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Philips Freeline x50

  • 13-12-2005 8:42pm
    #1
    geecee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭


    Hi All
    Just wondering if anyone has any experience with the Philips Freeline x50 series as for sale in PC World?

    I'm mainly interested in it because of its small (12" screen) and its one of the first 12" laptops that i have seen with a build in Optical device:

    http://www.pcworld.co.uk:80/martprd/product/PHILIPS/X50/956042

    - Intel Pentium M 740 Processor 1.73GHz
    - 533 MHz FSB
    - 2 Mb Cache
    - 512 Mb RAM
    - 60 Gb Hard Drive
    - DVD ReWriter MultiDrive
    - 12.1" TFT Display
    - Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
    - 128Mb Intel 915GM integrated graphics

    Alternatively i would be intersted in any other 12" laptops that are available with build in optical device... Dell have none

    And neither have Acer from what i can see...


Comments

  • #2
    Endurance Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    Phillips make laptops now :confused: , new one to me.


  • #3
    daywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭daywalker


    Yeah Dixons group and philips made an agreement together to manufacture and sell the freelines, which is actually a trademark for dixon's, so you can only get them in a dixon's group shop at the moment.

    here is the press release from philips
    http://www.press.ce.philips.com/apps/c_dir/e3379701.nsf/0/630B763263F25B22C1256F510047C337?opendocument


  • #4
    geecee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭geecee


    Anyone else got anything to add?
    It really seems strange that nobody has anything positive or negative to say about the Philips Laptops!
    Does nobody out there own one!:eek:


  • #5
    Endurance Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    geecee wrote:
    Anyone else got anything to add?
    It really seems strange that nobody has anything positive or negative to say about the Philips Laptops!
    Does nobody out there own one!:eek:

    M8, its obviously a VERY new brand off laptop, not many people are gonna have tested them extensively. Just go for something tried and tested rather.
    As i said, i have NEVER heard of a Philips laptop!!


  • #6
    dawballz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭dawballz


    hey geecee did you end up buying this laptop?
    My GF is looking for one.. either x60 or x50..
    the x60 is slightly smaller.. 10.6" screen, but ~500 notes more expensive.
    she doesnt know which one to get.. is the smaller(widescreen) display worth the extra 500 bills?


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  • #7
    geecee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭geecee


    Hi Dawballz
    I didn't go for the freeline x50 in the end.... simply because nobody in the world ever seem sto have even heard of them!

    In fact this thread is the only thing that appears in Google in relation to them (except philips press releases!)

    The other thing that put me off it was the fact that the display and photo model they show is without battery, and as far as i know the battery is a big ugly mother that plugs into the back of the laptop, giving it pratically the same dimensions as a 14" laptop

    And PC world never reduced it in their sale!

    I think Aldi may have a similar model to the x50 coming in on Thur 12th, looks to be very similar anyway, same chassis, but with an AMD 64bit turion processor... and 100 less with more freatures...


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