Grommit Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Hi Which is the best one of these ? Stone or RM and are there others out there ?
torledo Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 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. 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.
webman Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 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.
Ric_ Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 @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.
plexer Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 N800 currently 169.99 from play you save £130 on it. Ben
markcuk Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 i vote for the asus eee. this is a good site to get more info http://www.eeeuser.com/ mark
webman Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 The OQOs look cool but it's a shame they don't ship without Windows too
torledo Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 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.
webman Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 I totally agree Torledo - perhaps Ubuntu running customised Enlightenment such as with gOS?
torledo Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 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 ?
webman Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 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.
tosca925 Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 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.
Domino Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 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
Grommit Posted January 27, 2008 Author Posted January 27, 2008 Ok.. We are buying one of each to test them out... one ASUS and one Stone..... :-)
kennysarmy Posted March 12, 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 Ok.. We are buying one of each to test them out... one ASUS and one Stone..... :-) Did you ever do any side by side comparisons?
pagelad Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 We have about 30 of the EEE 4g's here and they cause nothing but problems, The wireless doesnt work if you put a key in your router, they arent very sturdy we've killed 4 of them already. Have a look at Acer Aspire ones, ive tested a few and the build quality is far superior.
OutToLunch Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 Just received a HP 2133 and loving it so far. Very nippy with XP on it and no tweaks, should be able to get it faster. Nice build quality and a great keyboard.
tonyd Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 In terms of build quality & price I think you'll find the HP Mininotes very hard to beat - HP Compaq 2133 Mini-Note VIA C7-M ULV Processor 1024M/120G 8.9" WXGA Linux Mini-Note PC - Ebuyer, £166 ex VAT is stupidly cheap, especially for machines with an aluminium casing!
steveg Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 We've got 4 of the Acer aspire one's here as a trial, and have generally been pretty impressed with them, i'm just getting a quote for another 21 of them so all of our year 6 pupils can have 1 each! Steve
nathan Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 We've got 4 of the Acer aspire one's here as a trial, and have generally been pretty impressed with them, i'm just getting a quote for another 21 of them so all of our year 6 pupils can have 1 each! Steve Do these acer's still have the 3 cell battery? I've been using the asus 1000h, really impressed with it. Nice big trackpad too. samsung: didnt like the trackpad on this and the backlight was rubbish MSI wind: Again didnt like where the buttons for the mouse were, rubbish battery life. this is ofcourse just my opinion.
Tony_Mc Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Running a few Eeepc 901s here and nothing but praise!
mcloum Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 I bought myself a Dell Mini 9, love it so far but i cant decide on a OS. I want Mac OSX on it but that leaves me with about 1gb of storage space! Back to ubuntu for my weekend in Wales
MYIT Posted December 15, 2008 Posted December 15, 2008 I advise school on UMPC and other hardware. In my opinion the main options you need to look for in the UMPC's are; Intel Atom N270 over the Via and celeron m because of battery life and heat generation 6 Cell battery 2.5" HDD instead of solid slate (at the moment due to pricing). when the 32Gb Solid slate option is cost effective then will look at this. Warranty is also important. Warranty is a tricky one as al the companies apart from HP have not thought about warranty packages. I have spoken directly with Asus and MSI. It is almost like they didn't want to offer onsite support or better turn around options. UMPC's i currently promote are; ASUS EEE 1000h MSI Wind Toshiba Samsung NC10 Acer Aspire I have contact with suppliers who can get competitive pricing if anyone needs.
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