In Oz the U90 is around 15% cheaper ~$100 .. also marginally lighter and better battery life for the same resolution. Identical to the U100 apart from the screen size.
It means they don't have to make much extra investment to produce a smaller, cheaper model. Shrinking the whole machine (which may come down the line) would've required a whole new case, motherboard, keyboard etc. etc. and dramatically increased costs compared to the derivative product.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Why bother with a smaller screen in a 10" chasis? Waste of time if you ask me.....
Looks like it came from the '82.
The AAO is still number one in the categorie until Lenovo and Dell decide to show up to the party.
Yet when HP did it, everyone was raving about it...
The advantages are presumably its going to cost less and the keyboard is bigger and therefore easier to type with..
Thats Right..............Useless...!!!
@Phil: agree
In Oz the U90 is around 15% cheaper ~$100 .. also marginally lighter and better battery life for the same resolution. Identical to the U100 apart from the screen size.
It means they don't have to make much extra investment to produce a smaller, cheaper model. Shrinking the whole machine (which may come down the line) would've required a whole new case, motherboard, keyboard etc. etc. and dramatically increased costs compared to the derivative product.