If you head over to TigerDirect, you’ll notice the CybertronPC Mini-PC CM900. It has a 900mhz processor, 512mb of ram, 2GB SSD disk, and a design that looks really familiar.
Why does it look familiar? It’s really a badged black ASUS Eee PC 2G- and it’s priced at $359. I’m not sure about you, but I’d certainly prefer an original ASUS branded Eee PC 2G- especially since it’s about $60 cheaper.
[thanks, minikrak]
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Is that even legal? Seems that they take advantage of the open source nature of the Xandros distro and include that as well (scroll down to see them marvel at it). “Note the clear images and easy-to-read text – this is an excellent screen!”. Technically that’s actually the ASUS-developed OS, not the screen. What a complete ripoff.
Rip- I’m sure they formed an agreement with ASUS to badge/brand it with their logo and company
-Ant
If you look at the specs, its different to the 2g surf (unless they’re wrong) as it says a 900mhz celeron (not 800) and the memory can be upgraded to 1gb!
Oh, great. Scroll down to the “about laptop batteries” part.
I’m never, ever buying from tiger direct. They’re perpetuating the rumor that Li-ion batteries need to be treated a special way. Morons.
I would be interested to see if the BIOS is allowing the CPU to run at 900Mhz. If not, you might have a lot of complaints from people who (ignorantly) bought the computer on the premise that it runs at 900Mhz, since that is how it is advertised on the product page.
As a sidenote, did anyone else notice that they looked up their company name on Wikipedia and came up with the fabled home of the Autobots/Decepticons?
anyone else lolhard at the advertisement that they’re #15 for something? G’hey everybodies, we’re numbar 15! Thats a wuuuuun and a fiiiiive duh-huuuyuh
tiger direct is a fine company. they dont own this product. they are a company that buys refurbished, rebranded is just something that they decided toi buy. Tiger is like fry’s electronics for Canada.
autobots / decpticons??? what? the company is a respected electronics dealer.
Well the pricing or the spec is off as has been mentioned in the forums….this is like a 4G Surf with a 2Gb SSD. Their specs page *has* to be wrong.
$60 over the odds for a 2G, is the RAM upgrade option and less SSD worth that – if the specs are right?
what a rip off!!! it looks exactly the same as the black eee. *angry face*
It’s not a rip off, I just a way to show that the eeepc its not a toy and is really a hit laptop and the concept its going to be duplicated many times.
This one is almost like the surf with a few mods.
It looks to me to be a rip-off, not a rebranding. Note:
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Modem Ports: N/A
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VGA Ports: N/A
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Memory Slots (Total): 2
And there is the image of the SSD, which looks like a mini-PCIe card (note, that may not really be what is in there). But yes, the OS/software IS a direct copy of the EEE’s (based on the pictures), although it does have a slightly different software loadout.
To be honest, I’m tempted to buy this just to find out what the difference is. Anybody order one yet?
I’m with Ant, this looks like a re-badging exercise, similar to what RM (Research machines: major computer supplier to UK education market) are doing in the UK.
Two things:
1. Asus has for a long time made barebones notebooks that other companies and/or mom & pop shops could complete and sell under their own name. An end user could even buy some of them and build a notebook to suit themselves. Heck, a _lot_ of the large names don’t design and build their own notebooks, but get them from Asus and others. So like Ant says, it is not unlikely that Asus would sell the Eee reference design to someone to finish off as they see fit.
2. TigerDirect is just like any other company, and like any other company, it _must_ be labeled refurbished if that’s what it is. Everything I have ever bought from them was accurately labeled as to what it was. Granted, their prices cannot really compete with NewEgg’s, but then who’s does? I’ve mostly bought items with rebates (I know, I know. But I’ve been lucky so far ), and have never had a problem with misrepresentation.
I bought the long waited eee pc, I’m quite satisfied with the laptop. But the only big MINUS is the battery life! very short (30 to 60 minutes working time only)! You can not even work for one hour with a fll battery. My friend bought one too and he has the same problem. Do anyone have these problems too? I need to use the power adapter at any time
I thought the solid state design is less power consuming..
Do someone also have these problem?
It looks like they adjusted the spec sheet to reflect that it actually runs at 800MHz and not 900MHz. But of course, it makes no mention of the fact that the CPU is probably underclocked and most users won’t be able to figure out how to run their Eee… err CybertronPC at 800MHz.
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