____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 16:40 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 13:44 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 09:38 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> Coming to a watering hole near you: OLPC's mesh networking
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>| James Cameron works for a computer company in support for enterprise
>>>>>>| Linux customers, and is deeply immersed in electronics, radio and
>>>>>>| software engineering. For the past two years Cameron has devoted his
>>>>>>| diverse technical talents to testing the wireless network component of
>>>>>>| the One Laptop Per Child project.
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1228527977;fp;16;fpid;1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>| If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour
>>>>>>| ago, there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's
>>>>>>| counting?
>>>>>>|
>>>>>>| [...]
>>>>>>|
>>>>>>| No word yet on US pricing, but we're trying to pry it out of them.
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/
>>>>>
>>>>> Umm, E399 is awfully inexpensive for a laptop of such specification...
>>>>> 2008 is going to be a very interesting year in the linux laptop world.
>>>>
>>>> Big companies like H-P and Acer are working on low-cost ones. That might
>>>> be the first time large companies (with all due respect to Asustek) enter
>>>> this market and realise that the overpriced laptop/desktop is a dying
>>>> market that deserves maybe 50% of the market, not much more. It will hit
>>>> them in the pocket, but it's good for the customers.
>>>>
>>>> "Race to the bottom..." (Without Vista)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Asus seem to be appearing in numbers at the moment. I've two Asus mini
>>> machines here now, one doing mythtv and the other one as my desktop.
>>> Frankly, I've more confidence in these than I have in some of the
>>> "major" manufacturers producing something good. Asus have a lot of
>>> reasons to be very linux-compatible, HP, Acer and others are probably
>>> still being pulled from pillar to post.
>>
>> Early talks about the Eee with Windows XP show that the cost would /DOUBLE/.
>> And that's after Microsoft discount. Oh, dear.
>>
>
> But don't forget you'd also need to licence Microsoft Office and some
> kind of Anti-Virus ware which would cost £loads more and the anti-virus
> would slow the machine down something rotten.
Oh, yeah... I didn't even think about it. But the reviewer from ZDNet (he saw
this in CEBIT) actually complained about the weight and size. It's like a...
laptop... just heavy and expensive. No Linux, no favourable scale and price.
--
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