Aving has just posted a report from the Asus World 2008 conference about the Asus N10 netbook/laptop we covered earlier. The N10 looks simply wonderful and there is no mistaking that this is a high-end piece of equipment. What is probably the best thing about this device is that it has an Nvidia GeForce 9300GS graphics card. Try finding that on another netbook! Other previously unknown specifications include a 320GB harddrive, 2GB of RAM, LED backlit 10″ screen and an Intel N270 (Atom) processor. Add this to the previously known features (HDMI, Altec Lansing speakers, fingerprint reader) and you have one powerful machine. And it looks great too..my new favorite netbook. Let’s just hope the battery life is good. More pictures over at Aving.net.
Chippy writes: Techticker reports that it will be officially announced on the 13th (Sat?) and will have a price of $1140 and a 6-cell battery good enough for 6+hours. This is Atom breaking out of its cage and Intel and notebook manufacturers definitely won’t be happy to see it but its definately going to happen. Users are realising that they prefer good-value, small form-factor and long battery life more than anything. It really wont suprise me to see the average size on notebooks come right down with users being happy with 10-12″ models with long battery life as a result of the netbook craze. If Atom is good enough for that then Intel and traditional laptop sales will suffer.
Weight would seem like a major factor for this. If it’s in the same weight class as the E4200 and U1330 I don’t see it sell that well.
If they add a nice touch screen and keep it at around 1kg I’d buy it.
Chippy
it’s not in your product list…
since most of the time this site is talking about netbooks (since this is a very ‘en vogue’ market at the moment) you could add it the list… at least we would know the footprint, etc. of it…
thanks in advance
I have to say that this one probably isn’t for the Ultra Mobile crowd and as i’m only 1 person + helpers here, I only have time to focus on the Ultra Mobile stuff. Thats why there are lots of netbooks missing from the db right now. But, I understand how interesting this market is for many, if not most people here so am looking to share the database out to someone that will defintely keep the netbooks up to date. This is currently in planning so stay tuned!
Now this is a netbook that should surely be on everyone’s list, I do hope it comes out to the States!
decent GPU, sounds good.
Great news, actually I really don’t care what Intel think Netbook is nor if their notebook CPU sale will drop.
I do care about what I got, and a discrete NVIDIA graphics care sounds pretty good.
I am only guessing but people will take 12″ as too big to carry around and will not accept in the future anything that doesn’t have a swivel touch screen.
$1140? You’d have to be insane to pay that… sure, the large HDD is nice, but this is really missing the point of a low-cost ultraportable. It’s even bigger than the 1000H (though only slightly), yet still only has the 10″ screen. I’m quite happy with my purchase… if I really wanted a 320gb HDD and 2 gig of ram I could get them aftermarket for a total price of $750US.
I think Asus are really missing the mark here… they need to put a 1280×800 11″ screen in the 1000H chassis.
I too would welcome a 1280×800 11″ screen (I do not see the point of an edge > 1,5 cm around the screen), provided the Netbook stayed under approx. 1,2 kg & price around or less then 600 euro.
What?? $1140?? Sorry I missed that part! I agree with you Anthony, Atom based “NETBOOK” costs $1140 is insane.
Not worth the cost and modern 3d games may not run fast enough on it anyway. I’d rather see (and pay) for an improved IGP as it fits a netbook much better.
The usual 10″ screens are g.r.a.i.n.y looking compared to the 8.9″ size ones. I owned an MSI 10″ Wind, but returned it only because of the grainy screen which the 1000h has the same issue with. The N10 will have a higher build quality and maybe resolution so for $999 this could work for Asus if it also runs a dual core atom.
More definitive details on september 13th. :)
No grainy screen on my Panasonic R3. (I seem to bring this up every time people are talking about full-featured 10″ laptops.)
That said, although I get along fine with my R3 (and if it ever dies, I’ll be getting an R7 to replace it), a lot of people have said that they think the screen is a little too small to work on. More people might be convinced by the netbook craze that they can make do with a smaller screen, but I bet a lot of people will still want more space.
This reminds me of the LG A1; same 10.2″, dedicated GPU.
The price is definitely unappealing. I would rather buy an HP tx2500 for less. It’s a tablet with equal GPU power.
The NVIDIA GPU may allow better video playback, though.