When confronted with the prospect of a dual-processor netbook, a tiny 10.2-inch computer featuring not one but two 1.6GHz Atom processors, I can only echo the prosaic and considered words of my editor Dylan Tweney, placed at the top of the e-mail containing the tip-off: “WTF?”
The machine is the “Swordfish Net 102 Dual Netbook Computer”, and we wonder why on earth anybody would make this thing. Is there any advantage to sinking two Atoms side-by-side into a netbook, other than to quicken the drain on the already weak three-cell battery? It gets odder. The netbook has a decent 2GB RAM, but only a 160GB hard drive. It has “Dual Bluetooth” for tethering to a smartphone, but also has a WCDMA 3G cellular radio built in. It also has (and this is a little unfair to point out, but we can’t help it) the rather wonderful sounding “Keyborad: 83 keyborad”.
The Swordfish does at least have one killer feature: price. At $450, you can afford to send it to the computer-shrink to have its dual personalities sorted out.
Product page [Haleron. Thanks, Kyle!]
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