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[News] Norhtec's $300 GNU/Linux Laptop

Norhtec to Release Yet Another Sub-$300 Linux UMPC

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| According to Barnes, the Gecko laptop will be announced soon, and will hit 
| the market at a sub-$300 price tag, in order to compete with the other 
| 7-inchers of its kin.   
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Norhtec-to-Release-Yet-Another-Sub-300-Linux-UMPC-80456.shtml


Related:

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


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


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


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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