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Read more.French retailer lets slip pricing and availability details for Samsung's first ION portable.
Hurrah! At last an Ion portable with a sensible choice of CPU!
Will definitely be keeping an eye on this one, although the HP dv2 is looking favourite in my household at the moment...
Indeed. Shame though that my order for a dv2 from HP has been put on "backorder". Date keeps moving, so I'm doubting I'll ever get itOriginally Posted by scaryjim
A portable laptop you can't get, or the N510... the graphics on this should hopefully make it more useful, so it's going to be a tough decision!
What's the weight on that?
Gotta be <1.5Kg really, and last a good 4-5hrs minimum on battery to be any good.
Problem is, which people tend to overlook, the smaller a laptop/netbook is, the less space there is for the battery. So while components might be far more frugal than your average laptop, if it's enclosed in a small shell, then there's less space for a battery. So it pretty much evens out compared to a larger, more powerful laptop.
Same applies to weight. The battery is the heaviest single part of a netbook... and the longer that battery lasts, generally the heavier it will be... so it's back to the old having and eating of cakes.
Not talking about this netbook in particular - it certainly looks as though it'll be under 1.5kg, even with the slightly larger footprint - it's just something that's slowly been winding me up in recent months.
Sony P series manages the 4 hours easily, whilst been very light.
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*shrug* I can cope with anything under 2Kg for general portability, and I should imagine that even a hefty 6-cell battery wouldn't push this over that, and should acheive a battery life of ~ 4 hours (of course, Ion is inherently more power-hungry than 945GSE, so the battery life will remain the biggest concern).
The Acer Aspire 3810TG seems to be the best all-rounder at the minute: I'd be interested to know how long the battery lasts if you're using the discreet Radeon graphics heavily, though...
The Acer Aspire 3810TG looks really good for about £150 more than this.
Is the price between netbooks with Atoms, small screens, not a huge amount of storage and not much memory and a small laptop that is useable for general purpose apps getting smaller and smaller?
Seems to be, with the increasing take up of Intel's CULV and (to a lesser extent) AMD's Yukon. Hopefully that'll mean a reduction in price for Atom-based netbooks. Also, I suspect it won't be too long before we see Ion + CULV in the £600+ price segment for ultra-portables ...
I am very much looking forward to this netbook, just the price remains the only thing that could put me off at the moment. I hope they manage to sell it at around £400, more than £450 and I'd probably rather get a Timeline.
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