EeePC and the Rise of the CLUMPC (Cheap Linux Ultramobile PC)
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| Hard to believe it but the Asus EeePC has only been out in America for 2
| months today. Why is this hard to believe? Because of the onslaught of
| also-ran Linux-based UMPCs, including but not limited to the OLPC, Classmate,
| Cloudbook, and now the Noahbook. What we are seeing here is the start of
| something, a new category of PCs, the CLUMPC, or Cheap Linux Ultramobile
| Personal Computer.
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http://eeepc.tumblr.com/post/22802474
One Laptop Per Geek - A Review in Many Parts
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| My 4 year-old is the original target market for the purchase, and I know from
| experience as the computer geek in the family, (and most of the extended
| family - sigh), that I would be the primary fount of knowledge for the users
| of our OLPC. One of the sections of this review will be about how to find out
| more about the laptop and interface.
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http://opsamericas.com/?p=522
Related:
Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs
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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs
| in users' hands.
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| [...]
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| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to.
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice
| of the desktop market pie.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html
A sleek introduction of $299 laptops
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| Today, Asus Technology will unveil a $299 version of the Eee PC, a 2-pound
| laptop that stores data on flash memory, not a hard drive, and runs Linux,
| the open-source operating system, rather than Windows or the Mac OS.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/14/BU4QTSTAN.DTL
'Cloudbook' UMPC to Run Googleish Linux
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| Everex has confirmed plans to ship a UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) with a 7-inch
| screen, similar to competitor Asus' EEE PC. A source close to the company
| revealed that the device—codenamed "Cloudbook"—will ship with the Google
| Apps-oriented "gOS" Linux distribution early next year.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2230808,00.asp
Cheap Laptops Bad for Vista, Good for Linux
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| The good news for everyone is that you can get a good, solid laptop for under
| a grand these days. The bad news for Vista users is that many of those
| laptops, even though they're sold with Vista, have nothing like enough
| resources to run Vista decently.
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| [...]
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| Total additional cost? About a buck for the burnable DVD for the Linux
| distribution. It's not a matter of "if," it's a matter of when we're going to
| see more Linux-powered laptops.
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| Do the math. Vista doesn't work for today's laptop market. XP and Linux do.
| It's really that simple.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2222308,00.asp
One Laptop Per Child - Production Delays Caused By Microsoft, Intel?
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| I sincerely hope that no matter what the people who are running the
| OLPC project decide, that their project will continue and not get
| bogged down in a play of corporate greed and ambitions.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2007/04/28/one-laptop-per-child-production-delays-caused-by-microsoft-intel/
Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself"
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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733
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