HP preps sexy new ‘Eee PC killer'
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| Now HP is coming to the party, and it's dressed to steal all the attention
| away from Asus. There's no doubt that the Compaq 2133 (which distinctly needs
| a catchy consumer-friendly brand name rather than Yet Another Model Number)
| will be aimed at a more professional slice of the consumer and perhaps even
| business market when it lands in the US sometime in April.
|
| [...]
|
| Which will it be? This is where things get interesting, because HP's advance
| spec sheet notes the Compaq 2133 will be offered with a choice of Windows
| Vista and Linux. There's no word on which flavour of the Penguin OS gets the
| gong, but on its business PC line HP already supports Asianux, Debian,
| Mandriva, Novell SUSE and Red Hat.
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http://apcmag.com/8342/hp_preps_eee_pc_killer
The Eee PC continues to receive good new reviews:
Asus Eee PC 4G
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| The Asus Eee PC is available for a retail price of Rs 18,000, and that's
| well-priced for sure. That much cash will fetch you an upper-mid segment
| smartphone; the Eee PC can do a lot more. It's easier and more comfortable to
| type on its keyboard than on QWERTY-pad cell phones. The target audience
| would include pretty much anyone -- right from school-kids to business
| professionals.
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http://www.techtree.com/India/Reviews/Asus_Eee_PC_4G/551-87276-616-7.html
Flash of Inspiration
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| One of the many flashes of insight that the Asus Eee PC has provided me with
| is that DVDs are dead. The Eee PC has no CD/DVD drive, but lets you plug in
| both USB drives and flash memory of suitably capacious volumes: who needs
| spinning bits of plastic when you can have totally poised transistors doing
| the work?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/03/flash-of-inspiration.html
Unboxing the Asus Eee PC and First Impressions
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| This is a fantastic laptop, and I’ve got really big plans for using it in a
| somewhat unconventional manner. I’ll probably write a little bit more about
| it later on, but this is all for now. Oh…. and by the way, I made up the last
| quote.
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http://www.fsckin.com/2008/03/04/unboxing-the-asus-eee-pc-and-first-impressions/
Recent:
HP's Linux sub-notebook spied on web
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/19/hp_compaq_2133_spied/
HP's new OmniBook?
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| Of course, the Compaq 2133 will be 15 years better than the OmniBook, with
| USB support, Wi-Fi, built-in webcam and other goodies. Sadly, the OS probably
| won't execute in ROM and the mouse probably won't pop out. Sadder still is
| that the Compaq 2133 is rumored to come with either Windows Vista or Linux,
| not Windows XP. Windows Vista is only slightly better than the OmniBook's
| Windows 3.1. Hopefully HP will offer a good flavor of Linux.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/hps_new_omnibook
Related:
The Penguin comes in from the cold
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| In fact, three months ago, Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat launched a
| pre-installed Linux desktop, the HP Compaq dx2250, in Australia.
|
| Aimed at small to medium businesses, the dx2250 comes pre-loaded with the Red
| Hat Enterprise Linux 5 desktop operating system.
|
| The desktop comes in myriad forms including AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core, AMD
| Athlon 64 and AMD Sempron processors, and prices start at $600.
|
| The machine is sold through HP's reseller network and Red Hat offers
| technical support.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22822516-24169,00.html
HP To Expand Effort On Linux PCs
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| Hewlett-Packard, the world's Number 1 PC maker, will try selling pre-loaded
| Linux on PCs in several countries as it expands a test program -- evaluating
| a market that some competitors have already entered -- as it moves its
| personal computer business into a new generation of form factors and
| functionality.
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http://www.crn.com/software/201807523
HP offers peek at next-gen gadgets
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| HP has unveiled some of the gadgets it is working on in its worldwide
| laboratories.
|
| [...]
|
| The e-book attracted most interest from delegates at the HP Mobility
| Summit in Shanghai. It uses touch sensitive strips on the base of
| the rectangular unit to select books and turn pages, runs a Linux
| OS and has a USB port to install new titles.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2189600/hp-plans-touchscreen-ebook
Q&A: HP exec says Linux Foundation wants to push OS toward common ground
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| You didn't hear much about it in North America, but over the last six
| months or so, I'm personally hearing a lot more interest in Linux on the
| desktop. It's definitely a focus for the foundation. I think it's an area
| that is kind of a "watch this space" for the next couple [of] years.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9016294&source=rss_news10
http://tinyurl.com/ysjlye
Orbiting Debian: Interview with Bdale Garbee
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| It's a really exciting time to be in this industry. With the kinds
| of phenomenal growth rates we're seeing, Linux and the whole of open
| source is one of the brighter stars in the IT sky right now.
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http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/108
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP
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| In fiscal 2006, $25 million in hardware sales in EMEA (Europe,
| Middle East and Africa) were directly related to HP's Debian
| support.
|
| "I was pretty shocked when I found out about this," Jeffrey
| Wade, worldwide marketing manager of open source and Linux at
| HP, told internetnews.com.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3661481
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP
,----[ Quote ]
| In fiscal 2006, $25 million in hardware sales in EMEA (Europe,
| Middle East and Africa) were directly related to HP's Debian
| support.
|
| "I was pretty shocked when I found out about this," Jeffrey
| Wade, worldwide marketing manager of open source and Linux at
| HP, told internetnews.com.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3661481
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux
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| What the press statement didn't mention is that Aruba mobility
| controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has
| aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows as part of
| its "Get the Facts" marketing campaign.
|
| [...]
|
| Pandey's appraisal of Aruba's technology is in stark contrast to
| Microsoft's "Get the Facts" rhetoric which places Windows as a more secure,
| and higher-performing choice over Linux.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;754084996;fp;2;fpid;1
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