If you are looking for a 12-inch ultraportable for less than 300 euros, the Airis Slim'Air could interest you.The Airis Slim'Air is configured with an Intel 945GSE+ICH7M chipset, an Atom DiamondVille N270 processor (1.6 GHz), 1 GB DDR2 667 MHz (expandable to 2 GB), a 160 GB SATA hard drive (500 GB max supported ), an Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics part up to 128 MB shared, a 12'' HD screen with a resolution of 1366×768, a 1.3 megapixel webcam with microphone, 2 speakers and Wi-Fi interfaces b/ g, HDMI, Headphone, Ethernet and USB 2.0 (x2).It weighs 1.2 Kg with its lithium battery which gives it an advertised autonomy of about 3 hours under Windows XP Home and measures 302 x 215 x 22 mm.White in color, it has a sleek design.Inside, there is a classic keyboard made up of 86 keys as well as a good-sized touchpad with its buttons positioned on a single bar.The connectors are cleverly integrated, part of which is hidden behind a hatch as can be seen in the photos.The wrist rest is spacious and we notice that the edges of the screen are wide, especially at the top and bottom.The Airis Slim'Air is a hybrid between Netbook and ultraportable.It takes the format and the comfortable screen resolution (compared to the 1024×600 of the Netbooks) of the first but the components inherent in the Netbooks, namely in particular an Atom processor as well as an amount of RAM and disk space limited to 1 GB and 160 GB under Windows XP.The connection is sparse with the presence of only 2 USB ports as well as the notable absence of Wi-Fi n and Bluetooth modules.On the other hand, we are entitled to an HDMI output, rarely present on Netbooks.Finally, it should be noted that the announced autonomy is far from exceptional.Marketed at less than 300 euros there at Cdiscount, the Airis Slim'Air is positioned among the least expensive 12-inch models on the market.It is intended for basic office/Internet and multimedia use.Update: the brand has changed the specifications on its website and now announces dimensions of 302 x 215 x 22 mm instead of 265 x 185 x 25 mm indicated previously.Is this shitty resolution a joke?At the same time on a 12 inch you don't do what you want and given the price they won't bother doing anything else.I have a 12-inch ultraportable with the same resolution and for office automation (I only do that with it) I have no complaints.Personally, I ordered it and I'm waiting for it impatiently, what will be the use of a higher resolution on a 12″ screen, and even on a basic 42″ TV, the almost identical resolution.So I don't see the problem.and frankly at the price I have seen nothing better.only problem I find the lack of USB and autonomy.Otherwise I just hope to check that it is indeed an azerty as specified at cdiscount and not a qwerty as you can see on the photos of the same dealer.I was seduced by its design, its measurements and its weight, I can't see any better for the moment (maybe soon the version with LED screen).I'm just waiting to check the screen size 11.6″ or 12.1″ ???I'll keep you informed@Garcia64m: thank you for giving us your impressions once the laptop has been received and tested 😉My apologies, I had read that it had a resolution of 1024×600, not 1366×768!On the other hand, I'm looking for one in the same size with a better graphics card and an ExpressCard port (34 or 54mm)… and it's a horror to find anything worth drinking.it's sure that in 12″ it's not common the streets good CG generally it's integrated chip (on mine it runs CSS without problems ^^).The goal of these PCs is autonomy outside a big proc or a big CG it hits the battery right away: sI have a doubt about the measurements indicated: 265 x 185 x 25 mm.For me it's difficult to fit a 12 inch in this size.12 inches = 30.48 cm, there is barely 1 cm left around the screen and it is not what you see in the photo….@marlot: these are the dimensions indicated by the brand, we can't invent 😉On the other hand, we try to find out if the dimensions provided are the right ones, which indeed seems unlikely.On many English-speaking sites and in particular on its amazon.co.uk page, there is no question of a GMA 950 but of a GMA X3100.I also ordered it, it will be a surprise when I unpack it.Finally received my slim air Indeed it is indeed a 12″ (I measured 30.6cm or 12.1″) it is indeed an azerty, the design is really top and the usb and HDMI camouflaged it is great the autonomy indicated seems correct, I haven't really been able to try it because it's a gift.Regarding the external dimensions I have not checked.another important thing the touchpad is the best I've seen on a netbook, it is necessarily large.@Garcia64m: thank you for this first feedback 😉Confirmation of the GMA 950?True Ethernet RJ45 without adapter?Easy to change RAM?