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2008-09-11

The HiVision miniNote $98 Linux Laptop

The Chinese firm HiVision has managed to create Linux-based laptop that will sell for $98.00

Clipped from: Buy a laptop for US$98 - Notebooks - Crave - CNET Asia

Buy a laptop for US$98

Move aside OLPCs and Intel Classmate PCs, there is a new cheapo notebook in town. For a mere US$98, Chinese manufacturer HiVision is offering a Linux-based laptop, the NB0700, which makes even Netbook buyers look like big spenders.

Clipped from: techvideoblog.com » Blog Archive » $98 Linux Laptop - The HiVision miniNote

$98 Linux Laptop - The HiVision miniNote
HiVision makes the worlds cheapest Linux laptop at $98 using a new cheaper MIPS based processor (perhaps the Longsoon or the Ingenic), WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, has 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out, voice-chat, skype, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support and Abiword for word processing. Automatic and secure online software updates. Their current model is running a smooth and pretty snappy Linux user interface.

Clipped from: HiVision prepares to launch cheap netbooks

NB0700 Specs

CPU: MiPS 400MHz
Display: 7″, 800×480 resolution
Ram: 64MB or 128MB
Storage: 1GB flash nand
Networking: Wifi, ethernet
Memory card reader: SD/SDHC
Three USB ports
Price: $98
Availability: October 2008

Clipped from: Skytone Alpha-400 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Skytone Alpha-400
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Skytone Alpha-400 is a Subnotebook or Netbook with a 7" 800x600 LCD screen. Its measurements are 8.25" long x 5.5" wide x 1.25" deep and it weighs 0.72 kg (1.8 lbs). It is made in China by Skytone, and uses a Chinese Ingenic "Xburst" 400 MHz MIPSII-compatible single core 32-bit System-on-a-chip (SoC) ^[1] with 128MB of DDR2 memory, and a 1GB solid state drive.

A version of it called the Hivision Mininote is the first Netbook that was announced would be sold to the general public for below $100. ^[2]^[3]

2008-01-23

Apple Air versus Asus Eee: A Comparison

clipped from www.devindra.org

Macbook Air
Asus Eee
Size
(H x W x D)
0.16” - 0.76” x 12.8” x 8.94” 1.38″ x 8.82″ x 6.5″
Weight 3lbs 2lbs
Display 13.3″ LED-backlit LCD 7″ LED-backlit LCD
CPU 1.6-1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo 900Mhz Celeron Mobile
RAM 2GB 512MB
Hard Drive 80GB 1.8″ (or 64GB solid state flash) 2-4GB solid state flash
OS Mac OSX Leopard Custom Linux Distro
Price $1799 $300-$400

After comparing the Macbook Air and the Asus Eee, it’s clear that Apple’s new notebook is not that great of a value compared to Asus’s surprise hit. The Air wins in overall sex appeal, raw horsepower, and a bigger screen. At the same time, the Eee is simply a more practical machine for those who only need a secondary machine to word process and browse the internet on the go.

2008-01-16

Lenovo releases Linux Thinkpads

clipped from www.desktoplinux.com

Lenovo finally delivers SUSE Linux-based ThinkPads

PC vendor Lenovo has promised ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 for some time now. Lenovo will deliver the goods the week of Jan. 14.

Lenovo will release pre-installed SLED 10 on its Intel Centrino processor-powered ThinkPad T61 and R61 14-inch-wide notebooks. In February, Lenovo's pre-integrated Novell Linux offering will expand to include some Penryn-based ThinkPads.

Lenovo is finally joining Dell as one of the first top-tier PC vendors to offer pre-installed Linux desktops to its customers. In the meantime, other lesser-known vendors, such as Asustek Computer and Everex, are also delivering inexpensive computers with pre-installed Linux. Pre-installed Linux desktop systems are still far from being as easy to find as Windows-equipped systems, but they are out there now and are relatively easy to find and buy.

2007-12-25

Laptops of the Future

clipped from www.laptopsarena.com

Top 10 Coolest Laptop Concepts

The Anna Lopez’s concept, a notebook

The future HP notebooks

A futuristic 2-displays system

Fujitsu DJ laptop,

The Flexi PDA concept

The green concept here is called Gelfrog

Fujitsu Fab PC laptop concept that has an electronic paper display

The Intel Mobile Metro notebook

Compenion prototype

The Vaio Zoom Holographic Concept notebook deserves the first position in top 10 coolest laptop concepts of all times.

We think that this concept is showing us how future laptops would look like, while the designer wanted to create something that satisfies the requests of people for a perfect designed notebook.
Such a system would be extremely thin, the lightest, and would look exactly like in these pictures.

Eno Setiawan designed it after he gathered the latest statistics about how people would want their laptop to look like.

via: kofrad's web site reviews and blog

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