I’ve had loads of comments posted today from those of you who have received emails from Elonex or had phone calls with them confirming that their laptops are on the way…. all exciting stuff. Sounds like some people will be getting them before the week is out.
thekanester has offered to post up an unwrapping video – thanks for this, look forward to seeing it!
As the post title suggests, please post up any reviews and comments here when your laptop arrives.
Tags: deliveries started, delivery, elonex, onet, review, reviews
YAYYYYY! Silver OneT arrived this morning by Home Delivery Network I think (although I wasn’t paying much attention)
First impressions. Overall pretty impressed
– tiny tiny tiny. very light too. A little bigger than a VHS cassette.
– maybe even fit in a big coat pocket
– boots from cold to OS faster than any of my PC’s
– display better than expected. Bright and clear.
– wifi connected first time and seems pretty good all around my house.
– applications slightly slow to load, but once running they’re fine.
– Firefox browser expected, but it’s running bon echo which I though was an alpha release?
– not tried video/multimedia at all yet
– no obvious command line/terminal app
Now. How to install real player so I can use it as a wifi internet radio around the house…?
16:10 wed afternoon – its arrived!!!
now going to unbox, will post more info soon
16:14 – just unboxed it – contains the elonex one t+, a power supply and a manual, that’s it, no recovery cd’s etc
powered on, booted in about 30 seconds then died due to battery level, so will stick on charge for a while….
Mine arrived today. I’ll be putting it straight on eBay though as I got bored waiting and bought an Advent 4211….
Mine too arrived today. Black Onet+.
50% charged so I assume someone’s had it in Quality Control.
Pity they didn’t check that the keyboard actually worked. ASD, JKL and a few other keys on the lower rows don’t work very well if at all.
Can’t maintain a connection to a wireless router 6 feet away(Speedtouch780 with static IP).
After waiting nearly 2 months, with I must add, some confidence this would be a good buy I feel totally let down.
Will have to speak to them tomorrow (it’s 9pm now and I’ve laboured with it for a couple of hours). A refund is on the cards I think as I’m not willing to wait for fix/replacement. Hope I’m entitled -Distance Selling ?
Agree with chopps tho’. Lovely bright screen, good looking keyboard and I think quite stylish good looks all round but I really hope I’ve received a rogue and this isn’t typical.
yes mine certainly not impressing me either, wireless won’t connect at all, have connected via wired ethernet and updated the wifi drivers but still it won’t work
See my review at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4bY_sgIX20
Have installed Software Installer fix at
http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/software.htm
and made Onet to update over Internet.
Have not noticed any difference.
I’ve just phoned up and I’ve been told they are waiting for stock. Things are stuck in customs. Has anyone that’s received one ordered the starter kit to go with it?
I’ve been told (For the third time in as many weeks) it will arrive by Friday next week.
Jas
Got mine. All works ok
I agree with ChrisH about the wifi being a bit poor. other than that see great
As this is for my 5 year old can anyone tell me how to load on flash so the CBBC/Cbeebies site works? can seem to get the onet to open the downloaded file
Direct emails taken if allowed by the site
davecosford@hotmail.com
Help?
had it for one day and already I hate it!
won’t connect to my router unless I turn off mac filtering
can find no way to boot from usb stick or usb cd to try another OS (like I could with my EEE – used eeepclinuxos)
cannot get out of easy mode like I could with EEE, so stuck with mickey mouse interface
no obvious bios or way to get into bios to see/change settings
no recovery cd or download on website
This really is a poor piece of kit, very slow to boot and makes my eee look like a powerful laptop!
More techie stuff http://projects.kwaak.net/twiki/bin/view/Epc700/WebHome
I got mine 2 days ago.
It connected to my secure wireless first time.
It is what it is.
I didn’t expect it to out perform my PC or even my laptop.
However I can put it in my pocket and take it out.
My daughter can take it to school to do her A level work on and then back it up and I don’t have to worry about it.
It would be nice if it flash and as someone else has said Real player so that I can listen to Radio 7,
No doubt someone will come up with a way of installing a new OS.
All in all I’m reasonably happy with it, but I took a good look at the spec and knew what to expect.
