Hellooo Onkyo. Sure, it's just a rebadge of the Japanese
Kohjinsha DZ-series dual-display rig we've already seen. But Onkyo's DX raises the bar significantly by delivering a pair of 10.1-inch 1,366 × 768 pixel LCD displays (
as promised at CEATEC) that easily trump the 1,024 x 600 panels used on the Kohjinsha without increasing the portable's overall size. While we're still looking at the same 1.6GHz Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU, ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and 3x USB jacks, Oknyo's offering
starts with 2GB (not 1GB) of memory standard expandable to 4GB, a 320GB 5,400rpm disk (not 160GB), Gigabit Ethernet, and 32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. Here's the best part: it's priced at just ¥84,800 (about $966) compared to the Kohjinsha which lists for ¥79,800 / $909 on Kohjinsha's retail site or a steep ¥100,800 / $1,148 premium if purchased through the
GeekStuff4u exporter. Guess which one we'd choose?
posted December 10th 2009 4:11AM
get those bad boys borderless and you've got a deal.
@cashclientel : Ya, those borders are ugly ugly, don't care if it useful or not
I'm amazed at how cheap sweet computers have become. $1000 is a lot for those specs, I suppose, but it's a nice computer at an affordable price. I love working with dual screens, and this is a seriously tempting laptop. If it has a thinkpad-eque keyboard, I am all over this.
That laptop is nice for people who dont mind staring at a black barin the middle of one's visual field
@JS I guess you have never used a PC with 2x LCD before.. :P
@JS
It actually helps to have the border. I don't want one big screen. I want two separate screens. I'm not trying to play Crisis. I want a spreadsheet in one window, and a browser in another... or whatever.
so it can't play crysis? is this confirmed?
@JS Gezz, where are you poeple coming from, you have such a superfluous thinking...
dual screens are brilliant for dev'ing and graphics work
neither of which i'd want to do on such a low spec'ed machine
seriously, what's the point of having dual screens on a nettop?
@mrqs
I bet most people using dual screens use them with a word processor or other data entry tool. Dual screens for data entry or typing while researching or grading papers is really quite nice.
And these specs are excellent several years ago, obviously. If someone was able to use dual screen with this power then, they will be able to again today. If you're a power user, you aren't looking for a cheap computer, of course, but let's be fair. For people who want dual screens, but don't need power, this is hard to pass up.
@mrqs I work as a business analyst, we do lots and lots of excel work, job gets so much easier with a dual screen setup. People with this kind of need is the target for this machine, I don't need a core i7 to do my excel thing. They may went ulv way because of the increased power consumption of the dual screen.
@mrqs
I'm a student, and I use dual (or triple) screens whenever I'm working on a project. One for Word, one for sources / data / excel. It really helps not to need to flip between windows whenever you need to refer to something else.
As far as performance, I want HD video playback, but nothing else is really necessary. Office doesn't need that much power.
I would actually love to use this if only it had digitizer tablet capabilities.
Conics.net has got them about $50 cheaper then Geekstuff. http://conics.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=682
@(Unverified)
yes they do. with $150 shipping. :(
If they had just put a touch screen on the primary screen so it could be used as a tablet to take notes at meetings, that would hands down be the new laptop I got in the next month or so.
A faster processor would be nice too.
I.... I kind of... want it...
It's "just a rebadge".. with different specs?
But this one has better specs how bizarre ?
And is cheaper,
Im confused ?
quiet cheap really