The new netbook from TCL called intel 2go has arrive, it actually aim for Eee market which is made a new market of “budget laptop”. For the price tag under $400 sure it will attract people to buy it.
The screen is LED-backlit, it’s under 3 pounds and it supports mesh networking, using a ULV-processor Intel Celeron M 900 MHz or 1 GHz, Intel 915GMS chipset, 512 MB RAM (upgradeable to 1 GB), 9” 800×480 pixel LCD, 40 GB HDD, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, SD/MMC slot. You also get a VGA web camera, Windows XP (Linux as an option), 1.5 kg, 2 USB-ports, 3 hours on a single charge
I don’t get why they don’t use hybrid drives in these little things. Eee doesn’t have enough space with pure flash, and these 1.8″ drives are just too slow for regular use. If they combined the two like just add 2GB of commodity NAND on the motherboard somewhere, hook up the drive, and write up some kind of custom driver for XP to make it use the flash as a cache, then we’ll have the benefits of both, and everyone would be happy. Although it look like toys laptop for me, but it already bring 9″ screen, wider and bigger than Eee.
via mobile-review