£99 Linux based laptop. No mention of specs yet, other than it is solid state disk, wireless, Linux, etc.
Launches on 28th Feb at Education Show at NEC, heavily targeted towards educational use. (Imagine that, a whole generation of students who know that "word processor" doesn't have to mean "word"...)
On 26/02/2008, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
£99 Linux based laptop. No mention of specs yet, other than it is solid state disk, wireless, Linux, etc.
Neat! Thanks for letting us know about this.
Can it run Slackware? :)
-Srdj
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:22:08PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Neat! Thanks for letting us know about this.
Sounds like it was made for slackware given the hardware specs date from the late 90's so it'd make sense to have a distro stuck in them on it ;)
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/20/elonex-100-laptop-spe...
Adam
Adam Bower wrote:
Sounds like it was made for slackware given the hardware specs date from the late 90's so it'd make sense to have a distro stuck in them on it ;)
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/20/elonex-100-laptop-spe...
The PC I had at the end of the 90s fell well short of that spec, but you're right that it's not amazing. But for £100, it's better than my calculator :-)
What I like is the price point that's being set. If we can get something functional for £100 and something pretty got for £200-£250 (Eee), then the cost of an MS operating system becomes pretty noticeable (not just the £20 high volume OEM cost, but the hardware requirements to run it).
We just need to avoid Linux getting a reputation for being a low-end O/S.
Looks nice for the price. DDR2 and a 300MHz processor sounds like an odd but nicely cheap combination, my old Dell laptop recently died and had a similar spec and was more then adequate for light browsing, word processing but it wasn't cable of doing much under KDE or Gnome with so little RAM i wonder what window manager they will be using. If the storage and ram are upgradeable ill be buying one. I'm guessing there using a non x86 processor maybe an ARM of some sort?
Dennis
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:22:08PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Neat! Thanks for letting us know about this.
Sounds like it was made for slackware given the hardware specs date from the late 90's so it'd make sense to have a distro stuck in them on it ;)
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/20/elonex-100-laptop-spe...
Adam
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