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'World's Cheapest Laptop' Now Available
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| A company is now selling what it calls the "world's cheapest laptop," which
| at US$130, is not a bad deal if you can bear some hardware limitations.
|
| The Impulse NPX-9000 laptop has a 7-inch screen and comes with the Linux OS.
| It has a 400MHz processor, 128M bytes of RAM, 1G byte of flash storage and an
| optional wireless networking dongle. It includes office productivity
| software, a Web browser and multimedia software.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148992/worlds_cheapest_laptop_now_available.html
http://tinyurl.com/5sdedy
Recent:
Say hello to the webbook
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| The really cool thing about the webbook is the software. The webbok comes
| pre-loaded with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and some new software written especially for
| this application that delivers broadband connectivity over 3G Mobile
| networks.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/07/24/say-hello/
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Related:
Jisus Laptop: 8.9" Low-cost Laptop For 300EUR; Watch Cool Pictures & a Video
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| Yes, as you see the market of low-cost laptops is very hot. Today we are
| learning about a new low-cost laptop from Netherlands.
|
| [...]
|
| It runs on Ubuntu Linux
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http://laptopcom.blogspot.com/2008/04/jisus-laptop-89-low-cost-laptop-for.html
Dutch UMPC runs Ubuntu Linux
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| Dutch integrator Van Der Led (VDL) Designs has announced a clone of the Asus
| Eee PC ultra-mini PC (UMPC) notebook. The WiFi-enabled "Jisus" UMPC is
| equipped with a Chinese-made 1GHz Loongson CPU, has an 8.9-inch display, and
| runs Ubuntu Linux.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3257992292.html
A tiny revolution
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| It's smaller then a textbook and cheaper than many software packages. George
| Cole visits two schools using the first in a new breed of mini laptops
|
| [...]
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| These mini laptops have caused a stir in the education sector, not least
| because they offer many features found on full-sized laptops, including
| built-in wireless networking. Their low cost (£169) is partly down to their
| use of open source software like the Linux operating system and free software
| packages such as Open Office.
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/link/story/0,,2266333,00.html
Mini-laptop sweeps through schools
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| RM, the company supplying the Minibook computer to schools, sold out its
| first order of 6,000 within weeks, and is now projecting school sales of
| 30,000 by the end of the year. They are attracting the attention of IT
| teachers, and with them a multimillion-pound market in school computing so
| far dominated by Microsoft, the Goliath to RM's David.
|
| [...]
|
| Last year the government spent £801m on IT equipment for schools. Microsoft
| has the lion's share of the market, but the Minibooks circumvent this iron
| grip by using Linux open source software instead of Microsoft Windows Vista.
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2255522,00.html
Mini-laptop sweeps through schools
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| RM, the company supplying the Minibook computer to schools, sold out its
| first order of 6,000 within weeks, and is now projecting school sales of
| 30,000 by the end of the year. They are attracting the attention of IT
| teachers, and with them a multimillion-pound market in school computing so
| far dominated by Microsoft, the Goliath to RM's David.
|
| [...]
|
| Last year the government spent £801m on IT equipment for schools. Microsoft
| has the lion's share of the market, but the Minibooks circumvent this iron
| grip by using Linux open source software instead of Microsoft Windows Vista.
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2255522,00.html
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
|
| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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