(kind?)How lucky to have received it, when did you order it to receive it today?The plastics look good?Ordered on 12/11 received on 28/11 as planned by cdiscountI have just received my Slim Air from CDISCOUNT by Colissimo: deadlines respected and traceability at the top.But the delivery man did not have anything signed and the box was tossing about in the Colissimo box. The laptop box was open with a chipped corner and no plastic stick to guarantee closure.The keyboard is plastic, the screen is beautiful with a protective plastic full of fingerprints The boot is very fast but on startup it indicates the installation of a new peripheral which would be a USB RJ45 network adapter.The access cover to the DD and RAM are protected by a small piece of adhesive, so no change of RAM or DD without leaving a trace.The HDMI and USB protection hatch is nice, and the mains adapter is light In short, happiness, it's light BUT: IT WHISTLES TO DEATH!!!It's unbearable, I handled it for 1 hour, I can't stand it, even my mother who is deaf heard it in the next room.It's in a frequency range that gives me headaches, it's the first time I've heard that.It is not a loud and deafening noise but continuous and aggressive.It's not the fan.In short I started trying to put an OSX on a USB key but nada, I stopped.I will see tomorrow.Otherwise a well done ftp site: ftp://ftp.1.airis-france.com/Informatique/NetbookIs it the screen or a part on the motherboard that is whistling?No idea, I'm bad at computers.How do you know where this hissing sound is coming from?I have no clue to blame the DD, but I did not know that a screen could whistle?I hope mine doesn't have this problem.If not, Cdiscount is well known for its minimalist or poorly designed packaging, but their price excuses them.In fact many parts can whistle like the hard disk but the lamps of the screen if they are of very poor quality, or even certain components, I even had a graphics card which whistles.I have a big pb with this netbook…it discharges excessively quickly!!!like not even 2 hours!in addition the battery level alert is impossible to stop!do you have a solution?and battery level you have the same pb?other than that, I have nothing to complain abouthello, I finally received it and I am rather satisfied except on one point: the autonomy, it does not even last 1h15 when you ask it a little, a little encoding and we fall very close to 1h00 of autonomy.The battery is a 2 cell it's really ridiculously small.The screen is really bright but the viewing angles are a real disaster.Mine does not whistle but it blows constantly and you can hear it a little but it is frankly reasonable.The keyboard and very thin and quiet and rather pleasant (keeping in mind the price of the machine).The giant touchpad is really precise and comfortable.The plastics are really of quite good quality and do not look "cheap".The small cover showing the different sockets looks solid, however be careful, the HDMI socket is in fact a mini HDMI and therefore you will have to go through the ebay box to find a cheap adapter.In short, it conforms to what can be expected of it, but clearly make an absolute cross on autonomy.Hello everyone I am looking for a netbook for Christmas.the airis slim air looks very attractive both in terms of price and performance, ergonomics and design.Shame about the battery life!! Not terrible.Does anyone have any info on these \"running noises\" or \"hissing\"?Can you confirm that it is equipped with a Wifi wireless connection?In your opinion, overall it is a good choice or not?Thank you FabianI would like to know what happens if you install "Ubuntu" or "Ubuntu Netbook Remix"?Are there improvements in terms of autonomy thanks to this bone?Hello, it does have a built-in wifi connection.Its operating noise is very bearable.It is a good choice if you are looking for an internet and design office pc at an unbeatable price.THANK YOU FOR THE ANSWERS I'M STILL LOOKING.FOR THE MOMENT THE AIRIS IS STILL IN POLE POSITION.IF PURCHASE I WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED A +Has anyone tried installing Linux on it?too bad… I wanted to know if this improved the battery knowing that it is a system that does not require a lot of components (unless of course if you activate 3D, Theme….)the battery being a two cell one, I don't think that installing Linux changes anything or very little.>ugo: thank you and finally someone answers me!Yes, I had a Packard Bell laptop and the autonomy was 1:45 max and thanks to linux I went to 2:30.That's 45min more!it is not negligible.It's true that 45 minutes is always a win, what scares me is that this battery will inevitably lose a little autonomy after a few charge and discharge cycles.In general, I lose 20 minutes of battery life after a few weeks/months of use on a new laptop.In the case of this pc, we will therefore end up with an autonomy of 45 minutes in intense use… Really a shame.I'm also about to buy a netbook/laptop. After going to the store I find that the 10 inches are really small, the ideal for me would be a 13 inch but with a budget of 350 euros, you have to forget immediately.. That's why my choice was rather oriented towards the airis slim air, it looks really nice, there's just the autonomy that scares me a little.. The manufacturer announces 3 hours of autonomy so if that's the case that's fine with me, but some of you seem to indicate only 1 hour?!Otherwise I would