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Netbooks: Cheap young cannibals of laptop PCs
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| PC makers are taking a gamble that the popularity of cheap, portable
| mini-laptops in an economic downturn will offset any business stolen from
| their traditional laptop business.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE49F1T720081016
Netbook explosion takes Acer to number 1, Asus to number 4 in EMEA
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| Netbook sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) have literally
| exploded in the third quarter of 2008, making Acer the top ranking PC vendor
| for the first time ever, while propelling Asus up the ladder into fourth
| place. IDC figures show that growth in notebooks overall has been strong, but
| the take-up of netbooks has been staggering.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21221/53/
Happy Birthday Eee PC!
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| One year ago ASUS began selling a notebook that would change the laptop
| industry. It was October 16, 2007 that the ASUS Eee PC 701 went on sale in
| Taiwan (don’t believe us, Wikipedia says so!), ten days later LAPTOP Magazine
| was one of the first media outlets to review the sub-notebook. Today, we
| threw that little one-year-old (and now outdated) notebook its first birthday
| party, with cake and hats and even noise makers (pictures and video of the
| first-ever laptop birthday party below).
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http://blog.laptopmag.com/happy-birthday-eee-pc
Recent:
Intel CEO: Linux to dominate MIDs
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| However, the Linux netbook genre received a boost this week when Dell started
| running its first major advertisements about a Linux-based system. According
| to a story from The VAR Guy, Dell started running multi-page newspaper ads
| specifically hawking its first Linux netbook, the Dell Inspiron Mini 9
| (pictured).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9783019417.html?kc=rss
Related:
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
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
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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