Some Comparison Photos with a Thinkpad, MSI Wind and Kogan Agora

The MSI wind on the left, has rounded corners and a sightly slopped keyboard top to bottom, which may be a factor for you speed demon typists out there over a length of time

The three from the side, from front, Lenevo Thinkpad 61, MSI Wind 100, Kogan Agora netbook, keyboards of the 2 netbooks look the same but I cant help feeling the MSI feels roomier somehow.Both are fine to the touch and as mentioned above the MSI has a slight slope to the keyboard which is more obvious in this photo.

Just another size comparison, not much info I know but unfortunately I have been really busy and not had the time to sit down with them all properly, I would say though I have given the original Kogan OS a go, and Unbutu and would be happy to just get windows XP onto the Kogan Agora and have no complaints really

Delivered, so let's unpack it!

Ok guys, the courier finally came good and I signed over for a white plastic satchel bag obviously containing a carton inside. Opened the bag and was surprised to see a plain white carton with no markings whatsoever front or back! Anyway opened the carton up and found the netbook, power pack and bluetooth dongle and.....................well actually that is IT. Nothing else, no check-list, no info, no warranty, no manual, no power warnings etc etc as in what one could expect with any electronic purchase.
Now I know Kogan is a "Paperless Office" but this is a tad ridiculous at least one page with a few details would be nice upon receipt of our new toy! They have just put up a pdf file on the site.You can get it here

So we now have a netbook, battery, power pack and dongle and need to work out what to do. Not too difficult getting the battery at the back as there is really only one way it can go in, just make sure the little locks each side click in to secure it to the machine.

Turn it back up the right way plug the power cord in and you are ready to fire it up. ( there is a plastic sheet of film to peel off the screen and the top of the case , to reveal a quite nice shiny textured lid!)

I videoed the set-up procedure and will upload to youtube so you can see in real time how long it takes etc.



Pretty simple though choosing your location, time, user name etc. Here is a screen shot of the desktop once you are signed in.

I have read comments that the touch screen is very "Touchy" But for me it seems about normal and I will check, but they can usually be calibrated one way or another. They are a bit weird and touchy if you have only ever used a mouse before and it doesn't not take long to get used to them.For those who love the mouse of course just plug in your mouse into a usb port and away you go like normal.






Here a few other pics for now will upload youtube videos and get back to you soon

D Day today...

D Day for the new Kogan netbook. As in delivery day, its 12.25pm (arvo) and no chocolates just yet but they said around lunchtime so I better go have some lunch and check the batteries are charged in the camera.

Don’t forget I am going to try and do some on camera comparisons with the MSI Wind which we also have, so stay tuned
Update 3.03pm Rang Toll the couriers and my parcel was still sitting in the Geelong Depot at 1.30pm, the driver did not go back for it this morning, anyway after a few heated words they agreed to get it out to me this afternoon...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

KOGAN AGORA NETBOOK PRO

Ok folks, time to kick the son off my Desktop computer and laptop! So I have decided to give him my old Lenevo Thinkpad (less than a year old) and buy myself the new kogan agora netbook pro for when it is handier to fire up the smaller unit watching sport or away from the house etc.

As you will know I purchased the 42 inch Full HD telly last year and it has not missed a beat and I am pretty confident that Ruslan Kogan has done his homework and found us a good system spec and deal on price.

Just like before I will be doing a running commentary on the whole process from order to delivery, setup and function etc...Now all we need is the 10th of April to roll ahead people.STAY TUNED