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Old 04-16-2009, 11:50 PM   #1
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Hi, who has this mini PC notebook? I just ordered one and expecting...

Just checked, it has E-Booking Read function. Then really very curious that who have some experiences with this mini PC notebook as an ebook reader? Or maybe i can share more with you after received it. Hope it could reach to me asap.

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Old 04-17-2009, 12:09 AM   #2
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Old 04-17-2009, 01:23 AM   #3
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Old 04-22-2009, 05:46 AM   #4
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Just received the mini pc notebook, it really has E-Booking Read function. Now i also have a e-book reader now.
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Old 04-26-2009, 02:43 AM   #5
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that's cool, I hope your Eyes last out, after reading on my EEEPC for 6 months, I had cronic EYE pain and focusing issues until I switched to eink
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Old 04-26-2009, 04:52 AM   #6
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Just received the mini pc notebook, it really has E-Booking Read function. Now i also have a e-book reader now.
How long will it run for on a battery charge?
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Old 04-26-2009, 05:05 AM   #7
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mini notebooks run very hot, and beside the eyestrain issue, i found the heat coming off my eee just too much to deal with. others don't seem to mind.
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mini notebooks run very hot, and beside the eyestrain issue, i found the heat coming off my eee just too much to deal with. others don't seem to mind.
perhaps it was because I had the SSD 701 4g version, but it ran pretty cool, unless I blocked the air vents for about 20 minutes

but while reading, with the computer held like a book. it was fine, though slightly heavy
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Bouncey, how's it going? I need an update from you on how this is working as an ebook reader. Congrats!
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that's cool, I hope your Eyes last out, after reading on my EEEPC for 6 months, I had cronic EYE pain and focusing issues until I switched to eink
Oh, so terrible. Hope you are ok now. Thanks for your remind.
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mini notebooks run very hot, and beside the eyestrain issue, i found the heat coming off my eee just too much to deal with. others don't seem to mind.
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that's cool, I hope your Eyes last out, after reading on my EEEPC for 6 months, I had cronic EYE pain and focusing issues until I switched to eink
I'm only about six weeks and three novels into using my MSI Wind as a reader, but no complaints so far. It barely even gets warm, much less hot, and as long as I manage the brightness level, I'm not seeing any eyestrain w/ ebooks (comics are another story, but even there we're not talking headache eyestrain, just a kind of tired itchiness). If you have software that lets you set ebook background colors, I've found that black-on-yellow provides clear, sharp text at minimum brightness.

There is some possibility my experience of "no eyestrain" is actually the relief of eyestrain now that I'm not using Opera Mini on a 2" screen a couple hours per day
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Old 04-27-2009, 09:14 AM   #12
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mini notebooks run very hot, and beside the eyestrain issue, i found the heat coming off my eee just too much to deal with. others don't seem to mind.
That very much depends on the type of the mini notebook.
My toshiba libretto 50 - THE grandfather of all the mini notebooks - has no moving parts except for Harddisk. No fans, not even heatpipes for cooling.
And I have set up the power save option in Bios to switch off the disk after 5 minutes of inactivity.
So after opening a book and reading for 5 minutes there was no part moving inside the notebook. The notebook made as much noise and excess heat as my Sony Reader PRS500.
Toshiba Libretto 50 features the very first model of pentium processor (at whooping 75MHz). Yes this is the processor with the famous bug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_bug
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How long will it run for on a battery charge?
Generally speaking, it lasts about 3-4 hours. It also depends on how to use.
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In the past I used UMPCs, tablets, and netbooks/mininotebooks for reading, but now I use my beBook/V3
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In the past I used UMPCs, tablets, and netbooks/mininotebooks for reading, but now I use my beBook/V3
How about your eBook/V3?
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