Maxdata Belinea s.book 1 Gets Reviewed
Posted: January 29th, 2008 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: , Belinea, expensive, Maxdata, review, s.book, ultra portable, UMPC | No Comments »
If you didn’t know what a Maxdata Belinea s.book 1, it is basically the same deal as the Asus EeePC (if you don’t know what that is you have a lot of catching up to do). It is based on the Via Nanobook spec, so runs a slightly slower Via processor, but makes it up with a touch screen, Bluetooth, VOiP phone, Windows XP and 80GB HDD. It is also a hell of a lot more expensive then the EeePC, at £420 ($US835 currently).
The beautiful review was done by the lucky fellows at The Register. They liked it enough to give it 80%, but said “A highly portable, well-connected sub-notebook hindered only by a high price, low battery life and unnecessary add-ons…” It looks like the EeePC is still top of the UMPC pile, for this month at least.
For the review, click over to The Register.
The 22-inch design concept has already shown off at trade shows and what not, but no release date was ever set for it. Not any longer with it being ready to ship in the next couple of days.