Odds and ends
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| My forecast: netbooks are going to get even hotter in 2009
| as buyers turn to affordable PCs with decent performance
| during an economic downturn. An alliance to watch: Acer and
| Canonical. As good as its netbooks are, Acer could benefit
| from Ubuntu, one of the most popular and user-friendly
| Linux distributions. Canonical, Ubuntu’s sponsor, stands to
| gain from a sharp rise in its installed base that a
| bundling deal with Acer would bring. What are these two
| waiting for?
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business5_dec30_2008
£185.76 Dell Inspiron Mini 9 N270 Ubuntu Netbook
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| Stay connected to your world virtually wherever you go.
| Inspiron Mini 9's small, virtually weightless design lets
| you travel light while keeping up with your blog, video
| chat, instant messenger and email so that you never lose
| touch with your family and friends.
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http://www.itproportal.com/articles/2008/12/29/18576-dell-inspiron-mini-9-n270-ubuntu-netbook/
Time for a Tablet
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| The term is vaguely defined, but the best way to spot a
| netbook is to peek at the specs: Today's bigger laptops run
| on Intel's speedy Core 2 Duo processor, while netbooks use
| a smaller, less powerful, and cheaper Intel chip, the Atom.
| Netbooks also run older or more lightweight operating
| systems—generally Windows XP or some flavor of Linux.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2207557/
Recent:
$98 Linux Laptop - The HiVision miniNote
http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/98-linux-laptop-the-hivision-mininote/
$75 SODIMM-sized SBC runs Linux
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8998216179.html
Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi
http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi
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