Chinese knockoff netbooks

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  Davo1111 on 30/06/2010 - 21:16

  not worth it imho

  1) no guarantee for warranty, even if they do, you would have to send it back and wait till they fix it. wont have a local support
  2) 300mhz, half of the cheapest asus netbook model (which has been sold for $200 in the past new)
  3) wouldnt be powerful enough to run well anything… not even xp

  There is an asus 1001(?) being sold at lappy king for $300. I'd look at that as a much better product.

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    Davo1111 on 30/06/2010 - 21:24

    http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/27785

    being sold here for $280

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  retiredfeline on 01/07/2010 - 09:19

  +1

  Those kind of specs (128MB RAM, 2GB disk, Windows CE) are closer to pocket organisers than to mainstream netbooks.

  300MHz CPU is a third of what the original netbook that started the craze had, I think that had a 800MHz Celeron. Even that had 512MB RAM and could run Linux which actually worked well, the main drawbacks being the screen and keyboard.

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  Cripto on 01/07/2010 - 15:05

  Nah the specs seem aweful, very unreliable, they can't even showcase these properly on air. Laggy as hell prob. Invest another couple hundred in a decent netbook, take my word for it.

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  nkrdlyk on 01/07/2010 - 15:09

  Okay thanks for the opinions. I'm looking at one basically for longer flights as I travel a bit. I checked out the COTD one but it sold out by the time I'd got my act together; I'll just wait for the next deal to come along.

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    Davo1111 on 01/07/2010 - 15:38

    +1

    $20 more and you can buy it in store @ lappyking. But yeah, not really a concern, they come up here every so often

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      nkrdlyk on 02/07/2010 - 03:15

      I would buy it in store but I'm in WA, the forgotten corner of Australia.

      Thank you for the info.

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  Roja on 01/07/2010 - 15:44

  haha they've superimposed a picture of Vista or 7 running on that machine, very misleading indeed