NEW PRICE! $200 off netbook with "All Day" battery
Enjoy! :-)
It'd be good if the dard drive were 250 GB, as this one is:
. http://www.HarveyNorman.com.au/product/search?addFacet=def_g…
(It's an "Asus Eee PC R101D-BLU003S" Netbook, w/ 250 GB HD, for $248)
Yeah, that one from HN is a much better deal. Netbooks should have at least a 6 cell battery… that's decent battery life there.
I agree, mostly, with that "at least 6 cells" bit…
But sometimes we've seen or even used netbooks WITHOUT a battery… ie, on main or 12 V DC.
Even a 6-cell battery is heavier than AC & DC adapters combined.
We say: If you find a new ASUS netbook around $200 or so, snap it up; then buy a 6-cell battery for ~ US $30 from HK, or - why not? - even a 9-celler for ~ US $48 (also from HK) - both prices (recently gleaned from eBay vendors) INCLUDE shipping.
'haven't tested the batteries, that $30 or $48 might buy, but - if they're anything like some camera batteries we got recently bought - they'd at least be worth the risk.
(The digi-cam batteries worked fine in a camera, whose maker's doc'n hinted that it tested batteries for aftermarket, & might not work, ie, if it didn't see a "genuine" battery… dunno if ACCC would look favorably on that kind of start-up check…?)
Agreed. Pretty "meh" Netbook & bargain.
Meh. Very, very average netbook. Better off paying $50-100 more for a newer CPU. 1GB of ram is useless with anything past XP and would be god aweful under Win7 (although Linux should be fine). The CPU will also only support a maximum of 2GB of ram, which should be enough for Win7, but won't be great.
Wonder why you got neg'ed for stating the facts ;)
Not many fact here…. You obviously have zero real world experience with these products, and are basing your comments on unfounded preconceptions.
There is no "newer" CPU for Netbooks. The N455 is the "newest" single-core processor. There's a dual-core, but the benefit is zero on the types of programs that Netbooks are designed to run.
These little netbooks work absolutely FINE on only 1GB of RAM with Windows 7 Starter. You can open lots of windows even on just 1GB before it starts using the hard drive as a Swap File.
They aren't designed to be running massive CPU tasks or for photoshopping - they are small, cheap devices to surf the net, send emails, read PDFs and do simple Word and Excel tasks. The whole idea of them is to have a small, cheap, and "powerful enough" device for the stuff that you do 90% of the time.
Consider what you did (say) 10 years ago (2001)… you probably used a 450 or 533MHz CPU (about 1/3 as fast as this) and had 256MB of RAM (512MB if you were a power user). If you were old enough to use a computer back then, you survived quite OK with that… yet these netbooks have more power at a tiny percentage of the price.
I don't know why you discount multi-core netbooks so readily. Without a single application window open, Windows 7 is already running dozens of threads in the background, and on my C-50 netbook, Process Explorer shows that Windows is happily balancing the load accross both cores.
It's also nice to know that my Firefox session with Flash can suck the cycles out of one core while VLC still plays a movie seamlessly on the other.
Had an EeePC 1000HA and never wanna touch another 10" netbook again! The size is good for portability but the screen resolution is a pain…
Price is not a bargain. Aldi specs are better (such as the 250G HD) and also $249.
Does anyone know for this kind of netbooks, usually with a max. memory of 2G, does it mean you can install at max only 2 X 1GB RAMs or 1 X 2GB RAM?
They usually suit ONE stick. So, to upgrade you take out the 1GB and replace with a single 2GB.
thx a lot~
FYI guys, this netbook actually has a 250gb HDD. apparently OW just made a typo.
Good price but no way this thing will get 14 hours on a 3 cell battery - might want to correct that :)
Otherwise, +1