Asus has anticipated the folk who don't want Vista anyway - there's a second recovery DVD in the box that includes a copy of Windows XP. The installer tucks Vista away into a hidden partition, so it's available for re-installation at a future date.
There's even Linux on this thing, courtesy of SlashTop's ExpressGate, into which you can quickly boot from a powered-off state to surf the web, play online games, Skype, IM, play music and look at your photos - all after an 11s start-up time. It's not as quick as Asus makes out, but it takes a fraction of the time load and use that Vista does.
Speaking of bundles, the N10 also comes with a slimline, metal-clad multi-format DVD burner in the box. It's a little clunky, but since it's free, we can't complain. Asus has shipped it with a dual power and data cable that terminates in two USB connectors.
PCMark 05 Results
Notebook
Longer bars are better
PCMark05's graphics test won't run on a 1024 x 768 screen, so we focused on the CPU, Memory and HDD tests. As you can see, up against a Core 2 Duo based machine like Dell's Latitude E6400, the N10 is completely outclassed.
PCMark 05 Results
Netbook
Longer bars are better
COMMENTS
I propose...
a new name for it - since it comes with Fista, how about "crapbook"?
So it's got Linux on it too.
I wonder how many people will find that they are using that all of the time, and then wonder why they bothered with Vista?
PS The 10" screen allows it to have the XP option - M$ forbid it for anything larger.
@W
"give it a tweak, make the case white and square it off, install OSX, market it, and watch the dollars roll in. "
You forgot "and mark up the price by 50%" there...
@Ishkandar re: Apple
Aye. That's why I mentioned it. I shoulda been more explicit.
@basically it's a tarted up EEE1000
FYI, Asus did make quite a few Apple machines in the good old days. So they are not exactly starting from scratch !!
That said and despite a big Asus fan, I will *NOT* buy this machine. I fail to see the point of having a good graphics card and then cripple it with a crappy screen !!
This is typed on a 4 year old A6000 series laptop that is used as an Oracle database server and client as well as for playing games and surfing the 'net !! It weights a fair bit but since it is upgraded to max, it will blow many desktops away !!
