Considering their rather poor battery life, what’s the worst extra you could possibly add to a netbook? A DVD player, you say? We’d agree.
Which is why Mouse Computer’s (heard of ’em?) new LB-F1500W is a mystery. Alongside the standard netbook specs (Atom processor, 160GB HD, 1GB RAM) sits a dual layer DVD burner, ready spin optical discs and thirstily suck at the battery. At least Mouse had the courtesy to fit a large capacity six-cell battery, although the claimed 5.2 hours operating time surely only applies when the DVD player isn’t used.
When Apple took the optical drive out of the MacBook Air, the world (or the world of tech writers at least) gasped and whined. But it proved to be a smart decision, and you could always hook up an external drive.
Sure, netbooks are almost all the same these days, and some differentiation is nice, but DVD seems dumb. It comes at a price, too — the LB-F1500W will cost a whopping ¥64,000, or $720. There is one thing that could make this useful, though — a DVD drive makes it easy to install other operating systems. The machine ships with Windows XP home, but assuming that there are hardware drivers available, the optical drive would make installing OS X a breeze.
Product page [Mouse via Crave via Jersey Boy]
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