Atom-powered Wizbook has speed but less agility
- Red Fox, Reviews, netbooks -
MANY people who still want to have a computer opt to buy a cheaper model to save on cost and perhaps leave some more for other items to buy. Red Fox is now one of the cheaper brand names in the desktop and notebook PC market that can appeal to a wider range of buyers.
However, its first foray in the “netbook” business through its AMD Geode-powered Wizbook was a difficult one, especially when it left out certain features that would normally be found in other models, especially a webcam.
But the first batch of Wizbook LX800 can take pride in having the longest battery life for a netbook since it uses a 3-cell 2200 milliampere-hour (mAh) battery that allows the Wizbook LX800 and the lower model LX700 to last for at least four hours.
But after six months, Red Fox started offering the Wizbook 1020i, which is using the Intel Atom processor. Incidentally, the 1020i is actually the LX800 with an Atom processor, plus additional 512 megabytes of memory to make it 1 gigabyte. It also comes with a webcam and a more powerful 4000 mAh 6-cell battery.
THE ULTRAMOBILE PC business is heating up as more hardware manufacturers are getting into the fray. Not to be outdone, computer manufacturer Red Fox and AMD have launched the Wizbook, which will compete with the Asus Eee PC (which technically is not a UMPC).