SlashGear Japan
No prizes for guessing which style-conscious computer maker DosPara have been snatching glances at while designing their Prime Note Helios DN laptop. Sadly not all the glossy sexiness has made it over – draw-loading optical media is passé compared to slot-loading, while the rest of the casing (particularly the keyboard) just reeks of parts-bin raiding.
Still, specs aren’t too shabby: a Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a 100GB SATA hard disk and a GeForce Go 7600 graphics card with 512MB of VRAM. That uncool optical drive happens to be a dual-layer DVD burner, while a 17-inch, 1680×1050 screen, 2-megapixel integrated webcam, HDMI and eSATA ports round things out. It’ll retail in Japan either pre-loaded with XP Home or without OS, for 191,980 Yen ($1,625) and 179,980 Yen ($1,523) respectively.
DosPara Prime Note Helios DN Laptop [iTech News Net]
One Response to “DosPara notebook looks distinctly Mac-ish”
Name December 23, 2006
Yeah, but speaking as someone who’s had three computers with slot-loading drives and a car with a slot-loading CD player, they SUCK. Of the four slot-loading drives in my life, only the one on my old iBook never had problems. The drive on my iMac never worked well to begin with, but by the end of its life you couldn’t load anything in it and expect to get it back. My MacBook is in the shop right now waiting for a new optical drive because it’s started refusing media. And my car’s CD player has been replaced once because it started keeping discs, just like the iMac.
Give me a tray any day.
Hey, that rhymes!
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