On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:59 am, Ian bell wrote:
I have just seen this laptop advertised at Ebuyer for £380 and it is supplied without an OS. What do you think?
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=5306890111&action=... vd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=84710
IAn
Hmm it's cheap enough but in my experience the C3 Nehemiah is not a very fast chip, it's floating point performance is pretty poor and clock for clock it compares badly to almost every other modern x86 implementation out there.
You often find them in MiniITX boards (of which I have had a lot of dealings with) and in my experience you should expect about the same performance as a PIII 500.
So with that in mind you could pick up a second hand laptop PIII 500 or higher, get better build quality, more expandability and comparable or better performance.
Not to mention that 512MB memory limit (even when throwing away the supplied 256MB), abysmal quoted battery life and annoying US keyboard.
Oh and I don't think it includes a PCMCIA slot so you are out of luck if you want to add wireless without resorting to one of those USB adapters. (actually there is another way round that but it's a hardware hack and probably warranty voiding)
Sorry that sounds a bit negative overall doesn't it :-)