Viewsonic VNB102 Netbook Hands-On
Feeling nostalgic for the initial batch netbooks? You know, from design, small keyboards with the wrong key and short battery life? Then you’re in luck! Viewsonic, a manufacturer of LCD TVs, projectors and other consumer electronics, released its first netbook, which will VNB102 Viewbook, a mass of mediocrity.
Like other 10-inch netbooks that came out last year, offers the VNB102 an Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB of RAM and a 160 GB, 5400 RPM hard drive. As the Averatec HS-105 announced yesterday, this little boy is running Windows 7 Starter Edition (at least that of this year.) But one wonders why ViewSonic is not for the newer Atom processor N450 Pine Trail wait.
The barrel-shaped hinge on this VNB102 to remember to original ASUS Eee PC 701 and Lenovo S10 and from 2008 onwards. Similarly, the keyboard is one of the smallest we’ve seen over the past year, and the shrunken right shift key, out of place, too reminded us of keyboards, we would rather forget, like the original on the Lenovo S10. We want that there are two separate mouse buttons, but they are too small.
Are the typical three USB ports, VGA, headphone and microphone and Ethernet, and a 3-in-1 card reader.
The VNB102 performed approximately the same as every other netbook: the score of 841 in Geekbench was 8 points above the average 3DMark06 score of 139 and 20 points below average.
Endurance is another issue: the 6-cell battery on the VNB102 only lasted 4 hours and 46 minutes, about an hour and a half shorter than the average netbook. This is the halfway point of the ASUS Eee PC 1005PE-P. Although netbooks with Ion graphics processors and larger screens comparable battery life, you have have a problem.
Viewsonic VNB102 sells for $ 399. This is more expensive than many netbooks, including the Asus Eee PC1005PE, which offers a better design, more comfortable keyboard, and much, much longer battery life.
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