<div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">Hi Didi,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">4 words: Stay away from this!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The machine is based on an old VIA CPU and chipset. The fan makes *tons* of noise, and you might burn your laps, since it's power management sucks.</div>
<div dir="ltr">5 hours battery life? sure, if you shut down the screen and the hard disk. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I remember reading about a similar machine (they all have the same part, same build, same design, just different lables). It is *utterly slow* piece of junk. It's webcam really sucks and skype (specially the latest one for linux) will crawl with it. How slow is this machine? try this: Celeron 600Mhz is way faster.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I would not recommend buying this. If you're going to buy a netbook, buy something with an Atom processor that has good battery life. Today, the average ASUS or MSI netbooks with Atom can achieve about 10 hours from the battery (9 cells), and they can run Skype well and you'll get full compatibility for all the hardware inside with any modern Linux distribution, be it Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS, SuSE, Mandriva etc.. </div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It costs more, around 2.5 times more (depending on your negotiation skills with the seller), but as an owner of Asus eee 1000HE I can say it worth every Shekel and it saved me couple of times. I just came back from Zefat and surfed the net on the bus going to Zefat and back home without any charge, and that include 3G connectivity and charging my E72 from the netbook. Not bad..</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hetz <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/14 Yedidyah Bar-David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux-il@didi.bardavid.org">linux-il@didi.bardavid.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
I am considering buying a FIC CE268 laptop, and would like to get reviews<br>
about it from current users of it.<br>
<br>
It's a low-profile "netbook", costs 699 NIS in officedepot:<br>
<a href="http://www.fic.com.tw/product/ce268.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.fic.com.tw/product/ce268.aspx</a><br>
<a href="http://officedepot.co.il/catalog/catalogSku.do?id=4236592&pr=QJ5&N=2%2032937&sgID=10" target="_blank">http://officedepot.co.il/catalog/catalogSku.do?id=4236592&pr=QJ5&N=2%2032937&sgID=10</a><br>
<br>
Does it work well? Is all the hardware working well? Sound? USB? Webcam?<br>
Wireless? How long does the battery hold?<br>
<br>
Does it seem to have reasonable quality? Can I expect it to work for more<br>
than the 1 year warranty they provide?<br>
<br>
What distribution of linux does it arrive with? Does it support Hebrew<br>
well (i.e. as well as other current common distros)?<br>
<br>
Is the webcam giving good pictures in linux? I recently used two different<br>
USB webcams that worked well in Windows and in linux did work rather well<br>
but gave a too dark image, with no apparent solution.<br>
<br>
Does it work well in skype? That is, like a faster "normal" linux PC?<br>
<br>
Is the keyboard comfortable enough for touch-typing? I do not expect to<br>
type a lot on it, thogh.<br>
<br>
Does it run hot after several hours of use?<br>
<br>
Suggestions from current users of other similar small/cheap<br>
laptops/netbooks that are easily bought in a store in Israel with local<br>
support/warranty are also welcome.<br>
<br>
TIA,<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Didi<br>
<br>
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