Intel Atom based netbooks available soon

I wonder how much internal storage they will have... could be useful, as you say, as a storage device, especially if they are way smaller than most laptops these days.

Regarding XP - if all you are doing with the device is to use it to store photos, who cares what OS it runs? ;)
 
I should think that even they they range up to $300 dollars, the exchange rate won't travel so well and we'll end up paying £250 or so
 
BenMottram said:
I wonder how much internal storage they will have... could be useful, as you say, as a storage device, especially if they are way smaller than most laptops these days.

Regarding XP - if all you are doing with the device is to use it to store photos, who cares what OS it runs? ;)
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I should imagine they'll be pretty similar to the EEE, so 2-8GB solid-state. Not that useful for photo backup I should imagine :)
 
They've been showing off these designs at Cebit for the last few years. The trouble is that a full size cheap laptop is now £300 so it ate into their market. The latest I saw used a 1.8" hard drive, which wasn't very large - 40Gb ish

I think theres a few more around now that intel and microsoft have seen the market and dropped out of the one laptop per child project.
 
robmiller said:
I should imagine they'll be pretty similar to the EEE, so 2-8GB solid-state. Not that useful for photo backup I should imagine :)
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I wouldn't say that. Have you seen how compact external HD's have become now-a-days? A tiny EeePC and an external HD and you're set.

Byker28i said:
They've been showing off these designs at Cebit for the last few years. The trouble is that a full size cheap laptop is now £300 so it ate into their market. The latest I saw used a 1.8" hard drive, which wasn't very large - 40Gb ish

I think theres a few more around now that intel and microsoft have seen the market and dropped out of the one laptop per child project.
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Intel dropped out of that laptop because they were money hungry idiots. I'm glad because it means AMD, which make better processors IMO, will step in an reclaim the contract that was theirs in the first place. Either way both companies are wanting to make money, but the important thing here is to make sure technology that is taken for granted in the West is put to good use in the developing world.
 
These machines are all so much vapourware just now. There are loads of so called eee buster notebooks in the pipeline and they would sell well if they existed. Asus eeepcs shocked the wolrd with their popularity, Asus can't make enough of them to satisfy demand and the price of the eee has gone up a lot in response.
Most of theses announcements are made to try and stop folk buying an eee and save some market share for the others who got caught napping, "wait a few weeks and ours will be out" That msi wind for example, the only pictures of it show the outside of the casing, you can't see the screen side and certainly not a working model.

One thing is for sure, when they do start to arrive the cheapest ones will have a 7" screen, 2gb ssd and 512mb memory running linux. after that there will be 9" and maybe 10" models with bigger ssd drives or small 1.8" hard drives. Any bigger and they cease to be ultra portable.
 
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