PC Mag ’s Cisco Cheng push overBill Gatesafter his CES Keynote , and mugged him for the Asus W5fe Ultraportable notebook computer he demo . You know , that ’s the one with a second liquid crystal display on the back of the lid that displays Vista ’s Sideshow widget screens . He revels in the computer ’s sizing , and take care upon its battery life with disgust ( 47 minutes of movie playback ! )
But the real story is the Sideshow screen and how it works .
He key the petty LCD as about the size of one witness on an iPod video recording , adorned with a crosspad and some back and prime buttons . Widgets were limited in selection at this early junction : Music playback , email , calendering , pic playback , neckcloth ticker , and a camera utility that use the laptop computer ’s built in 1.3 mp River Cam to take guessing , lid down .
Cisco does n’t call it a problem , but I think it is : Sideshow needs to either wake your HDD / information processing system or your electronic computer and some consecrate flash mem to lock . Also , there are power vexation . Sideshow powers up your computer from sleep to update itself . That ’s a power drainpipe . I theorise its nice for some to be bothered when you get new junk e-mail , but it seems pretty useless on the road , unless you ’ve got cellular data , and set it to a scrimpy 1 hour between check . Battery life sentence is too cute to be squandered like this . But this is n’t the Asus ’s defect . It ’s a defect in the utility of Sideshow itself .
This computer ? It checks out ok , but I ’d say its not the stunner you want until they deposit the battery .
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