 17", the laptops became huge and powerful. now, you pay a premium for a small laptop! and then the cycle will repeat... I politely beg to differ.  The screen size and the laptops were not exactly congruent. Most of the early laptops (ignoring the pre-lap-usable portable computers!  ) were chunky at best and heavy in the range of 8++ pounds! Smaller sized computers had always been a premium. I doubt we are going to cycle back to big chunky laptops with monochrome displays. |
|
|
|
Posts in this topic
ZDevil Ultra-low-priced Notebook Fest < Cebit08 Mar 6 2008, 12:42 PM
ZDevil The Eee PC ... what's the deal?
In another ... Mar 9 2008, 12:33 PM
teh.sean QUOTE(ZDevil @ Mar 9 2008, 04:33 PM) The ... May 14 2008, 09:35 AM speculatrix The Reg has a few things to say, especially w.r.t.... Mar 9 2008, 01:07 PM ZDevil $600 is a crucial diving line of two differen... Mar 9 2008, 01:27 PM |
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 22nd May 2013 - 05:01 AM |