AMD-powered Wizbook aims at Eee PC

I don't think even the best configured Linux distros would run smoothly on a processor that slow. I guess it doesn't matter to someone who'd be slower than the response time anyway...

the Wizbook is already available in Manila for 18,000 pesos, around $400

video of the launching of Wizbook in Manila

http://www.inquirer.net/vdo/player.php?vid=869&pageID=1

Well your title should actually say: 'Cyrix-powered Wizbook aims at Eee PC' since that's the cpu inside the Geode LX.

The "Lazee" PC's dothan will run circles around the Geode.

I have to agree, the Geode isn't a worthy processor for really...anything anymore.

So yeah, you have double the battery life with a serious performance boost. If it takes twice as long to perform tasks due to a slower processor, than you're not really reaping the benefit of a doubled battery life.

I pray for the failure of this, they should have gone with the Atom.

Any IT bod will take one look at that CPU and turn away.

There is cheap and 'cheap and nasty'. This obviously falls into the latter category sadly.

You'd think with the money they saved fitting a non-SSD storage device, they'd put a better CPU in than the eeePC. 

But no. They've just been greedy and gone for a better profit margin.

They've blown it.


The Geode LX is the same CPU that's used in the OLPC, but it's a little dated in the face of the Intel Atom 1.6 GHz CPU in the next generation of the EEE PC, which consumes only 4W. The Atom is 4x as fast as the Via C7 CPU, which is in turn 2.5x as fast as the Geode LX. So we're looking at a 10x performance difference between the Atom and the Geode LX. Apples and Peanuts comparison, IMHO.

Milli you've not kept up with the changes. The newer Geodes are Athlon based.

Only the Geode NX is a K7 chip, and it is nowhere close to the 2 to 4 watt TDP of the chips in these micro notebooks. The LX was pretty neat five years ago, but it's a complete waste of time in this world.

Why does t he 10.1" screen, 800MHz model have 1 whole hour more battery life than the 8" screen, 700MHz model? Both have the sa e, 2200 milliamp-hour battery. Makes no sense...

just thinking about how intel and chimpzilla have been promoting bad behavior for software makers. a lot of software out there is overbloated, web-browsers for example. i imagine what you'd want to do on a tiny little thing like this is to browse the web, watch dvds, email, chat, and maybe some light text/office doc editing. why can't that software be made to run better on a 200 Mhz arm processor? instead, software just relies on cpu's getting faster and faster. i hold intel directly responsible for this behavior. just think if we improved operating systems, compilers, instruction sets, libraries, etc such that they're performing optimally on all hardware. i mean i was running slackware 12 on an older pc and it was so responsive and fast with desktop applications, and then i installed fedora core 8 on the thing and it was crawling for the same tasks (of course it was windowmaker vs gnome, but still, you get the point).

Yup. A geode processor a couple of generations old. Max speed 500mhz. Yes the atom is faster. But there is no way, that the atom can meet the price of the Geode. None. Everything except for the ethernet is already on the CPU. One small helper chip, a nic, and sd/mmc controller on usb, ram and you are done.

Take the same battery as in the eeepc (4400 mAh) and you have a machine for your kids to play with on the flight from London to San Francisco... and no complaints about the charge running out...

don't forget... this is NOT a performance machine. It is a school typewriter. OpenOffice, firefox and thunderbird will perform just fine on this machine.

The 1024x600 resolution is a problem. WinXP offers only 800x600 resolution on this machine,and the bottom of the display (including the taskbar) is off the screen and therefore inaccessible.

Ubuntu linux (version 8.whatever) has similar problems with it.

Apparently the display chipset makes it appear to the software that the bottom part of the screen exists, but it's not part of the actual physical display.


Is the first comment a racial slur or am I just being "slow on response time?"