Your $100 desktop PC
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| YOU’VE HEARD OF UMPC, MID, OLPC, DTR, subnotebooks, slim line PCs, ITX, SFF
| and basically enough variants on the age-old beige box to drown a fish. Well,
| if you haven’t heard already, La Intella has come up with yet another name
| for another format (or package): a Nettop. Half desktop, half UMPC – the
| Nettop class PCs pack an Atom system on a chip with components for basic
| computing requirements and add up to a smallish $100 thru $299 price tag. You
| could call this ingenious if VIA hadn’t been doing this for aeons (give or
| take a year).
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/18/100-desktop-pc
Microsoft's Windows Vista is in so much trouble that Microsoft is reportedly
now extending Windows Mobile (disasterous and wasteful unit for Microsoft) to
run on larger devices. Too little, too late?
Related:
Intel plots $100 "NetTop" market with Diamondville
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| The machines will run on Linux or Windows, and Intel projects 60 million
| of 'em will be sold a year by 2011. Those crazy, cash-addled dreamers.
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/12/intel-plots-100-nettop-market-with-diamondville/
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
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.
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| 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.
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| [...]
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| 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.”
|
| [...]
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| 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
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