Netbooks
December 28th, 2008, 1:48pm by JakeSo supposedly 2009 with be the year of the touchscreen Netbook at CES. From the article:
The CES 2009 will officially start on January 8th, which is less than 2 weeks away. Netbooks will be of course a very hot topic at the CES 2009. The new generation of netbooks will add touch and will have twistable screens to use them in tablet or notebook style.
As reported two weeks ago Intel is set to introduce a new Classmate netbook with a twistable screen and touchscreen at the CES 2009. Back in October we already reported that Asus is planning to introduce touchscreen Asus Eee netbooks early 2009. Asus is exhibiting at the CES unveiled pre-show that takes place already on January 6th. Expect the Asus Eee Touch to be already unveiled then.
Gigabyte has outrun all of them with the Intel Atom powered M912V (photo) that has been on the market already for a while. See this M812V review we featured back in September. I hope Asus, Acer, MSI, Samsung and the other netbook vendors bring more innovation to the netbooks than just adding touch to netbooks. I expect an UI that is also made for touch and not just a shell with 6 large icons to push as desktop.
Thoughts? How much would you pay for a touchscreen Netbook, aka the Foleo Killer.
December 28th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I’ve already announced to Joanie that my next gadget purchase will be an MSI Wind that I’ll install OS X on.
December 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
That sounds like a good idea. How easy is it to install OS X?
December 28th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Sounds like it — I already downloaded the patched OS, and there have been blog posts around about how well everything (audio, Bluetooth, cd/DVD drive, etc) works. Apparently different netbooks work to different extents. I have several links on my machine, which we can talk about when you get up here.
But bottom line, a 2.5 lb, $450, non-work-owned Mac OS laptop is a very attractive proposition.
December 28th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I’ll bring my copy of Leopard.
link.
December 29th, 2008 at 2:55 am
You need a “patched” (i.e., hacked) copy of OS X, which you can get off bittorrent. I have the ISO already, but not the machine, and it’ll probably be a few months before I do it.
Also, there are several varieties of the Wind, and I’m not dire whether see are better for hacking than others. There are other neybiond they will work, too, but the Wind seems like the one I’d want to try from what I’ve read.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:16 am
This chart was pretty helpful in seeing how several current netbooks stacked up in terms of OS X compatibility.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am
“I’m not dire whether see”
Posted from an iPhone?
December 29th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Probably more the fault of my driving than Mike’s thumbing skill…
January 6th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
The new touchscreen Eee PC, the T91 looks interesting.
May 31st, 2009 at 7:43 pm
So what does everyone think about the Dell Mini 10v? Early reports indicate that it will run OS X, but no word on how easy it is to set up, or how good the support is.
If it’s doable, I may actually pull the trigger.
May 31st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Best Buy has Mini 10s in stock. Keep in mind the differences– Mini 10’s have the flush glass screen, which the 10v lacks. But the form factor and the keyboard are the same, and those are it’s strong points, IMO.
I would say that the 10v has as nice a keyboard as the HP mini1000, but it has better pricing (about $50 less). Hence, it’s my current pick. On the downside, the Mini 10v does have a substandard 1024×576 screen resolution (vs. the 1024×600 that every other netbook has).
June 1st, 2009 at 2:33 am
Just got the Mini 10 for my mother in-law. It’s nice. The one negative is that if you opt for the 6-cell battery, it totally kills the form factor.