like to know if the power supply is in the same spirit, that is to say: light and compact?Finally in comparison, what do you think of the Acer Aspire One 751h-52B?The manufacturer announces 3h but I assure you that we are at 1h30 and a great maximum 2h00 by playing on the brightness of the screen.The acer you quote has an atom series Z which for me is to flee like the plague because if the ATOM series N (which equips the airis in particular) are not lightning wars but just sufficient for office automation /internet, the Z series is to be forgotten.At the base the Z series was intended for MID type devices.The advantage of the ATOM Z series being their low consumption.It's up to you to see afterwards according to your use according to the disadvantages: autonomy on one side and slight withdrawal in terms of performance on the other.The big positive point of the airis still remaining is the totally unbeatable screen diagonal/design/price ratio.At the level of the charger it is really very light and very small.To compare, it looks a lot like the eeepc 1000H charger, so it's really easy to transport.Otherwise for 350€ you can easily find first price laptops, look on cdiscount they often offer laptops around 350€ but in terms of design and size it will not be at all the same as the airis or the acer.Thank you for your responses and your responsiveness.I think I'll still go on the Airis, I like it and after all I realize that most of the time we use a laptop with the power supply connected..indeed there are first price laptops not very expensive but I really leave in the optics of a small nice and light computer just to surf the net and check my mails, office, etc..For the rest I have a fixed pc that I mounted myself and which turns my faith very very well 😉one last question: we really feel the difference between the screen of the Airis (12 inches) and the other netbooks at 11.6 inches>padrino: yes you can feel the difference because there is a 0.5 inch difference, that is 1.27 more diagonals!so yes we feel themHello everyone, I just received my slim air netbook, it gave me a driver installation CD and on the user guide I am told to insert it into the CD drive °__° there is none not in a netbook!!!What to do ?but when you receive your pc you have no drivers to install, it's only in case you have to reinstall windows.Otherwise to have a cd / dvd player on a netbook buy an external usbI have a problem, I just received this netbook but I can't find the configuration of the webcam anywhere, I can't detect it on windows live, nothing!!!!Generally under XP, the webcam is present in the workstation as a USB devicethanks for the reply, i just looked in my computer and i can't find anything :sThe webcam is not detected or you cannot find the webcam settings?There is no install utility in the start menu?To other owners of this model, what about the operation of the webcam?ba in fact I don't know, it is not detected, I looked in the control panel but there is no mention of the webcam at all, and in the start menu there is nothing eitherIn this case, the simplest in my opinion is to contact Airis France and ask them the question.hello, I have the airis slim air for a few days in short I had several netbook msi, sony, packard bell.it is clear that it is worse than my sony (already sold).I upgraded the memory and tried iatkos 7 nothing works to do a hackintosh (what a pity) if you get there please keep me posted;Happy HolidaysThe webcam was already installed and works perfectly at home.It is present in the workstation in the form of a USB device.Windows Live handles it very well.Maybe reinstalling the driver will fix it?And comparing this pc to a sony pc is a bit irrelevant if I may say so.@killATfornia: have you tried with ideneb 10.5.7???not for the moment but I tried an old ideneb and all the versions which were installed without concern on my msi wind u100.there I will try the snow leopard.I'll let you know @+@killATfornia: ok keep us posted … and if it works tell us how you did (link to a tutorial or send me a private message on my mailbox).well I'm doing tests as soon as I can @+Hello we are progressing, in short I tried a crappy ideneb 7 version. I think the problem comes from elsewhere the hard disk must be in fat32 and from what I have been able to read in ide emulation (the bios of the airis not supporting it).so we will try again in fat32 but not before 2010thank you for trying.But to install ideneb you have to format the hard disk in 'mac os daily extended' and not in fat32.Anyway, thanks for trying.I will fall back on Linux because in all that I would not go on Win*****s.test made in fat32 always the same problem I really think that porting is impossible.I really do not see what differentiates it from my msi wind u100 which passed to it without problemI'm going to try the macOS live dvdok give it a try and keep us posted@killATfornia: give up on mac os test (saw it was illegal to install mac on pc so i turned to linux ubuntu. wifi was not detected so i grabbed the wifi card which was in my eeepc 1000H (whose screen is dead) and I replaced it with that of my airis. Suddenly, I have a very very stable system! Long live Ubuntu!awesome, happy new year everyone.