Hmmmmmm. I’ve got two of the Onet+ and I’m struggling. Neither of them will charge up (even after 12 hours overnight) so I’ve had to run them off the mains power. Even with mains power the on/off button is temperamental and the units report random levels of battery charge – one minutes it’s 0%, the next it’s 100%, then the next minute it’s 25%. I tried to ring customer support tonight and after 15 minutes of being FIRST in the queue I gave up. I think I’m going to have to get a refund. I’ve concluded that both units have faulty batteries or a defective build.
As for the units themselves well I think for £120 they’re pretty good. General thoughts:
Unit recognised 80gb USB HDD with no problem.
1) I bought these for my two kids, 8 years and 5 years old. I don’t think I could give the kids these – the kids are too advanced in their computer skills and most of sites they really enjoy require a Flash-enabled browser running on a x86 processor. You can’t do youtube, bbc iplayer, cbbc etc… etc.. with these units. Educational software is also absent and there aren’t any games.
2) These are supposed to have a 2gb SSD but the file manager only reports 1gb. As well as a defective build in the power area these also seem to have been built with the wrong SSD.
3) On one of the units the mouse pad is ultra sensitive, difficult to use
4) Generally the software is ok. The media player actually handles .flv files – every youtube video can be downloaded as .flv so with a bit of jiggery-pokery you can eventually play them on the unit. I like abiword and the other office-software looks good. The browser is pretty decent too.
5) Don’t think these are usb 2.0
6) The OS interface could be better. It would be good if there was another mode other than noddy mode
7) Ignore horror stories of max 8mb file size – simply not true.
9) WIFI connectivity excellent. Make sure you enable b/g mode on your router – mine wouldn’t work with just g
I know it sounds like I’m moaning a lot here but I actually like the onet. I wouldn’t give it to the kids but if it wasn’t for the power and SSD issues I’d definitely be keeping one for when I’m out and about or on holidays. It really is a nifty little unit.
I have just been playing with my One T+. It looks and feels nice with a quality feel to the case. It is however completely different to the original Elonex One+ that I ordered.
The screen does not separate from the keyboard so it cannot operate as a tablet computer.
It is smaller and lighter (which is good) It is actually 21 x 14 x 3 and only weighs 665grams. sadly that means that the case that I bought from them is too big.
Although I bought the T+ it has only 1Gb of RAM and no Bluetooth so appear to not be the + model, even though it says it is the + on the case.
It has 3 USB posts and an SD card slot so expanding the memory without having something external to the profile is easy with an SD card.
The photo viewer and Video player work well. If you want a handy device to show friends your digital photos this is good. It copes well and quickly with large photo files but is better if they are resized to 800 x 600. Option include showing them full screen and slideshow.
It plays MP3s well at a potentially high volume on headphones so beware. There is no tone facility though so it will not replace your MP3 player. The inbuilt speakers are what you would expect from something about 1cm square!
I may also have the power problem referred to earlier and am still testing that.
When fully charged, there is no green light as the manual states, the red LED just goes off. Having charged it fully, the next morning it was dead as a doornail and needed charging again!
The software suite is lacking the 11 games detailed in then on line specification.
Overall a good effort but without the full specification of the One+ is not an “enhanced model”
So, mine haven’t been sent yet – ordered a starter kit, which isn’t available yet, so they haven’t sent the 2 laptops. . . clever. . .
What can I say ?
A superb machine, small like a little toy (that what the “t” stands for I presume ) and it all works.
Too many people waited for too long, therefore rush into trying to run before walking…
Great demo of the first opening on utube.
Does all I wanted and more.
Battery life ample and super fast internet wifi connection.
Lovely keyboard, and the best small screen by far.
Well done Elonex and thanks for the free upgrade.
I got mine 2 days ago and cannot get wifi. I don’t know where to get the key from so I can connect. Can anyone help please.
Received onet+ a couple of days ago.
“-” WiFi cannot be persuaded to work. I’ve tried WEP, WPA and open, on the router and Elonex, but the closest I get is “connected / invalid IP address” . It doesn’t want to know with a static IP either. It’s ok with an ethernet (cable) connection, and I’ve used this to upgrade the system software, but this hasn’t helped the WiFi. So, my family cannot use it unless it’s hard-wired to the router.
“-” Performance – machine feels sluggish, and there is a painfully long startup time for some apps (e.g. Firefox c. 10s). Remember, however, that this is not a water-cooled, dual-core, go-faster stripes machine
“-” appears to have only a 1GB drive instead of the advertised 2GB
“-” no games!
