This things looks hot, and I love the size of it. Although it's "cheap" it's still relatively-expensive, but is this now the spiritual successor to the 12" Power Book? Is this the natural response to netbooks?
I like the idea of a lilliputian laptop powered by something other than the Atom and I have to say this looks real good.
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Premium Netbook; actually worth it? Resurrection of the 12" Power Book?
And the starting price of this beast is a grand total of $799 via engadget and web page code. At that price this makes a compelling portable laptop with gaming potential. IT could probably smoke my current tower at games i play..
Hell I''m just buying it based on its power and size! It's the size of a magazine, but can run CAD, and the most recent games with ease, and it has good battery life on top of that, so anything more than that is just icing on the cake. No word on how light it is, but I'm hoping that it comes in under 4 pounds.
Well to be fair I have a hackintosh Dell Mini 9 w/ a giant "Rad Rad Robotank" vinyl sticker on it that I bring with me to work; no one at the engineering company I work for seems to mind so the styling doesn't put me too off. Actually, a stealth Alienware (outside only, no ribbing, back alien head logo) would be pretty neat.
It is nice to see something is this size that straddles the line between sacrificing all in the name of a sub $500 price point, and business class $1500-$2000 machines. The "2 hour" battery life with the GPU in use is a little disheartening to see. Hopefully the on board GPU will be at least a 9400M, so that you can still get some performance out of it at times when you can't sacrifice battery life.
Like acally, the biggest thing holding me back is the ridiculous Alienware styling. I have a hard time envisioning myself opening this thing up in front of colleagues on a business trip. Though, unless something else with similar specs in this size range comes down the pipe soon, I may not be able to keep myself from grabbing one of these.
Like acally, the biggest thing holding me back is the ridiculous Alienware styling. I have a hard time envisioning myself opening this thing up in front of colleagues on a business trip. Though, unless something else with similar specs in this size range comes down the pipe soon, I may not be able to keep myself from grabbing one of these.
I think that it is far too, bulky, heavy, and powerful to be considered a notebook, yet it's smaller than the majority of ultraportables out there. If anything, this notebook is what the smallest MacBook should be, with powerful switchable graphics.
I'm itching to drop my 15" Dell Precision, and switch to this.
I'm itching to drop my 15" Dell Precision, and switch to this.
