Behold the Midget PC Royal Rumble

Joseph Plazo | May 02, 2008 | View Comments


It used to be that the Asus Eee PC ruled the ring in the 7″, sub-1kg arena. So compelling was this baby that everyone from techeads to fashionistas lugged this punchy PC around. But that reign is about to end. Now, a flurry of muscular midgets are muscling into the Asus Eee PC arena- boasting lighter weights, heftier hard drives and more dazzling LCDs. The leading contenders to the Asus Eee PC include the Neo Explore X1, Astone UMPC and Deep Blue.

Check out the blow by blow spec chart:

UMPC Round Up

Chart provided by Yugatech.com

Despite being the first to market, I doubt that the Asus Eee PC can maintain its dominance. Asus is priming an 8GB model for its successor but what’s 8Gb to Deep Blue’s 40Gb? It’s no match. The smart money’s on the Blue.

I love my 14″ 2.0Ghz Core2Duo with 2GB of ram and a GeForce Go. But the thing’s a pain to lug around and battery croaks till an hour and a half. Shame on you Compaq. Looks to me that a Deep Blue is lined up for purchase!

I’m betting that after reading this chart, some of you are already planning a second laptop. Right?


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  • also got myself one of these...
    I got the Linux version but loaded it with Windows XP Pro, which has crashed twice already, until I learned how to strip it down. aside from the couple of times that it crashed (which might've been more my fault because i assumed that the machine can take all the heat that windows gives), it's works just fine. then again, i installed a copy of xp pro, which from what i understand, is a lot heavier than xp home. probably why the windows version uses home edition.

    to compensate, i disabled a lot of windows programs (media player, IE, MSN messenger) and didn't install MS office. instead, got the portable apps version of many popular freeware/opensource programs - mozilla, openoffice, pidgin, etc. and even replaced windows explorer with a version of Blackbox.

    now, it's working great...

    Read Nick's latest blog post....Avengers: The Initiative>>>
  • attydenden
    Bought a Deep Blue H1 myself last week.  


    The linpus os was great, but being a windows guy, I have the windows sp3 installed.  It was slow at first and has been using the CPU at 100% but my friend made some registry changes and had some tweaking. For now, the H1 has been running smoothly and a find it to be my replacement to my big ASUS A8F Series laptop
  • Clint
    Bought my H1 at PCExpress. 

    I noticed that after some online updates to Service Pack 2 of XP - it boots up very very slow.  I managed to fix this somewhat by applying some registry fixes (particularly prefetch settings).

    As for linux distributions, linpus seems pretty ok, if it were not for the wifi issues (doesn't work well with WPA).

    Other linux distributions don't have the via binary blob that linpus has to show the desktop in its 800x480 resolution (all new distributions I've tried defaulted to 640x480 resolution - from PCLOS and Mandrake to Linux Mint).  The thing is though, wireless works for these distributions unlike Linpus.  If via gets out the vga driver for linux, then probably, I'll take the linux switch back.
  • Jon
    Hey,
    Where did you buy the H1? Im planning to get one myself.
    TIA!
  • janjan
    Im using a pentium3 800mhz desktop on xp at home. Will this "mobile" 1ghz be performing at the same level with my desktop?
  • Rob
    I also have a Deep Blue H1.  Although i liked Linpus, it's wireless connectivity had issues.  So I switched to XP.  XP + Openoffice + Firefox, makes this a great travel companion.  I use it everywhere.Also, XP Pro SP2 isn't very slow on it.  Of course, I'm only comparing to my 1.2 Pentium M and 2.8 Celeron D.  But it's perfectly fine.Rob
  • I have the Blue H1 myself and experimented with Xp after toying with Linpus a bit.

    My reco? Go back to Linpus. XP does everything twice as long. Linpus never hung on me and accomplished tasks so rapidly.
  • Clint
    Hi all,

    I purchased a Deep Blue H1. To tell you the truth, Linpus Linux pales in comparison to the eeePC Xandros Linux version (wifi problems using WPA, unusually long loading times randomly happening). This fault is due to Linpus itself (pretty bad configuration and apt4rpm repositories are not configured properly).

    I re-installed using a Windows XP installer that was lying around unused (because my desktop is running PCLinuxOS) and suffice to say it works pretty well (the 1Gb RAM helps a lot for XP). It's a wonderful secondary mobile computer. I also installed MSOffice 2003 as well and winamp.

    Comparing linux to XP though, XP does run slower - as evident when I play videos (720x480 XVID HD) in both linpus (before I deleted it) and XP.

    Typing this in the Blue H1 now.
  • Sorry about the chart! Pulled it off google images and thought it'd make a grand comparison.

    By the way Yuga- I believe I saw you on TV once... GMA Network? The way you make money online is inspiring!
  • Ha ha, I just went back to Yugatech on 22 April because I thought I had seen that chart before ... right down to the prices in Philippine Pesos ... then when I opened the I see that Yuaga was already here and noted it as well.

    I'm just kind of an amateur in these sort of things, but isn't it the norm to give credit or a link when you just right click and copy someone else's work? I have made tables like this one before, it's not all that easy, especially to get all the research of tech specs sorted out ... I would have thought credit, at least, if not prior permission would be the polite thing.

    Everton, you know I have been a reader/subscriber a long time, manly because Connected Internet normally has fresh, original content. It's certainly a bit on the dull side to read the same stuff I read weeks ago on Yugatech.
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