Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
It's much cheaper than the Asus 901 with intel atom.
Yes, by $100 MSRP and all the Asus gives you over the Dell is a longer life battery. But something like the MSI comes in at less for more. And personally, I went with the 900 even though the 901 was also an option because the Celeron is much faster than the Atom and they're $100 cheaper than the pimped out Dell (not including the additional $100 rebate that was running on the 900's last month.)
A friend of mine got the 901 with the Atom, even after I told him about the benchmarks on the web showing it's about half as fast as a Celeron even at 50% higher clocks. That thing is so painfully slow even doing simple office stuff it's not even funny. I'd have to shoot somebody... or maybe even myself.
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
$349 with 512 / 4 GB / linux / 9" screen is a better value than the Asus eee 7" screen / 4 GB model at the same price.
You don't know about the 900's? The EeePC 900 16GB Linux (W047 in white, BK041 in black) has a 8.9" LCD, 16GB SSD, 1GB DDR, 1.3mp camera and has an MSRP of $399.99. To hit that near that price with the Dell and still get the 1.3mp camera, I'd have to go with an 8GB SSD and that gives me a price of $409. Sure, I get the Atom processor, but... I'm telling you... I REALLY don't want that Atom processor.
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
?? did you miss that the $399 version is XP with 8 GB SSD, or $450 for XP, 1GB RAM and 16 GB SSD?
Yes, I did miss it first time through because I started at the lowest price and added features on to it. When you start with the $349 unit, Windows is not an option. Weird. They should make it where all options are available in every configuration.
For the record, my "haha" was not so much directed towards Dell, but to all of the hype this thing lead in with as if it was going to be super cheap yet feature packed and then turns out to be an "also ran". Leave it to the press to give us the entry level price, as well as the specs for the higher end unit (without it's potential price). I commend Dell on entering this market (for the consumer, the more the merrier), and I'm sure they had little to do with the over-hyping of this thing and probably wanted a quiet launch (otherwise I'm sure they would've done their own campaigning). I will still say that it will probably outsell every other mini-notebook out there simply because it's "Dell".