Jalapeno Hot? ECS Pentium 4 1.6 Notebook $1164, shipped

[Princeman]

So I went to CC today trying to find one of those Celery $699 notebooks I missed out on (doesn't seem possible I know). No luck. But I just found this on Pricewatch and started thinking, what's up with this? More money but more notebook. They got a 2.0 notebook for cheap too. Hot or not?

Pentium 4 1.6GHz + Win XP-Home 1 year warranty incl. 15 XGA TFT-LCD; 128DDR; 10GB HARD DR.;SIS650 VIDEO(TV OUT);IEEE1394;4USB(2.0);MODEM/LAN $ 1164 25 Infinity Systems Plus, Inc.
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(Edit: You guys were right! "Currently we do not have the P4 - M processors available." I already got a toaster, so I'm probably not getting one of these.)

 

[Pennstate]

This thing uses a external battery or cord. That's why it's so light.

 

[Royboy81]

From what I can tell reading the specs, this is not the new P4-M, so heat and battery power consumption might be an issue.

 

[TEEZLE]

This is the dektop cpu inside it. My friend has one of these and is bigger and heavier than the 8200!!! It's absolutely huge. The battery life sucks on it too. I'm waiting for the new Geforce4 laptops to establish themselves (come down in price). Good post though for the info.

 

[Luden]

Your looking at a mobile frying pan with a short battery life.

 

[Sanjoelo]

Japaleno?

 

[Scarpozzi]

Actually it is prolly Jalapeno hot cause there's definitely gonna be heat issues with this. Most mobile processors generate enough heat in those confined spaces as it is...and with a processor that doesn't have any power consumption monitors on it, you're going to be wasting not only battery power, but laptop life...heat takes a toll... If you buy it, check the Target part of amazon.com for pot holders...they're usually pretty reasonable.

 

[Jejunum]

everyones insulting this deal but i dont see why its so bad...

i assume this 1.6 ghz processor is a .13 micron p4... so besides missing speedstep it doesnt run all that much hotter than a -m processor

in other countries (like all of europe and asia) non mobile processor are UBER popular because they are so much cheaper and only lose like 15 minutes of battery life....

ACK: just noticed it says clearly .18 micron processor

but all the same "Can be upgraded up to 2.0GHz, Willamette core "

order this w/ no processor and put in a .13 micron p4 and its an AWSOME DEAL imho

 

[Kingofcomputer]

this is not real notebook, it uses external battery, putting some desktop version stuff and some notebook version stuff into a notebook chassis, that's why it's so cheap.