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$399 Widescreen lappy @ BB

according to everex's website:

Memory: 512MB DDRII 533, upgradeable to 2GB. 2 Memory slots onboard (1 open)

Battery: Rechargeable 6-Cell Lithium-Ion battery averages +3.0 hours - 4.0 of normal computing usage. (Battery Mark 4.01 = 4:25:20)


really tempting since i want one for school. i'm kinda skeptical about the reliability though...
 
Iono if this is any different from their mini-itx offerings (seems to be, since C7 rings a bell), but they're slow POS's.
 
But seriously, I wouldn't even bother with this horrible laptop...it'll run slower than slow, especially with Vista (even basic) installed.

Just wait until some website with a flash graphic and a java banner pops up and the CPU chokes and dies.

BTW, this thing is approximately equivalent to a 900Mhz-1Ghz Pentium 3, lol.
 
Ditto here.
It was cheap and it ran hot like h*ll but it did serve me well for a couple of years before I ended up trashing it.
 
I was not able to O/C that bitch at all!!! arggg!

lol i think it was when diablo first came out , i had 166mhz i believe 😛
 
Might not be as bad as you think. While it's no screamer, the C7 is actually decent for lowend tasks. Here's a review of a Via C7 based lappy. Might last longer on battery power than a comparable AMD/Intel based lappy as well, if you can live with the lower end performance. The only problem with the review is that the notebook in it is running XP, not Vista. This BB one comes with Vista Basic and that can't be good for performance.

EDIT: It's environmentally friendly!! 😉 I'm curious to see how long it would take this lappy to rip a DVD or execute a small VB app, or how it will bench with Vista.
 
I would wipe the Vista and install Windows XP if you're worried about the RAM count. C-7 have very low power consumption, so it should help with battery life. How many $400-500 laptop do you see around that can pull a 4:25 battery mark?
 
Originally posted by: Odeen
Cyrix was purchased by Via to kick-start their CPU manufacturing.
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So was IDT's WinChip. VIA produced one generation of Cyrix designs, then dropped them for IDT's design. Pretty much all VIA chips are based on IDT design, with the notable exception of the "Cyrix III" line.

So Cyrix is dead. VIA did keep most of the Cyrix engineering team though, and merged them with the IDT engineering team.
 
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