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Desperate demand for the Elonex webbook
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| Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008
| From: alan c
| To: British Ubuntu Talk
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| Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt
| Cutters!
|
| In Bracknell, the Carphone Warehouse Webbook (Elonex) with preinstalled
| Ubuntu which is included in one of CPW’s deals is in such extraordinary
| demand that the recent display item in CPW Bracknell Princess Square
| shopping mall was stolen last week by desperate people using *bolt
| cutters*!
|
| The many larger laptops with Vista installed were left untouched. Sad eh?
| Even thieves don’t want Vista.
|
| The Webbook was secured using a kensington similar stranded wire lock, so
| I guess the culprits even had some angle grinding to do later, to remove
| the lock itself.
|
| The desperate act took place in a normal shopping day in broad daylight,
| and the miscreants were seen making off at speed, unencumbered by
| antivirus or other unnecessary items which might have slowed them down!
|
| Like most shopping malls, there is security video in operation, I trust
| that it will be put to good use.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/26/desperate-demand-for-the-elonex-webbook/
Recent:
Elonex One Sighted
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| So now there's a Web site with some details.
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| Also worth taking a look at is this BBC video.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/03/elonex-one-sighted.html
Elonex ONE Laptop Review by OLPC News
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| I was in Birmingham today for my nephew's first birthday, just after lunch I
| nipped out to visit the Education Show which was running on the other side of
| town in the National Exhibition Centre.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/competition/elonex_one_laptop_review.html
The £99 laptop: how can it be so cheap?
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| A new laptop computer for just £99 sounds like the kind of offer found in a
| spam e-mail or on a dodgy auction website. But the British company Elonex is
| launching the country’s first sub £100 computer later this month and hopes to
| be making 200,000 of them by the summer. It will be aimed at schoolchildren
| and teenagers, and looks set to throw the market for budget laptops wide
| open.
|
| Called the One, it can be used as a traditional notebook computer or, with
| the screen detached from the keyboard, as a portable “tablet” – albeit
| without the planned touchscreen that Elonex had to abandon to hit its £99
| price tag. Wi-fi technology lets users access the internet or swap music (and
| homework) files between computers wirelessly.
|
| [...]
|
| The secret is simple: open-source software. The One runs on Linux, which is a
| rival to Windows but completely free to use. Open-source software can be
| freely swapped or modified by anyone who wants it. In the past such operating
| systems (there are several of them) have been outgunned by the more
| sophisticated Windows programs. However, an open-source operating system is
| ideal for low-cost devices as it performs well on less powerful, cheaper
| hardware.
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article3374812.ece
Related:
How will Linux win the OS wars? From the bottom up!
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| So therefore, best way to win the war of the operating systems is not to go
| after the high end market.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=352
Low-cost laptops make PC makers mull margins
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| “Computers have been an exception. If you look at consumer electronics, a DVD
| player was about $800 10 years ago – now they sell for $20,” she says. “The
| [computer] industry has been able to keep the price flat by focusing on
| gazillion-gigahertz machines running really bloated software and that’s
| worked for years since the IBM PC revolution.”
|
| [...]
|
| OLPC found a strong uptake for a “give one, get one” campaign it launched in
| North America in November. It discovered consumers were willing to pay $400
| for an XO – the price meant another XO would be given free to a
| developing-world child. It is now launching OLPC America to extend the cheap
| laptop concept for children in the US.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cfba14f4-cf64-11dc-854a-0000779fd2ac.html
Linux Has Won, Windows is Gone
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| Sorry Windows you have already lost this battle. There is no way to reverse
| this and no amount of incentives that Microsoft can offer to convince people
| and governments that they will be safe if they switch back to Windows. Lets
| be honest here for a moment. Would your trust America's nuclear technologies
| to be run on Windows? What happens when it bluescreens, yeah you get my point
| don't you?
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http://linuxhow2.com/News/Linux_Has_Won_Windows_is_Gone.html
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