Hi
Which is the best one of these ? Stone or RM and are there others out there ?
The stone appears in various guises including the packard bell easynote xs - and i must admit i am eager to have a play with one.Originally Posted by Grommit
Trouble is, i fear it's a bit of a turkey as a complete package.
There were some promising candidates in the umpc market, such as the oqo2 - trouble is they run windows on a slow coach ultra-mobile processor, keyboard input is awkward, and price is horrendous...
The umpc market could well be a dead man walking...becuase from one end the internet tablets such as the N80 are beating up on umpc's from the price/portability angle, and the eee is beating up on the umpc from the price/performance angle. Granted, the N80 isn't a general purpose computer and you can't fit the eee in the palm of you're hand - but i don't think i want to use a full blown OS on devices that are really just overweight PDA's with keyboards...particulrly at the heavyweight prices of the Q1 and OQO...
Sorry, in answer to you're question.....the eee/minibook is the best imo - for the time being.
Stone: Based on VIA chip running at 1.2GHz and is a little cooler than the ASUS EeePC. Has a huge gaping hole between body and screen - some find this off-putting. Has a touch-screen. Unless you hold it with your other hand, the pressure might push the screen backwards (just a guess). It also comes with XP so miles more expensive than the open-source-powered EeePC. Also requirements for antivirus and firewall and antispyware will leave less resources for what you really want to run.
EeePC: Good basic ultra portable laptop at a decent price (thanks to lack of Microsoft tax). Good expansion capabilities. Runs Linux so no requirement for antivirus/antispyware.
@Grommit: It depends on your intended use... I have a Nokia N800 (£130 from Play.com!) because I wanted a device for accessing web-based content but with the geek factor of Linux still.
N800 currently 169.99 from play you save £130 on it.
Ben
i vote for the asus eee.
this is a good site to get more info http://www.eeeuser.com/
mark
The OQOs look cool but it's a shame they don't ship without Windows too
I think if they shipped a tweaked version of a linux distro with the oqo it would do wonders for the performance.The OQOs look cool but it's a shame they don't ship without Windows too
I totally agree Torledo - perhaps Ubuntu running customised Enlightenment such as with gOS?
Now that's an interesting one, i really like the look of gOS but from what i've read it's absolute garbage. Don't know why - one of those things where reasons for dislike aren't forthcoming. Do you have any experience of using gOS on an ultraportable ?I totally agree Torledo - perhaps Ubuntu running customised Enlightenment such as with gOS?
Not on an ultraportable, but I've used it on a laptop for a short while. I haven't used Enlightenment extensively and I'm biased towards KDE because it's what I'm used to. But I think what makes gOS unlikable for some is it's Firefox-for-everything idea that's going on and that the interface doesn't include the standard menu, taskbar and system tray in the usual place. The left-aligned window buttons was also off-putting for me.
Wouldn't Damn Small Linux be sufficient?
i am currently testing one of these. I have the white Asus Eee-PC 4gb model. I have installed XP Pro SP2 and followed the guidlines to cut remove certain un-needed windows files. I have done a windows update to bring it up to date and then removed the files that are kept. I have install SiMS and Office 2003. I am really impressed with it. We are going to trial these with PE staff instead of PDA's.
Later today i will be installing Sophos and I'm sure this will give it a full test.
We've got one of the first model oQO's here.
to be fair, if you're not doing anything too intensive (and on a UMPC, who'd want to?), then its a really good little device.
solidly built, runs fast and reliably, batteries good, even with xp.
however they're damn expensive
Ok.. We are buying one of each to test them out... one ASUS and one Stone..... :-)
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