“-” no apparent means of installing additional software (I’ve tried the Galaga, Solitaire and Mahjongg found somewhere on the net – these run, but lock up the machine on exit)
“-” Careful with the SD card slot – it is not obvious or documented that the SD card has to be inserted upside down. Initially, I thought the slot was just a bit stiff and forced the card in. Fortunately, I didn’t damage anything.
“-” Documentation = pants
“+” build quality is good, machine feels solid
“+” battery charge life reasonable
Overall, my initial impression is one of disappoinment. A reasonable piece of kit let down by an undertested, unreliable OS implementation, with an incomplete, cobbled together software “suite”
Cindy,
The “Key” was decided when you set up your wifi router.
If you did not choose the key (few numbers of letters) then try to enter the number which is on the back of you modem/router.
BT for instance usually gives this one as a default.
Let me know how you go !
Serge.
Simon, dont give up!
This is Linux remember!
It will always be experimental to some extend.
You will crack the wifi set-up as you are 1/2 way there!
I agree with you, there is no documentation at all.
Mahjong and Solitaire work great on mine.
But SD cards are like that, they either go one way….or the other!
Phone, dongle, slots on computer they all read their own way there is no such thing as the right way up!
It will be nice to see on this forum a list of the wifi modem/router that works.
I have my doubt about all of them working….
Certainly a good way to check out.
Mine is an INTELLINET ADSL2+
Worked also on my neighbour’s BTHUB
Serge.
I’ve added a new board on the forum for people to post up sucessful hardware on.
People have apparently been having problems with the WiFi. There is a patch on the Maplin site with installation instructions here:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=225532&C=Newsletter&U=08P10-2&T=11925360
Trials and tribulations, disaster, then… success!
I was investigating the different themes available and somehow managed to permanently lose all the desktop icons. No problem, I thought, I’ll download the recovery image from Elonex and start again. However, **there is no recovery image** available – the links on the Elonex site are dead. I was resigning myself to claiming a refund when I found the (indirect) link on this forum to http://www.trendtac.nl/ – they sell a badged equivalent to the OneT+. Using Google to translate from Dutch to English, I found and successfully installed a recovery image, and upgraded it using the “software update” facility. So, I was now back where I started (working machine but no WiFi) albeit with a slightly different (but functionally equivalent) dekstop. Reading further on the site, I gleaned the fact that failure to connect via WiFi was not unusual – the suggested solution was to change the WiFi channel. This I did, on my D-Link DSL-G604T, changing the WiFi from channel 6 to channel 1, and bingo! The Elonex now connects successfully via WiFi.
I’m a much happier man now than I was 24 hours ago, and will now continue testing the thing out on WiFi as originally intended. Elonex tech support would do well to visit and learn from the Trendtac site.
One or two updates
The T Plus has got 2Mb of RAM but the second 1Mb is accessed via File Manager which shows 1Gb of memory in My Documents and 1Gb of memory in the Extend folder.
The T Plus looks the same as the “World Cheapest Computer” the Skytone Alpha 400 available for $130 in batches of 50.
http://www.liliputing.com/2008/07/worlds-cheapest-laptop-is-just-130-if-you-order-in-bulk.html
The wifi worked correctly in Weatherspoons.
Big USB memory sticks seem to be seen as 1Gb. I plugged in 16Gb and 15Mb went missing. Has anyone tried anything larger than 2Gb?
You confuse the Mb and the Gb,
also the RAM with the SSD (solid state disk)
KEYBOARD FIX
My ONEt keyboard had about nine keys that did not work. When I eventually spoke to the right people at the UK head office they explained a simple fix that just involved re-seating the keyboard cable. Seems like a few got past quality control on this…
Anyway keyboard works fine now. I would recomend calling them before attempting this fix just to make sure you do not invalidate your warranty.
I also get very slow wifi that keeps dropping out – I wonder if this is a cable/QA issue too..
WIRELESS FIX
The Maplin patch fixed my wifi issues too. Thanks helidave.
USB – My 8Gb shows up as having 3.5Gb; however I have loaded it with 6.3Gb of files and it then thinks it has 1Gb left (all the files show and open.
I would just like to know when the rest of us who ordered and pre paid back in March are ever going to see sight of theirs? All attempts to make contact with the suppliers are failing.
I took delivery of my elonex onet+ a couple of weeks ago but it had to go back as it wouldnt remember time when shut down and restarted. I received the replacement machine and it seems to work. (yesterday, 10th October 2008).