DosPara's Prime Note Cresion NA "netbook" pairs Ion with Atom 330
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 15th 2009 1:09PM
posted June 15th 2009 1:09PM
Apparently not one to be confined to the usual "netbook" considerations, Japan's DosPara has now gone out and broken a few rules with its new Prime Note Cresion NA model, which not only packs a larger than usual 12-inch display, but a nettop-specific dual-core Atom 330 processor as well. That gets paired with NVIDIA's Ion chipset, along with 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, your choice of built-in optical drive, a memory card reader, and an HDMI port, to name but a few less than standard netbook features. Of course, all of that comes with a fairly significant increase to the size and weight of the laptop, but at least the ¥59,980 price tag (or just about $600) isn't too unreasonable.
[Via Netbooknews.com]
[Via Netbooknews.com]
bleh. looks thick and ugly.
Yeah it's a bit big, but I don't think it looks ugly. It's just subdued, and a few months down the road you won't be regretting that fire engine red laptop you would have got.
Yeah the whole point of a netbook is it's supposed to be small and sleek. For this price why not just get a 13 or 14 inch with a c2d and 4GB ram, and dedicated graphics. They really missed the mark
Another idiotic glossy screen, with a dumb glossy body finish to match.
Cheeseball++
Its a dospara... they use very generic cases but keep the price low. You can find very good deals at Dospara.jp... Quad cores computers for 450$... that kind of stuff. Its quite well regarded here in Japan. It's not there you will go buy a fancy cute machine.
I thought intel had specifically asked companies a while back NOT to put the 330 into netbooks. Something about they threatened to cut off chip supplies to the company if they did.
Oh really? I thought it wasn't placed in netbooks because of heat issues, and because it used an amount of power that wasn't netbook battery life friendly.
330 has a TDP of 8W and without speedstep thats static. Im waiting for some of the ARM devices from computex to hit the market, this has nothing to do with netbooks.
A twelve inch laptop is not a netbook. Anyhow, I would definitely prefer to have a atom 330 than a 270, considering it's almost twice as fast. In a computer that is slightly larger than a netbook, I would definitely want to have a slightly better processor, since a slightly larger battery could support it. Once you add in the ION and HDMI, this sounds like the perfect 12 inch notebook pc to me.
Hey, HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, and MSI take some freaking notes. This is the hardware people want, but in the form factor you all already have perfected. GET TO IT!
I 100% agree with you, Gimme this in a 10" or even 9" form factor and I will buy it today! then I'd slap Windows 7 on it myself when it comes out! THIS IS WHAT I WANT, PLEEASE SOMEONE LISTEN TO US!
Since when is a $600 netbook reasonable?
When it gets those specs.
Actually the answer we were looking for is: never.
When it has an optical drive, a 12" display and a dual core processor. Call it a "Notbook" if you like.
Are you kidding me? It's packing ION and an upgraded dualcore atom processor. It's going to be more than the 450-500 of the best netbook crop. The best netbooks with good keyboards/battery life (I'm looking at the NC10, NC11PBK, and 1000HE) all started around 450, you wouldn't expect to pay a little more for those big boost in power?
IT's got double the standard netbook 160gb, double the standard 1gb of ram, better processor, handles HD videos better, hdmi out.
If the battery life is good, I'm sold for sure.
Funny thing, you can buy a real laptop for $600. With a real dual-core CPU. Graphics...perhaps/maybe but generally more disk/RAM and upgradability.
I never understood why they didn't just slim down a normal laptop and hang a 12" screen on it without the uber-fancy nonsense they insist on stuffing into ultra-portables that make them cost 2 grand and more.
The whole netbook nonsense is pushing too far when they're costing more than a regular laptop. Low weight is nice but for $600 get a MID to placate the spendy uber-geek in yourself.
@Tim
Most cheap-o 15-inch REAL laptops may have similar or better specs, but are large, heavy, hot, and have a terrible battery life.
put this in the 2140 or 1008HA, and I'm sold
Me too.
YES! This was the one I was waiting for! Ugly as hell, but it has the specs and hopefully I can upgrade it myself to 4 Gigs of RAM.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
WANT!
+ Win7!
WANT!!!
It seems like everyone wants netbook designers to do the impossible. If it were possible to put a dual core processor and the Ion platform with a 10 inch screen, have good battery life, and keep it under $500, don't you think someone would have done it already. It's just not possible with the current power consumption/heat dissipation, and component size/cost.
That said, this netbook/notebook, is the closest thing that I have seen to what I am looking for in a portable computer. The 12 inch screen is very welcome, since I feel that a 10 inch screen just doesn't have the real-estate for everyday tasks. And the inclusion of HDMI with the Ion platform makes it great as a platform from which to stream video from the internet and display on my TV. Now the only question is when/if it is coming to the US.
My guess is that it still can't play youtube in full screan, let alone youtube in HD.
For that kinda money on can buy a 14" laptop with decent configuration.
Wasn't the whole point of the ion platform to enable full HD via onboard graphics? I'm pretty sure it's got an integrated 9400m card, which is the same as the new Macbook Pro 13/15 inch base models.... All the benchmarks i've seen suggest it's a capable system for video playing/encoding, and light gaming (I think it was running CoD4 at 30fps but I don't remember).
If a reseller brings this out over here with a decent choice of OS i'll probably pick this up.
@ jacilk
What AlCabone means is it probably won't be able to run flash HD video. Unlike other codecs, flash isn't decoded using graphical acceleration, it uses CPU processing only. That's why many people complain about single-core atom netbooks and Hulu, because the CPU just can't keep up with all that flash.
@AlCabone
Well, I think all atom CPUs should be able to handle youtube in fullscreen, maybe not youtube HD though (then again, I don't own a netbook). I'm not too interested in this though, the design isn't that great, and I would prefer a ION solution with a 10" screen and no 330 atom (ION is using enough of the battery life as i is).
yea 600 isn't quite reasonable, although it is a nice looking netbook with some power
Fail. That laptop is too expensive for a POS processor like that.
I am not even going mention the nb word.
Hmm.. atom A330, 2GB of RAM, 320GB of HDD, a 12.1” LCD with a 1366x768 resolution, a DVD, Wifi b/g/n, 3x USB 2.0 port, HDMI out, D-SUB for 1.92kg and 59,980 Ye ( 444 Euro / 613 USD). And for those interested in a different look you can chose ASRock Multibook G22.
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/06/asrock-multibook-g22-another-dual-core-atomnvidia-ion-laptop.html
Hell yeah I'll pay that for it. Light, with a decent CPU and good graphics capable of carrying full-HD all I'm asking for is at least a 6-cel battery and its heaven.
Now that's what I'm talking about. This is just the first, we'll see more netbooks pairing Atom 330 with Ion.
Now THAT'S what I'm talkin ' about!
Yupeee, It will be out on the 26th and I'm ordering one. It rules.
before going for this u might want to look here..
http://makemylogic.com/2009/06/21/how-to-choose-a-netbook-the-logic
Come on bro, look at the obvious specs. You're not talking about picking one of 50 almost-identical 10 inch netbooks. This one has:
12.1 screen running 1366x768 >> larger screen than most netbooks
2GB DDR2 by default and you can order it with 4 >> double the normal netbook RAM
320GB (5400rpm / Serial ATA) HDD >> double the HDD space
integrated DVD SuperMulti burner >> which netbooks don't have
HDMI output so you can plug it in any HD-ready TV and watch full-HD movies
It is perfect for anyone wanting a small laptop with lots of power in it.