M6n Dothan review

Check the link ... it's broken or it got pulled.

hm... didn't expect much... and battery life is disappointing...

Cool. Thanks.

Battery: 3.08 hours or battery life... I get better then that on my AMD64.
Weight: The weight is comparible 6.9 v 7.5
3d: slower then my eMachines m6805.
CPU: probably around more then 1/3 slower then the AMD64.
Wireless: slower then when I get. At 25 feet I get 48-50Mbps, vs. 12.1 @ only 5 feet.
Smaller screen (15.1 v. 15.4)
The card reader does not support the industry standard which is CF, and so is useless.
The system lacks a firewire port.
The m6n has inferior sound (compared to the M680x).

And the real kicker is it is nearly twice the price.

Why bother?

You get that much with everything turned down and the CPU down-throttled, the screen dimmed, doing office apps.
You are comparing an overclocked video system to a stock system.
You got confirmation on this? Please don't state things you don't know about. This is the Dothan.
Ummm....wrong! 15.1inch screen is bigger.
Umm...heard of PC Card slot? It's perfect for CompactFlash with an adapter, which is why some card readers choose not to include CF.
Yes, it does have a firewire port.
I'll take your word on that one.
That's due to the reseller. Just wait until esctech comes out with the proc.

hm... if I was choosing between those two I would still go with asus... first of all it's emachines second of all their looks are pretty dull if you ask me

Perfect reasoning. Excellent rational. You want the expensive but slow one because it's prettier.

Dude take a look, they both look very generic. One is faster and costs over a grand less.

Why get all bent out of shape?

I'm sure it's occurred to most of us that it's probably fake.

If it's still that price around May 10th, THEN we can get bent out of shape.

So? They were using the same methodology to arrive at their 3.08 hours, I'm sure. This is the standard method for refering to battery run time. The Pentium-M (such as in the Asus) throttle down even further.

Nope stock v. stock, although the difference is trivial. Prerhaps not so trivial if you buy the slightly more costly m6809 w/ the 3200+

Actually this part was pretty much smack talk. I suspect the A64 will be significantly faster, but do not know. I suspect that once Win64 is released this performance delta will be even more significant. This is just a 1.8ghz chip. It has a larger cache, but is only 5% faster clock rate. The 1.7P-M is around a p4 2.55 equivalent. The 1.8dothan will be faster then this, but not alot. Perhaps as much as a 2.8, more likely around a 2.7 (but just guesses based on math not testing). This compares poorly to the emachines which match or beat P4's at 3.0 and 3.2 (6805 or 6809).

15.1 is larger then 15.4 how?

This sort of logic is just so flawed I don't know where to go with rebutting it.
Why have any card reader at all?

I missed that.

The point is, that no matter how you choose to bicker about this little detail or that, the m6805 is marginally to significantly faster, longer running, better wireless, more capable, as good or better at any task and for around 1/2 the price. I seriously doubt other reputable merchants will sell this unit for 1/2 the price of this offering.
And if they come down 20-40% in price, you'd still be paying more for less.

I'm sure they're very nice. They seem to be paid rather well to be so nice.
You can get the same performance for a far lower cost. I can't tell you how to spend your money, but it might be worth it to consider your options. Because, no matter how you justify the price... it is too much for what you get.
For over a grand more then my system you should not be slightly slower, or less capable. You should have a system that was clearly superior.
Perhaps as superguy and deltawalker suggested waiting 3-4 weeks would be worth it in this case. (not that it will shrink far enough by then in my opinion)

I checked and
a 15.1 is 12 x 9 inches.
a 15.4 is 13.06 x 8.162

So a 15.4 is more then an inch wider and less then an inch shorter (compared to a 15.1)

But the 15.1 is slightly larger 108 square inches vs. 106.6, which makes it 1.2962% larger.

No the screen was the one on my m6805.

With reguards to CPUs.. You can compare anything to anything.

CPUs are all about work done over a period of time.

Now we know what the dothan 1.8 will consist of. We do not know everything about it as fact until we get out hands on it, but a certain degree of reasonable extrapolation is not unreasonable. The mantra that this CPU can't be compared to that CPU is bunk. You can compare big-block v8's to tiny turbo I4's. They are built completely differently and other then using the same fuel to do similar work, they have next to nothing in common, but comparisons are still valid and not only can be made they should be made. Buying something on faith is best left to church not laptops.

Did anyone save the review? Seems to have disapered somewhere again...