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Jasonbot
Nov 26, 2008, 11:45 AM
I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I really want an eee pc 901 (the one with 8 hours of battery life) but I'd also like some great sennheiser pxc 350 or 450 headphones (noise cancelling ones). I can only get one. My idea behind teh netbook is that i kinda need a laptop thats cheap to complement my nice and dated iMac (2.16ghz white). I dunno what I'd use it for, maybe university next year although I really am a fan of paper. The headphones I'd liek because I originally wanted some great noise cancelling headphones but only got some mediocre ones in the on ear pxc 250's i was given by my parents. advice please :) Maybe some otehr options?



SnowLeopard2008
Nov 26, 2008, 12:23 PM
I'd get the headphones. Depends on what you "need".

xparaparafreakx
Nov 26, 2008, 12:29 PM
Headphones. Get the netbook next year before you go to school.

Jasonbot
Nov 26, 2008, 12:30 PM
well I don't really need either. Both just wants I guess. Maybe I could get a cheaper netbook and headphones? Whats teh cheapest atom powered netbook, anyone know?

cube
Nov 26, 2008, 12:36 PM
You should wait until next year when AMD offers their Athlon-based "netbook" platform which operates in the same power envelope as the Atom platform just by using an efficient chipset instead of a low-power CPU.

Jasonbot
Nov 26, 2008, 12:42 PM
Headphones. Get the netbook next year before you go to school.

varsity starts late january :P

cube
Nov 26, 2008, 12:49 PM
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10096494-64.html

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081114-yukon-ho-amd-shows-off-new-ultraportable-roadmap.html

Jasonbot
Nov 26, 2008, 01:37 PM
So u guys are basically saying next years netbooks will pwn atom and I should hold off till then and just get the headphones :P

PS thanks for the links cube!

cube
Nov 26, 2008, 01:57 PM
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997.html

To get an idea of what performance level to expect from Atom:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-efficiency,2069.html

Also note that Intel does not allow Atom dual core on notebooks.