Gdium Liberty Netbook Empties Your Wallet For 16 GB of Space
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While it’s definitely about time that someone made an effort to get away from the 1.6 GHz/160 GB HDD/1 GB RAM/Windows XP netbook formula we’re all accustomed to, sometimes it’s just better not to fix what isn’t broken.
The Emtec Gdium Liberty 1000 is a lesson in restraint, or rather, what netbook manufacturers should restrain from creating. The netbook eschews both hard drives and solid-state drives for a flash drive for the front of the machine. The idea sounds stable at first, and we were intrigued by it a few weeks ago when the Gdium Liberty netbook was announced, but therein lies one fatal problem: the flash drive is only 16 GB in size. Netbooks are definitely meant to be Spartan in getup, but come on – that’s just stingy.
You’d expect your sacrifice in choosing a 16 GB netbook to be rewarded by a miniscule price tag, but at $349 Gdium seems like it just wants to add insult to injury. Aside from the poor value offered by the netbook are a number of issues – weak performance and short battery life to name a few – that put the final nail in its coffin.
Via GottaBeMobile.
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