EeePC 701's selling for S$398 in S'pore now... clearing stock.
I think tourists can save a further 7% off that price by claiming back GST.

I don't know when this 'promotion' will end but it's definitely not restricted to the PC Show.
I just walked past some stores in Funan and they had advertisements for that S$398 price.

I think from some benchmarking done on the Atom vs the Celeron M's in the current Eee's, the Atom doesn't seem to deliver as much as anticipated from the numbers and conclusions other people had.

Sorry, I can't remember exactly were is the link but a good start would be the eeeuser forum. I think the S'porean VR-Zone EeePC forum also had a thread on the Atom's performance.

1.9kg already considered good leh.
My last work laptop is like 3kg, and I find the 2kg of my TX2000 is pretty manageable.

Don't forget to factor in the weight of additional batteries if you are the frequent traveller / 'road warrior' type.

Thanks Bad Cyborg for digging up the benchmark data.

For all you know, the whole UMPC craze might just collapse, as mainstream laptops get more budget-friendly, lighter, and smaller, and the UMPC's get more expensive, heavy, larger.
10 bucks says they'll converge at 10" screen size.

I disagree. The future trend is brain-implanted CPU.

As you said, the future is to be imagined.

Let's wait and see.

Whatever you do, don't buy from seller 'Lycfeng' on Ebay.
That b**** f***ing cheated me. RMA 2 months already no response.

That being said, even in S'pore, there are only a few shops that sell Eee extension batteries (6600 and 10400mAh) batteries and I noticed that most on VR-Zone eventually bought through Mass Orders or directly through Ebay.

Here's a link to one such S'pore shop. Knew them from an IT expo:
http://www.innovative.com.sg/battery/produ...roducts_id=5126

Looks familiar?

I have a poor confidence on Sony stuff after that episode in the past when their batteries were exploding all over the place.
So I have valuate your Viao SZ as equal to a lowly EeePC 701.

Eh, how do you know... may have happened. Anybody reported it to you ah? Are you news central?
Lol.

No lah. Just generally bashing Sony.

There's VLC (www.videolan.org) player for Linux... runs on my 701 EeePC.
It's one of the best multi-format-compatible freeware players.

USB HDD (3.5"?) casing connected to desktop DVD-RW drive?
Sorry I am out of touch with IT nowadays, but that actually works?

Thanks... I learnt something new today.

If only they had a tablet-pc version of the Eee...
Is any of the 90x and 1000 series Eee's with touchscreens?

Disappointed... it's probably something easy to design in and manufacture (hence the easy availability of the touchscreen conversion kits online) by Asus, but probably it doesn't make business sense. I am tengah syiok with my HP TX2000 tablet PC but at 2kg and 12.1" is still abit bulky to be really mobile. But the form factor when folded rivals an opened EeePC... now imagine if the Eee can also be folded and be a tablet...

Yeah, the Kojinsha has all of those features... but I'm thinking of something around 9" screen and has a beefy CPU too... OK, plus I have an irrational preference for Asus stuff.

Does Kojinsha or Fujitsu or anybody else have a 10" touchscreen tablet UMPC that's about 1kg and have 4 hours battery life?
Don't think so, but that's my ideal UMPC if it ever comes out...

Are you running on the stock battery?
What's its capacity?

Haiya, the EeePC 701 with the 5200mAh battery also can reach 3.5 hours like that lah.
My 701 can already clock 3 hours with the 4800mAh battery, with screen brightness 10%, no WiFi, playing MP3 with earphones, reading e-books.

I only see a screen with the Apple logo. Could be just a picture. Doesn't prove that Mac OS is installed on that EeePC.

As a comparison, the 901 is S$798, 1000 is S$888 in Singapore (prices inclusive of 7% GST refundable to tourists; advertised in Challenger IT chain store).

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Added on July 17, 2008, 11:47 pmAcer Aspire One is S$699. With the Atom CPU, I think it doesn't give any reason for the HP Mininote (S$888-999) with the VIA CPU to exist...


This post has been edited by cjtune: Jul 17 2008, 11:47 PM