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    7" Mini Notebook by VIA

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by wave, Jun 5, 2007.

  1. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    VIA has a cool colorful new mini notebook called VIA Nanobook.

    It is based on the C7-M 1.2GHz VIA ULV Processor and uses VIA UniChrome™ Pro II IGP. Doesnt sound like a great perfomer but it should be cheap then mini notebooks based on Intel or AMD chips.

    Other featuers are a 7" 800x480 touchscreen and 1GB of ram.

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    That area next to the display is called MobilityPLUS and is an expansion port. It can be used for one of these addons:

    • Bluetooth VoIP Phone
    • GPS
    • DVB
    • 3G/CDMA Phone
    • World Clock
     
    wave, Jun 5, 2007
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  2. admlam

    admlam Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Looks very interesting. Clock seems a little redundant unless you plan on using this thing as a night stand alarm?

    When it's powered on, you can just check time on the computer.

    I see it works when its powered off, but you could have just have easily checked your cell phone or wrist watch?
     
    admlam, Jun 5, 2007
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  3. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    It seems Packardbell will be selling the notebook under the name of EasyBook XS
     
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  4. BHD

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    seems like they wanted to fill in the gap so they could use smaller/cheaper less power consuming screen.
     
    BHD, Jun 5, 2007
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  5. Sirius_GTO

    Sirius_GTO Notebook Deity

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    Not very innovative. :rolleyes:

    Waste of screen space IMHO.
     
    Sirius_GTO, Jun 5, 2007
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  6. mujtaba

    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    The weight seems to be around 900grams.
     
    mujtaba, Jun 5, 2007
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  7. dietcokefiend

    dietcokefiend DietGreenTeaFiend

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    That clock really gives it a cheap "Sharper Image" type look to it. Heres hoping the price reflects how slow and underpowered it is. Those VIA processors are in line with 300-450 mhz Intel/AMD's from the K6-2 and Socket 5 time period.
     
    dietcokefiend, Jun 5, 2007
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  8. LFC

    LFC Ex-NBR

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    Sorry if old (not living by practice what I preach :p), but check this 7" Asus out

    Click me!
     
    LFC, Jun 5, 2007
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  9. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    Dont think it is old at all. Looks very nice! Will cost a 1.5-2k more then the VIA one I bet.
     
    wave, Jun 5, 2007
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  10. mujtaba

    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    The VIA CPU's are well known for two main characteristics :
    1-Small die size.
    2-Very low power consumption.
    See what the folk over here do with the VIA Mini-ITX boards : http://www.mini-itx.com/
     
    mujtaba, Jun 5, 2007
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  11. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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  12. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    wave, Jun 5, 2007
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  13. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    I still hold that my thread was nicer (i actually wrote stuff), but merging would be nice.
     
    fabarati, Jun 5, 2007
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