Keepin' it real fake, part CXXXVIII: HiVision knows that even netbooks need fake friends
By Paul Miller 
posted Aug 30th 2008 2:52PM
posted Aug 30th 2008 2:52PM
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Good effort, still fail.
LOL @ specs in Comic Sans font.
I was thinking, "WTF, where'd my avatar go?" Then I realized I didn't click over on "Returning." I would like to thank the coders of the new comment system for not implementing something that remembers you're a returning commenter. Thanks guys.
dude, did you click the "remember me" check box? I did, and it still doesn't work. lol.
They fixed it. Now you sound like a moron and nobody knows what the hell you're talking about.
Those netbooks together like that could be the makings of a Quake 2 LAN party !
one step at the netbook, one giant step for the humanity. now every chinese child can have their own pc
YOUR RIGHT. Netbooks have saved the world.
Now we just gotta work on ethnioc cleansing, genocide, systematic rape, child prostitution and starvation.
Who do you think will figure those out? Microsoft or Apple?
@flashpoint
From what I've seen so far, if Apple did it, 50% of us would go gaga over how smart they were at making the world a better place, while 25% will ask if it runs Crysis, and the other 20% will go OMGWTFn00b. 5% will not care either way.
If Microsoft did that, expect 90% bitching and moaning at how evil they were. 5% will defend them, and part of that 90% will ask if they can run Crysis, and the remaining 5% will not care.
Anyway, can it run Crysis?
150$ isn't that bad, if I could find a use for that.
I'm not sure the knock offs are such a great deal... My Toshiba e755 (w/ a 400 MHz ARM & WIFI) cost me less than $150 used... That was a few years ago and it can probably do as much with the extension pack ($15 extra) as this... Granted mine has a smaller keyboard & screen... I'll stick with a name brand net book if I ever get one.
But you have to give them mad props for getting XP to run on ARM....
windows XP's minimum requirements are LOW.
a 233 mhz processor, 64MB RAM, 1.5 gigabytes of HD space. Video processor and sound card?
You can realisticly run Windows XP on some cellular phones such as iPhone. Even some child's toys.
xda guys have done it on their phone granted most of is done via some emulator.
The one in pictures 5~8 looks much better (a lot less bad ?) than the one trying to rip off the mini-HP. Maybe it's because it looks a little Wind-y, a little Eee-ish, and those are my favorite netbooks, but the HP mini-note is nothing without it's metallic casing.
It looks like the first one is a Razorbook 400 rebrand.
The next 2 (white/black) look like EEE PC with different hinges. (only so many ways to design a laptop from OEM parts)
The silver/black one looks like it's using the Dell netbook keyboard.
CXXXVIII
WOW~~a new touchpad button design
I love the fact that they're worried about their ripoffs getting.. stolen.
I was gonna say...
Those evil Chinese how dare they enter the netbook market.........I mean how dare they ripoff the concept of mini-notebook.
You know where the first netbook came from?
Taiwan I think
Hah. This is kind of like the Behringer business model. Cheap reverse-engineered versions of existing products.
is that a fake vga port? i was thinking they looked ok til i saw that
Where there's no DooM... There's FAIL!
There are a few things wrong with that statement.
Number 1, XP is x86 only. But I figure you know that, and you're only talking performance wise
Number 2, A 400 MHz ARM Cpu is no where as powerful as even a 233 MHz Pentium 2. ARM CPUs are simple, low power, low performance, in-order arcitectures. The pentium II us an advanced out of order architecture, with an FPU and fast L2 cache. The architecture used in the Pentium II (P6) is still basicly what we're using in Core 2 Duos.
Number 3. ARM's were kicked out of the desktop space sometime in the early 90's or so. By significantly slower than today 486's and 586's (pentiums). Desktop CPUs have come a long, looooong way since then, as has OS demands. ARM's haven't. At least as much.