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"Um, okay. That's four months away. Why is this bad news?"]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://74.125.127.132/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.dospara.co.jp/5goods_pc/pc_detail.php%3Fh%3Dd%26f%3Dd%26m%3Dpc%26mc%3D1070%26a%3D1&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddospara%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enUS332US333&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhjzTKppuhMzOpzi5EwGRuCmJF8DOg

Enjoy your 2 hours of battery life. Just get a laptop.]]>Jul 28th 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 29th 2009 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/
At this point they're all jockeying to get the "next" chip from Intel a few days before the other guy so using ION just upsets the intel applecart.

Intel is doing its part to straighten out the netbook market for Windows 7 so Win7 netbooks on current Atom (that everybody says works really well) won't compete with the first round of "premium" Win7 notebooks. ]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/
Acer and Asus would really wait 6 months on the off chance that an as-yet undemonstrated technology might be as good as technology that is available now? I don't buy that. The Zotac IONITX motherboards prove that Atom + ION is a great combo, more than capable of 1080p h.264 playback. It's available now, and it's not expensive. If somebody were to stick a N330 with an ION chipset in a netbook, they would do VERY well. Especially with the competition sitting on their thumbs until next year.]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/
...they would then start complaining about reduced battery life.]]>Jul 28th 2009 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/The S12 won't get an ION till Windows 7 release.

The N450 means the death of ION, since it'll mean no choice but Intel graphics, seeing as it's a 1 chip solution. Better snatch up that S12 when you get a chance, it'll likely be the only one you get.

Hopefully they can make a netbook like the N10J with switchable dedicated/integrated graphics. I'd love to have an N450/Nvidia ION switchable netbook, save on battery life but have that extra horsepower when you need it.]]>Jul 28th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/
ION uses no more (and in many cases, less) power than the Intel alternatives.]]>Jul 28th 2009 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/ 7. I know I would rather have a modern OS on a netbook than XP]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/The dual Android/XP netbook wasn't interesting to me ... but a dual Android/Ubuntu one might be. Or Ubuntu with the Dalvik/Android runtime on top (that Canonical is working on). I suspect I wont need Acer for the latter though, and will be able to run that on my Dell Mini.

What I am disappointed about is: this basically means the EeePC T101 is on hold. I definitely wanted to see a Linux version of the T101 and T91 (with touchscreen rotation properly implemented).

EeePC T101 + (EeeBuntu or Xandros) + Dalvik == gold.

EeePC T91 + (EeeBuntu or Xandros) + Dalvik == silver.

EeePC T91 + (XP or Vista or Win7) == crap.]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/
hold everything until the next big site shows up.]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/Jul 28th 2009 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/acer-and-asus-reportedly-freeze-netbook-releases-until-2010/]]>Jul 29th 2009 6:13AM