20% off all ultrabook laptops at the power center in frankston.
picked up the newly released hp dm3 folio i5 model (rrp 1499) for 1200, amazed that this was included as an ultra book as it doesn't meet Intels standard ;-) they had all the popular ultra books there, Toshiba Asus and Acer
Not sure when it expires
Each to their own. If i took your advice, i wouldn't have bought anything electrical in the last thirty years.
every single year theres something cheaper and better, you will be waiting forever.
this is for work, i have two PCs at home for my "normal" computer usage
yeah electricals are out dated in a matter of months but i tend to stay away from harvey normans
What have HN done to you?
You are right in some cases, i mean if you dont have any laptop or only have one laptop or PC for now, then you can go for it. But in my case, I have a laptop, a MBP and a netbook so I would rather wait until the price drop to a acceptable level.
What kind of processor and how much RAM does your netbook have? If you have about 2GB of memory, have something like an N280+ processor, and are running Windows 7 or Windows XP, you should get reasonable performance for day to day stuff, like web browsing. Try checking how many processes are running on your system (probably the no. 1 cause for unnecessary system slowdown) and what your power saver mode is (high power saver modes can lower the processor clock).
I've used an older netbook (an Asus EEE PC, pre N280) to drive a 24" screen, and it's worked reasonably well. Newer models perform even better on web and video (including having hardware support for Full HD video on, as I recall, the N450s onwards).
mine is with 1gb ram so it is incredibly slow. my experience is even you got 2gb ram on your netbook, the performance is still under your expectation. If you have tried Google Chrome, then you should know that when you keep windows opened, the ram is being gradually taken, and after some while, there is no ram left. This is horrible. Not to mention the N-series cpu, it is OK for low work load but laggy when you open up more than 3 programs (on 1gb netbook, consider the good ram control mechanism provided by windows 7, it is always laggy in the first place, but smooth later)definitely not suitable for me.
Well, all I said just my personal opinion as I used or tried them before, I am not misleading or pushing my idea to others.
i have the original eeepc 1000h
i added 2gb ram
fresh clean install of windows
overclocked processor to 1.8ghz
custom video drivers to run 1080p video smoothly
doesnt skip a beat
take it with me on holidays. nothing i own can beat its size, weight battery life and functionality
i can even change the screen to a touch lcd if i wanted to
@furythree, I wonder how many people would actually try to do what you did?
like you said, you can modify many specs, even change the screen, but if a product takes you so much time just in order to make it work, then why should people choose it in the very first beginning?
Hmm… yes, Chrome does tend to be heavy on memory usage. I've personally had to adapt by reducing the number of programs/tabs I keep open at the same time etc. Perhaps your usage scenarios don't fall into netbook usage scenarios. There are some pretty good Toshibas with full-voltage processors which are also ultra lightweight (i.e. The R700 and R835) and are very reasonably priced, maybe something like that might suit your use case better.
Still, I would try checking the number of processes running on your system again. If it's over 70 on win 7 and over 30 on win xp, slowness is a given (too much context switch overhead/ram pressure). In my experience, even high-powered machines tends to be slow for this very reason.
suggest to buy overseas from asus since they are the only one i believe to have international warranty
Australian have no consumer protection for goods bought overseas.
See "This Warranty applies in the country of purchase."
Reassuring when nothing goes wrong, but when it doesn't that's when it gets hairy.
funny things for the Windows Ultrabook/Android Tablet environment are,
they generally have ugly design, thicker, heavier, no or little upgrading support, very hard to use, yet they really think they will be some sort of killer/competitor to Air/iPad 2, then just overpriced and overpriced, even much expensive than Air/IPad 2.
If a solder doesn't know what himself is, how can he defeat anyone.
Anyone could point out the wise of doing an ulgy ultrabook, thicker and heavier than Air, should priced higher than the Air?
What…..?
Lmao so thaaaaat's what happens when an apple fanboy gets high …
This is a deal about ultrabooks. Take Android/iOS discussions elsewhere such as the forums.
Some manufacturer has announced that the price of ultrabook is going to descend to around 699, so why dont we just wait for another 6 months?
BTW, I need to mention that buying netbook is the most regretful thing I have ever done in my life. After buying a netbook, I found it performing so slow that could not match my request.
Considering the huge success of Apple's air, ultrabook should have a promising future, but the price alienates it from us and it is believed to be not a good timing to buy in.