____/ 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
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>>| 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.
>> `----
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>> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1228527977;fp;16;fpid;1
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>> Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC
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>>| 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.
>> `----
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>> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/
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> 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)
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