Picking the perfect PC for your pocket
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| OLPC's XO-1....
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| It's clever stuff - you're never going to run Windows on one, but with its
| special cut-down version of Fedora Linux and radical, largely text-free Sugar
| GUI, it's a capable little computer. For a laptop, it's very robust -
| shrouded in rubber, splash-proof and with no moving parts.
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| Palm Foleo
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| First was Palm's Foleo. Like the netBook, it runs an ARM chip - a "Bulverde"
| XScale at somewhere around 300-600MHz.
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| [Classmate...]
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| It weighs 1.4kg and battery life is only about four hours. It's not much of a
| notebook, but although it will also be offered with Mandriva Linux,
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| [...]
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| Asus Eee...
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| The benefits of Linux on such a PC are twofold: firstly, done right, it can
| be fast, capable and responsive even on such a low spec, and secondly, unlike
| something obscure like EPOC, with Linux you can add extra applications
| readily, and you get luxuries like Flash and Java and media playback and so
| on.
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| [...]
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| But all the low-power x86 chips around today are tempting: with Linux
| on x86, you get Flash and Adobe Reader and official Sun Java and so on,
| which can be harder work to find on a RISC processor.
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