Keepin' it real fake, part CXVII: Kira 100 rides the Eee PC wave (a bit too closely)
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 22nd 2008 5:09PM
posted Apr 22nd 2008 5:09PM
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Good God, is that thing ugly.
not only does it cost more, it's slower using a via c-7
But the Airis has got 40gb mem and the asus only 4gb....... at least the ones they sell here in Spain for 329/299 euros
Nope
HAHA
The race to the bottom just got colorful.
but will it play doom?
but will your mom stop calling to dome me?
OMG! It's Romper Room here. Both of you put your noses in oposite corners and don't move until you can be civil.
My question is: can Chinese companies bring suit against this Spanish company for infringements on their infringements?
Isn't Asus a well known OEM manufacturer? Why should this be any different than the Everex Cloudbook that appears all over the world in dozens of different guises?
Its based on the netbook. As is cloudbook, s.book, pb easynotexs20 and many others. You're right!
The nanoboook is prior-art i do believe!
I really don't give a damn which low-budget, underpowered, low resolution, small-screened, under-spec'd, ugly, laptop copied which low-budget, underpowered, low resolution, small-screened, under-spec'd, ugly, laptop. Just show me the one that comes in at the originally promised $299 price point.
Excatly what i was thinking
Yeah, I was wondering why is the copy more money than the original.
well it is 299 for us europeans :>
You can get a 2G Eee for 299.
The original price was supposed to be 200, no? That's what I was expecting at least...
So where is the L 100?
nice death note ref!!!
Ok now give me this with a bigger screen for $400.00 without the ugly colors
Bigger screen? You can get a Core 2 Duo Machine with 1 Gig(kinda low) of Ram and 120GB harddrive and a 15.4 inch screen for 450 at Circuit City.
How many remoldings from the Eee are we going to get here?
How is this a copy it's just another small form laptop. It's not using the same processor, the case and colors are obviously different, it's not being marketed with a similar name.
Why is it a bad thing that there are more options to choose from in the small laptop field?
The price is somewhat out there though, although you can't be sure with the complexities of converting Euro->USD
why cant there be atleast one thats not ugly and acutally usefull at the same time!?
... That doesn't look like the EEE, other than the general 7" shape. Many of the specs are the same, because those are the limit of the formfactor, It is a competitor to the EEE, not a copier.
Wow, I'm going crazy. I swear, I saw "ASUS" under the screen when I looked at the picture really fast..
I must buy this knockoff of the Eee.
If the boot up screen looks like the ones in the photo, who could resist? The suggestively restrained yellow butt cheeks plumping out at you from 7" of pure blissitude!
w00t. w8t. Un w00t. Fail.
I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who saw the black Kira (KIRFa?) getting mooned by the other three...
I actually like the the colors, but everything else is sorely lacking. For the same price I can get the 9 inch EEE PC that just came out.
Well, it looks like a nice pair of boobs on screen!
Boobs? What the hell?
Looks a lot more like Bart Simpson's ass,
Hahaha! You're damn right!!
There's something really wrong with these models though: They include a 56K modem. Why do makers insist on STILL including these things? It took long enough to phase out the space-hogging parallel & serial ports. It's 2008 already.
DONT BE FOOLED BY WANNAB-EEE'S!
Got the same bezel
I'm only going to get one of the mobile piece of craps when they are 100 clams or under
That yellow one looks cool. If it was red i..... wouldn't buy it. What did I comment for?
but will it steal identity by placing into an ATM?
Airis is a well known spanish pc manufacturer/importer, and has brought good computers for a good price. This thing is NOT more expensive than eeepc (eeepc 700 299€ in spain, the SAME as airis kira) and comes with a NOT underclocked cpu (1Ghz vs 600Ghz). Just because you don't know it don't say this is not good because right now in spain is probably a BETTER choice than eeepc. We have received OLD eeepc several months later than the rest of the world and whit a price tag of 300€ (which are not 300$!!). Ok Asus, try next time! And by the way this little thing is manufactured by a Korean company (someting like Nortec i don't know what else) and imported and rebranded by Airis (which honestly, I don't know is better or not than being manufactured by Airis itself).
"I want a 200€ eeepc"
Oh please, stop being such a close mind guy. Competition is GREAT ! Kira 100 stays cool all the time and i got 4h of full screen divx playback on batery on my Positivo Mobo(the Brazilian brand). When using google videos on full screen it eats battery as hell, but i had the same problem with a 15" laptop.
The processor is not so good as in the eee, but i don't find it necessarily bad considering what it's sold for... I only tryed cartoons divx, but the image is not bad at all, i can say that its better than the SIS Mirage on my HP Pavilion. I can say the same about the sound when my Mobo(Kira) is on the same speakers that came with my desktop.
PROS: Kira is cooler, the battery last a little longer, the webcam is better
CONS: Its seems that even being better than my SIS Mirage, the VIA video card it's not as good as the one in eee. VIA processor is slow on superpi(>8min).
For me as a Brazilian owner of a MOBO it's better becouse all eee here are on linux and lets face it, linux its not the pattern and except for some geeks most people will prefer a windows umpc.