Behold the Midget PC Royal Rumble

May 2nd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

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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  1. #12

    Comment by Nick on 3 July 2008:

    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>>>

  2. #11

    Comment by attydenden on 4 June 2008:

    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

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