(This video was edited with windows 7 video editor on this PC.)
This review manifested from something a little different than most reviews or posts within this blog, which is normally reserved for rantings on my home PC. I recently picked up this Onkyo and I don't actually intend on buying an Apple IPad. My main goal was to get the smallest PC I could find that wouldn't drive me to drop kick it after typing a short email. I backpack various countries & book rooms day before or day of visiting, and I wanted something I could carry thats as lightweight as possible, but usable.
After checking out an array of different products on the market I must confess when getting into the 7 inch screen size, you really don't have many choices for a large keyboard. Most keyboards are "mini" with much smaller keys. The market is also been dominated by Asus and their Eee Pc's. Unfortunatly they run 8.9" and larger and don't have alot of the features the Onkyo NX or Kojinsha(discontinued) sport. Items such as Touchscreen, GPS, and non solid state HD's are to name a few differences.
A few weeks ago Apple announced here the Ipads specs. The display is 9 inches, a pretty large screen, though they say it will run 10 hrs on a battery. It got me thinking of other ways this Onkyo NX beats the Ipad even before it makes it to market. Below, a few items off the top of my head:
- Keyboard as well as touch screen
- Win 7
- Flash works!
- Open (in the sense I can run Ubuntu if I wanted to, and as much as you can say Windows is "open" in comparision to Apple)
- Micro Flash Card
- 80 gb hd
- Multi task ALL apps (Ipad will most likely multi task only native apps)
- Battery Life (supposedly 7 hours more)
- Mobile 3g
- Larger Screen
- Do not know about the proc, the theory is that it will be (or equivalent to) its 1GHZ A4 making it slower than the current ATOM 1.33