@Sahli I would like to keep abreast of our upgrades but I don't know how we do it anyway even with a live I have a crash suddenly I passed my msi wind u100 (easy) as well as my packard bell easynote bg48-071 (exit the GMA4500).suddenly the airis will be entitled to its GOSHello, I've had this netbook since Christmas, it's pretty good except for autonomy (roughly 1h15 in internet use) and the viewing angles of the screen are quite limited..if not, how do you access the bios?thank youhello sppr key at the top right of the keyboardhave you found a solution concerning the hallucinating noise of the alarm for the battery?I can't find how to turn it off.I don't know the problem, but I imagine in the bios?yes I will look.on the other hand to connect the pc to a TV, did you succeed?I can't, yet I have an HDMI cable but the PC does not recognize the TV.“Have you found a solution concerning the hallucinating noise of the alarm for the battery?I can't find how to turn it off.»I too was thinking in the bios but I couldn't find anything!!Or is it a windows option?If you can't find anything in the bios it can't be windows.So no solution that said I haven't had time to look if I find I'll let you knowHello everyone :).I also bought the Slim'air and I have a big problem.I haven't been able to turn it on for a day, plugged in or not.The last time I used it it turned itself off because I was out of battery.Usually when plugged in the battery light is blue, now it flashes pink.I repeat I can't turn it on anymore.I don't have a guarantee so I would really appreciate your help :/.try a reset (below the power outlet).because sometimes it has to hang in standby….bought at Christmas at cdiscount, it no longer holds a charge a month and a half after it was put into service. I sent it to the factory (airis france) under the manufacturer's warranty. After contacting them on their mailbox ( support@airis-france.com) he gave me a support number for after-sales service. Now I'm waiting to see…!I will keep you informedI ordered an AIRIS SLIM AIR on CDISCOUNT yesterday and I just read all your comments.. I don't know if I should return it or not, it looks nice but with big problems..Please keep me informedHi!I'm about to order an Airis slim but it turns out that the keyboard configuration that I see on "Cdiscount" is in Qwerty when I want an Azerty instead.Does anyone have any direction for me?Thank you in advance and good day!hello to all, I was able to read very interesting comments.but I have a question before going quickly to order it: since I use a lot of power point so I need to make projections via the retro projector, is there a socket to plug it in?Has anyone tried it and does it work?I thank you in advance .Hello everyone I have just received the slim air it is nice only prb I used it barely an hour before it went out I plugged it in but nothing is happening a light comes on … can you tell me helpmarie, did you check the battery?lol .. frankly I do not understand why you buy this laptop whose autonomy is ridiculous.It's used for ?because with so little battery life I don't really understand what this laptop can be used for. 'it doesn't last long.. I'm looking for a small laptop but at least 5 hours otherwise it's useless.Hello, I bought this machine 3 months ago.I'm satisfied with it except for the autonomy which lasts 2 hours max but hey, for 299€ you can't ask too much.Otherwise, I had a battery problem with it, so repair under warranty without worry.The after-sales service provides this level.Concerning Marie's problem, I think the machine should be reset using a small pin at the back right (next to the usb socket).Otherwise, return it to the after-sales service.They are very reactive.For the rest, the machine is nickel for office use, surfing, msn, fb etc.Hi My Airis Slimair worked well for 10 months.After this time, the motherboard burned.Normally taken under warranty.At 13 months, again same problem with the motherboard;this time not covered under warranty (+ one year).Big shit with a brand that offers no commercial gesture.Don't talk to me about Airis anymore!I broke my dinstall cd and my slim crashed can you help me fb:selim bamoiYour email address will not be published.Mandatory fields are marked with *Save my name, email and site in the browser for my next comment.Antispam check (expected response in digits) * 5 + = 13Notify me of new comments by emailGood laptop dealsI am looking for a laptopNeed help choosing a computer?How to choose your laptopApple MacBook Pro 14 / MacBook Pro 16 M1 Pro and M1 Max, which one to choose?Every day, LaptopSpirit offers you the latest laptop PC releases, a complete tour of the best promotions, but also laptop computer tests and several targeted buying guides.All this to allow you to choose the laptop that suits you, at the best price.And if you are lost, do not hesitate, we are here to help you.Which gaming laptop to chooseA cheap laptop?PC Gamer: Which Asus Zephyrus to choose?Create a free blog