as the second rush of Early Adopters-wanna be’s await for Official Korean release of Apple iPad, the earlier ones who have already used the foreign versions know this ain’t no laptop NOR even a NetBook, more so if you had intended to supplement for any serious business . and true to the last script murmured at the end of the hopeful Sci-Fi movie ‘2010 – The Year We Make Contact’ : something /wonderful/ is going to happen .. and I mean in the realm of us roaming business people who always mix business with pleasure : there really is a single wish in the end . to have a powerful notebook laptop netbook with sufficient battery life, that you can carry around . oh, and in an affordable price . and we have TWO for Fall 2010 . sorry, NOT time yet to carry around laptop or notebooks larger than 14″ inch screen //

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ASUS EEE PC 1215N Duo ION2  introduced October 2010 lowest online discount around W640,000
Atom – D525 (1.8GHz) – LED backlight – 12.1″ inch 1366×768 – 320GB HDD – 2GB DDR3 RAM – OS NOT included – NVidia ION2 – share system memory – weight 1.46Kg – 6cell battery – 100Mbps LAN 802.11n WireLess – HDMI D-SUB WebCAM BlueTooth – Multi-Card Reader Slot – block keyboard – colors in Red, Black or Silver

yes it is an Atom . the wonderful chip that drove made-for-mobile NetBook onto us but that lagging feeling, even when running your basic Microsoft Word OR Adobe Acrobat – the price we paid for putting all this into a tiny ultra-portable computer – never went away, until now in Duo 😉 mid October 2010 currently most sellers have only Silver

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ACER Aspire TimelineX 3820TG-5464G50n introduced September 2010, lowest online discount around W1,070,000
intel Core i5 i5-460M (2.53GHz) – LED backlight 13.3″ inch 1366×768 – 500GB HDD – 4GB DDR3 RAM – 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium – AMD(ATI) 라데온 HD5650 Graphics 1GB – weight 1.84Kg – 6cell battery – 1Gbps LAN 802.11n WireLess – HDMI D-SUB WebCAM BlueTooth Multi-Card Reader Slot – color in Black

  1. a rather carry-able weight notebook laptop in
  2. ultra-thin (term for notebook category used in South Korea from 2009 for thin laptops with enough power comparable to a working desktop, so more on the costly range usually Sony, SamSung or LG)
  3. with enough power to play but the most extensive games out late Summer 2010 and
  4. sufficient battery life of 4 to 8 hours (now this depends twice battery hours whether you are using the basic OR added graphics card)

no complaint what-so-ever . except that ACER has had a bad, when there were, and not long a product support history, NOR reliable at that, in South Korea . but we all want to forget that OR simply deny this vital Achilles’ Heel exist at all, for this cotton candy seem so downright delicious ! yummy

[ December 15th update ]
since the release of the new Apple MacBook Air 13″, this is the cheaper AND a bit heavier alternative among young Korean college students . now with an attractive price of an incredible W910,000 at certain conglomerate on-Line shopping malls – currently Lotte iMall, CJMall and Farmers and Fishermens SNeShop –  accepting periodical 5~8% discounts on specific credit cards such as KB KookMin, BC, HyunDai or ShinHan (formerly LG).

adding to the line-up is faster but more costly Core i5-560M 2.66GHz selling for W1,030,000
and a prestigeous Core i7-640M 2.8GHz at W1,300,000 with discounts – but the fun part is that you can inter-change and upgrade the CPU yourself from the basic 460M model above and save almost W100,000 after selling the original CPU .

also, 2 months after my original post, buyers who bought mainly for the relatively bargain price, are still having a hard time with Acer product support in South Korea . almost to the tune of HTC cell phones who receive calls from Taiwan across the sea . attendants response is sloppy and they don’t have parts to fix AND will NOT admit anything is wrong . as I accentuated in my laptop or notebook dedicated information Page on the top menu : product support is a serious matter to consider when buying a portable machine where the latest technology is crammed into miniscule space PLUS the fragile LCD screen . so to me this is still gambling in Las Vegas .

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– Korea Tech BLog, October 2010 –

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[ November 1st update ] guess what the cat dragged in ? 2 new subnotes that slid in to complement your decision on the above two :

Asus EEE PC 1215T introduced October 2010 lowest on-Line discount W500,000
AMB Athlon II Neo K125(1.7GHz) LED backlight 12.1″ 1366×768 / 320GB 2GB DDR3 RAM / OS NOT included AMD(ATI) Radeon HD4225 1.46kg 100Mbps LAN 802.11n Wireless HDMI D-Sub WebCAM BlueTooth Multi-Reader / block keyboard red,black or silver

– single core but price-wise than above Asus EEE PC 1215N Duo ION2 –

Asus U35Jc-RX109V introduced October 2010 lowest on-Line discount W1,000,000
intel Core i5-460M(2.53GHz) LED backlight 13.3″ 1366.768 500GB 4GB DDR3 RAM / 64bit 7 Premium nVidia GForce 310M GMA HD dual graphic / 1GB DDR3 1.9kg 8 cell batteries / 1Gbps LAN 802.11n Wireless HDMI D-Sub WebCAM BlueTooth face recognition / Multi-Reader block keyboard in black only

– at around the same price : slightly less specs than ACER Aspire TimelineX 3820TG-5464G50n above, but with more dependable product support in Asus –