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Benchmark Results: Notebooks

PCMark Vantage

Asus Eee PC 1215N
Asus Eee PC 1215N

Longer bars are better

PCMark Vantage Loop Battery Test

Asus Eee PC 1215N

Battery life in Minutes
Longer bars are better

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(Written by Reg staff)

Re: If....

Turn your computer off, and it'd be an even greater saving.

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Oh

You can thank our friends at Microsoft for that.

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Turn your computer off, and it'd be an even greater saving.

Ah, but the AC is right, in my books anyways.

I too wanted to know immediately what the battery life and cost was :) Not likely to buy this thing as my current Eee probably boasts better endurance than it,and quite likely runs cooler. And cost less, apart from upgrades. Slower, for sure, but ... compromises...

Nevertheless, you get an upvote from me for the snappy comeback.

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Pointless

When they cost £449 there just isn't any point. Especially when the size of the device is creeping up.

The next one will have a 13 inch screen, then 15 inch and then it will just be a laptop.

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Anonymous Coward

Netbook

If you said that this is not a netbook due to COST - then I might be with you.

A netbook is a low cost, relatively low powered machine that can handle light web-surfing and such but cannot tear though multiple power-apps at once, like editing high res imgs whilst your vid edit encodes whist, you capture a clip of a game whist another core works on a distributed computing project. Screen size has little to do with it other than helping to reduce the cost to make them competitive against real lappies despite relatively low power and therefore useful life.

And to extend battery life

Under $500 - thats DOLLARS - is the fig usually floated for those that care about definition.

More here: http://news.cnet.com/what-is-a-netbook-computer/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

m

Netbooks came with Linux cos otherwise M$ instantly added such a whack to the price, that it became hard to keep the cost down within the range that got people excited. Linux (esp Ubuntu) is finally ready for your avg user and so should be an option here. Would make this machine more attractive to me - if I did not already have v powerful (yet efficient) lappies and custom build desktop.

Wish one could fully custom build lappies too. Building desktops is just lego. And many parts of lappies are like that too (drives, memory, CPU etc). It`s the chassis that`s the problem.

If I could pick a lappy chassis and then fill it w parts like I do w desktops, that would be great.

So much better performance/value and always all the features I want in one package.

I spend longer looking for new lappies with all the relevant card slots and specs at a decent price than it would take to fully build my own. Often you find almost everything you want but then a deal breaker like a glossy screen or a non-ATI card sends you back to square one.

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