3K Computers' RazorBook 400 gets hands-on treatment

The sub-$300 RazorBook 400 is far from being the most potent netbook on the block, but that succulent price tag will likely compensate in the eyes of some folks. If you're one such character, you'll probably want to take a look at the first hands-on video with said unit. Predictably, this bad boy is ridiculously small, and if the 45 second boot-up is any indication, it's pretty sluggish as well. Video is just after the break.

[stefan @ Jun 16th 2008 5:22PM]

The article from may 28th promised a 8-second-boot-time.
I guess that was for the POST.

[bobartig @ Jun 16th 2008 5:22PM]

What the hell, that review unit doesn't have integrated wifi? Who makes a ultra-sub-note-umpc-netbook-whatever without onboard wifi? Terrible.

[stefan @ Jun 16th 2008 5:27PM]

The lack of a D-Sub or DVI-Connector bothers me just as much. This makes the device pretty much useless for presentations and thus for any business / university campus use.

[Niki @ Jun 16th 2008 5:25PM]

oh come on...
wifi is soooo not essential...

what they need to do is make a multi thousand foot network cable, and we'll just snake it all over the place. =]

[BrokenMonkey @ Jun 16th 2008 5:39PM]

Where's my Wind?

[Thi mam(kris120890) @ Jun 16th 2008 5:44PM]

I'll check the forecast. (Or you can use your ass)

[Thi mam(kris120890) @ Jun 16th 2008 5:45PM]

comment to BrokenMonkey

[Fusion Fuzo @ Jun 16th 2008 5:47PM]

Where's my eee?

[gad get @ Jun 16th 2008 6:40PM]

Hahaha!

[lawyer bird @ Jun 16th 2008 5:49PM]

They're really scrounging the bottom of the barrel for cute taiwanese booth babes. I mean, yyeesh

[The Dude @ Jun 16th 2008 5:59PM]

~1:35 he turns it on
~2:12 it's booted up

That's ~37 seconds and not the lazily estimated 45 seconds.

Did he say 400 Mhz? Holy shit, Batman. Why have the Clutter/Flash interface on such a low spec'd system? If you don't want it to run like molasses I'd think they'd at least put IceWM on that.

[Mark Anderson @ Jun 16th 2008 6:01PM]

Ugly, slow and pointless.

Next please.

[happy_penguin @ Jun 16th 2008 6:30PM]

I think it looks kinda nice for what it is. The cover should be matte to help hide scratches. Battery life is important and I think 400mhz is good enough for web browsing and email. It would make a nice little cafe browsing machine so wifi should be integrated.

[Steffen Jobs @ Jun 16th 2008 6:33PM]

Apple!

[gad get @ Jun 16th 2008 6:41PM]

Everyone else, too!

[wilcoholic @ Jun 16th 2008 7:27PM]

I'd recommend the sony vaio TZ. You could get one as low as $1000 especially this time of the year. Thats only a few hundred bucks more then this yet the experience and performance you get is worth alot more.

[ManekiNeko @ Jun 16th 2008 8:32PM]

3K computer? So, does that mean this is a portable VIC-20?

[Avram @ Jun 16th 2008 8:36PM]

We did a hands-on with this at LAPTOP a few weeks ago. Our unit, like his, did not come with Wi-Fi and worse still there's no way to update the software at all. There's no command prompt in the linux, no package manager for updates, no way at all to update. And the Firefox on there is an ALPHA version of Firefox 2.0 (oh and flash didn't work).

You should check out our hands-on video and 3K's response that we were trying to use the system for "things it wasn't intended for'

http://blog.laptopmag.com/3k-razorbook-400-mini-notebook-mini-review

http://blog.laptopmag.com/3k-razorbook-now-299-ready-to-buy-now

[gad get @ Jun 17th 2008 3:08AM]

Wow. I wouldn't consider this piece of junk if it was priced at $50.

[stan wernick @ Jun 18th 2008 4:37PM]

Can my email address be used as a live link?
How are live links used by you?