It seems like that Onkyo move just one step ahead with Kohjinsha by revealing its new DX series of netbooks with high resolution dual screens. The Onkyo DX1007A5/ DX1007A5B is coming with 10.1 inch display and at first feels like Kohjinsha DZ range with the same 10.1 inch wide screen, but Onkyo offers high resolution display panels ( with 1366 x 768) compared to the Kohjinsha (1024 x 600 ).
In hardware specifications also Onkyo is little bit higher than Kohjinsha. Onkyo is enclosed with 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, when Kohjinsha got a 1GB RAM 160 GB HDD.The Onkyo features include a 1.3MP webcam, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.7-hour battery Wi-Fi (b/g/n) Windows 7 Home Premium and is is powered by a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor
The device is going to hit the market at the end of december in Japan and has a price tag of $953(84,000 Yen, €646, £585)
I loved the idea a small notebook I could carry around to replace my pad of paper, but they all fell short in one area. Battery life. The latest 1000 series Asus netbooks fixed that shortcoming, claiming a 10.5 hour battery life. They way I use it, not much wifi or blue tooth, I’m getting close to that. I would guess that a steady diet of wireless would cut that to 6-7 hours, still long enough to last a day. The keyboard isn’t quite full sized of course, but very easy to get used to. The screen is sharp and bright. It’s fast enough for most non-graphics intensive applications, I’m running OpenOffice, Firefox / Thunderbird, Evernote, Paint.Net and a few other utilities with no issues. The track pad is so-so, for heavy use other than taking notes you’ll want a mouse. I have a tiny Samsung mouse, works great. I’m enjoying it and would buy it again.