Elara Online - Asus 11.6" Netbook up to 8.5 Hrs Batt - €289

Catalyst

1 Day Head Start for boardsies, only going out on emails tommorrow.

http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfullat.asp?productcode=ELA1761324

€289

mjquinno

are you sure this is a bargain alert and not advertising - apologies if im wrong

Zonda999

Alright deal, no bargain though

11.6" is decent for a netbook i guess but some would be put off by the lack of windows 7 starter, which a lot of netbooks have now, Interesting this has an atom Z520 processor rather than an N series atom processor like most netbooks, what would be the implications of that, thought the Z series atom chips was for MID's rather than netbooks

Alanstrainor

The Z520 wouldn't be as powerful as the N270, but in reality, the word "power" and both of those processors don't really go together anyway.
I think i would steer clear of this one, simply because of the processor and the GMA 500 integrated graphics, it doesn't get much worse really.

Rsaeire

Zonda999 wrote: »

Alright deal, no bargain though

11.6" is decent for a netbook i guess but some would be put off by the lack of windows 7 starter, which a lot of netbooks have now, Interesting this has an atom Z520 processor rather than an N series atom processor like most netbooks, what would be the implications of that, thought the Z series atom chips was for MID's rather than netbooks

There are no major implications by using a Z series Atom CPU over an N series, at the same processor speed, as the TDP, feature set and speed are practically identical. With that said, the Z520 used in the Asus netbook does have a lower TDP and slower speed than the N270 generally used in similar spec'd netbooks.

You can compare the difference in more detail here