The Hannspree HannsBook SN12E2 Thread!

[turned2black]

Yes, I am very pleasantly surprised at the Hannspree screen. I'm using it right now as I'm travelling the next couple days, because I didn't get my M11x loaded up yet with what I need, and my SSD arrived today.

Anyhow, I want to use my M11x extensively actually before I decide to keep it. I would love to have gaming capability in a compact notebook, but if it suffers from an unusable screen or bad keyboard, or something along those lines, I'll keep my Hannspree.

I'll be sure to post my imperssions sometime in the next week, time permitting with Christmas coming and all.

The mouse and keyboard are clearly WAY better on the M11X and for me, the screen is only slightly better on the Hannspree. I have come to discover that a back-lit keyboard is a must for me now.
Also, the Hannspree is a fingerprint magnet. I got the Lunar Shadow version of the M11X and it attracts very few fingerprints. Really important to me because my kids use the laptop to watch videos in the car and while I push them in the jogging stroller.

BTW, when exactly did computer makers forget that the screen is the most important part of a laptop?

[HTWingNut]

Yeah, I need to use the hannspree and m11x side by side a little more.

I know what you're saying about the screens. It's bad enough that they keep trying to put 1366x768 screens in large laptops, and hard to find larger resolutions. But the screen quality is really going down the tubes too. Like there's no quality control. I'm all for lower cost, but not if it affects something as important as the laptop screen that you look at all the time.

[werewolf]

One thing they've greatly improved in laptop screens, though, and that's dead pixels. Much less common nowadays.

[lvnatic]

Hi guys i just received this notebook today, nice piece of work I can say, but I got no optical drive and no ideea how to install the OS. It came with a fox or something OS which I'm not very familiar with. I received a disk with both widows 7 and linux, but since I got no cd writer I can't insert them. I once made a bootable USB key which I might use now to install windows 7 but I also have no ideea how to enter BIOS as well And does it have an option to read from a bootable USB key? I'm asking cause my HP dv5 doesn't have that feature, it only reads CDs/DVDs.

[HTWingNut]

Go here:
Install Windows 7 From a USB Flash Drive | Unbiased Computer Hardware Reviews - ThinkComputers.org

[lvnatic]

That looks like a great tutorial wingnut, thanks. Only problem is, that I have never installed windows or any kind of other OS before, ever. My current notebook had vista preinstalled, and I only reinstalled the OS once with a friend's help cause I had some virus problems. Can I just make a bootable USB key (I once made one to root an android phone) then enter bios and load it? Do I really need to open cmd and type all those types of commands?

[jeremyshaw]

There are many ways to do it, but the diskpart and bootsect ways seem to be the most effective (like, making the USB key actually bootable...).

[HTWingNut]

Use that guide. You obviously need a PC with a DVD drive or the Windows ISO to load the files onto the USB key. It's pretty straight forward using that guide. It automatically makes it bootable.

[damnated]

Can anyone tell me what kind of RAM is supported? I want to replace the included 2 GB with a 4GB stick (I am aware of the warranty void), but it's a bit confusing with all the conflicting information : at one place I read that the RAM is DDR3 667 MHz, then that it's DDR2 800 MHz or even DDR3 800 MHz.
What type of RAM can I insert then?

[HTWingNut]

download CPU-Z and go to the memory tab, it will tel you what kind of memory you have. Specs say DDR2, but everyone seems to have DDR3.