And you thought the days of the netbook were done in the wake of the pad of paper takeover . Think again . It ’s using IFA to establish the EeeBook X205 , a netbook in all but name , that will cost $ 200 .
It ’s to pad what the vinyl revivification is to digital downloads . An 11.6 - column inch laptop , it ’s ply off an Intel Atom Z3735 Bay Trail processor . Though its 1366 x 768 projection screen is a resolution secondary enough to hark back to that brief clock time when netbooks were all the rage , its other internals are a number more up to date — you ’ve an option of 32 gibibyte or 64 GB of solid state storehouse , and a battery life sentence that ’s a satisfying 12 hour long . A measly 2 GB of RAM however stand for multitasking on the machine may be a bit of a job — I could imagine Windows 8.1 with Bing ( pre - install here ) will be chugging a bit on this .
Only 17.78 millimetre heavyset and a little under a kilo in weight , it is extremely portable though , packing in a microSD card reader , micro HDMI port and 2 USB 2.0 port wine . If Chrome o puts you off getting a Chromebook and you ’re look for a back - up travelling machine that wo n’t give away your back whilst out on the road , it could be deserving a look . It will cost $ 200 when it becomes useable toward the end of this year .
This postoriginally appearedonGizmodo UK , which is gobble up the news show in a different timezone .
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