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Acer plans new, low-cost laptop

Acer, the world's third largest computer seller, said today that it will offer a new, low-cost laptop targeted primarily at emerging markets. Little is known about the model aside from the fact that will have a 7- or 9-inch display, cost about $470, and ship sometime in the second or...

Tags: ASUS, Acer Inc., Laptop Computer, Everex CloudBook, 8G, Notebooks, Linux, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-02-13

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Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tapWinner if they don't sacrifice qualityThis move would be a winner as long as Apple doesn't sacrifice quality. If they lower prices by making lower quality products, game over. If they just shave off price overhead, that's great. If they...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Netbooks - Too little, too late, and way too expensive

Netbooks - Too little, too late, and way too expensiveany performance benchmarks?may be the 'netbook' has better performance or is less power hungry.Or may be it is just a gimmick for the uninformed!You're missing the point.A $500 MSI Wind isn't competing with a $500 15" Dell - it's competing with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Notebooks, Marketing research, Netbooks, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

Asus Eee Box a thick white slice of cheap computing heaven

Asus Eee Box a thick white slice of cheap computing heavenOne billion = One thousand millionI want that one billion right where that little arrow is!I was already planning on getting an Eee laptop...but now I'm thinking of holding out for this machine. The only thing I'm not too crazy...

Tags: Linux, Games, white slice, thick white slice, Asus Eee Box, cheap computing heaven, computing heaven, ASUS, Eee, Asus Eee

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Via has designs on mini-notebooks

In an effort to capitalize on the surprising growth in mini-notebooks, Via Technologies has released a new reference design based on its C7-M processor and chipset. With all the attention paid to the Intel-AMD rivalry, you may have forgotten about Via, the other company that designs x86...

Tags: Mini-notebook, VIA Technologies Inc., Chipsets, Notebooks, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-05-28

More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0

More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0Possibly the deal isbeing made with Fisher-Price for manufacture and distribution. It certainly looks cheap and cheesy from the picture, with a color scheme reminding me of angry fruit salad.delusions of grandeurThe more I see and hear out of Negroponte's operation the...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Here comes XO 2.0, More Vaporware, Negroponte

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

When all the technology in the world won't help

When all the technology in the world won't helpSmall Town BudgetsThe facts are most small town school systems will continue to teach non-technically. I'm a product of one small public high school two-hours from DC that couldn't afford a Calculus teacher. Solution? They gave us a telephone...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, geometry

Discussion threads 2008-04-10

Open source will not save education

Open source will not save educationOpen sourceHuh?If I need a course on calculus, every g** d*** calculus teacher doesn't need to invent it. This is monkey see, monkey do.Wait a second. Aren't teachers "government employees"?Never mind.I beg to differIt isn't the teachers, it's IT. There's an education IT...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, education, open source, computer, information technology, game

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Open source will not save education

Bob Zemsky right of the University of Pennsylvania had an "ah-ha" moment a few years ago, listening to some people demand grants for open source education. He described it to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The problem isn't supply. It's demand. Teachers won't or...

Tags: Education, Open Source, Productivity, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-08

ThinkGOS using MySpace tie-in for new Linux PC

ThinkGOS using MySpace tie-in for new Linux PCUltimately fit for the ultimate abuseAlas, Linux is ultimately fit for the ultimate abuse. Open source completely in the service of advertising. What's to stop a McDonalds Linux? Or a Hilton Linux?I have often wondered why this kind of horror isn't happening on...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, PC, Linux, Linux server, MySpace, Linux PC

Discussion threads 2008-04-07

ThinkGOS using MySpace tie-in for new Linux PC

ThinkGOS and Everex have found a new gimmick for selling Linux desktops -- a tie-in with MySpace. The MyMiniPC runs a version of GOS Linux and is priced at $499. It's "optimized" with a host of MySpace applications, and brags they're delivered just weeks after the MySpace...

Tags: PC, Linux PC, MySpace, MyMiniPC, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS

Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOSgood ideabut my guess is, they will buy option 3 or 4.The problem is, most people who shop at Wal-Mart for a PC are looking to buy something they are familiar with. I don't think you could convince them...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PC Market, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS

My blogging colleague Dana Blankenhorn reports that ThinkgOS founder David Lui isn't worried by the Wal-Mart snub.  He should be. Here's what Lui had to say: "It sounds like a big story but it's not that big a story. Right off the bat we were telling...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Margin, Linux, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Wal-Mart "snub" no big deal, says ThinkGOS

Reports on the death of the Wal-Mart Linux PC are greatly exaggerated, according to the man selling its operating system. David Liu, founder of ThinkGOS, whose Linux powers the Everex "Linux PC" which Wal-Mart has dropped from its stores, told ZDNet the move was expected, a function of...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Margin, Return Rate, Desktops, Linux, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Wal-Mart ends Linux trials: "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for"

The Wal-Mart chain has now officially ended sales of the Green gPC Linux systems in its stores. "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for," said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien. That pretty much says it all really. A $200 PC with pretty much everything you...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Asus Eee PC 900: The wow starts. . .later?

Asus Eee PC 900: The wow starts. . .later?no Vista and you're surprised?No surprise to me there, it's such a bloated operating system... Very nice suggestion with the lightweight Vista idea! Interesting comment from Microsoft exec too. Is this suggesting they are actually going to slim down and get rid...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Asus Eee, ASUS, Asus Eee PC 900, Microsoft Windows Vista, Asus Eee PC

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

My Singularity wish list

At home and in test/specialty labs in my school I'm running everything from flavors of *buntu and Mandrake Linux to OS X. However, most of my clients are running Windows, whether accessing Server 2003 via thin clients or as standalone XP and Vista machines. Sure, OS X is...

Tags: Singularity OS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Open Source, UNIX, Software, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Cheap laptops to be powered by Intel's Atom chips

The Wall Street Journal featured an article on Intel's latest branding effort, this time focused on tiny, low-powered chips that should find their way into educational sectors soon. The so-called Atom chips (formerly known by their codenames of Diamondville and Silverthorne, "represent the first time Intel has used its...

Tags: Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-03-02

HP's mysterious ultra-mobile PC

Subnotebooks have always been overpriced and under-performing. But suddenly that niche has become a lot more interesting. It began with low-priced laptops such as the Asus Eee PC, which has been a surprising success since its introduction last October. Then, at the opposite extreme, we got the...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Ultramobile PC, VIA Technologies Inc., Site, UMPC Portal, Isaiah, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Processors, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-02-20

MacBook Heir? Lenovo X300 is everywhere this week

Thanks to specs that match up nicely to the MacBook Air--it also fits in an interoffice envelope--Lenovo's still unannounced X300 ultraportable got a lot of press this week culminating in a February 25 cover story in BusinessWeek. Prior to that, The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg...

Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Apple MacBook, Expresscard, Image Processing, Laptop Computer, Lenovo X300, Modems, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-02-15