Report: Dell to release a low-cost minilaptop
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| You didn't expect Dell to sit idly by while Asus, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard
| went flitting about town with their trendy low-cost, low-power minilaptops,
| did you? Paris Hilton isn't the only celebrity to tote a Chihuahua, after
| all. According to Taiwanese manufacturer Compal Electronics, Dell will soon
| enter the minilaptop fray.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9915094-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Dell /already/ sells Linux (unlike many others who began selling Linux laptops,
with Acer soon to join), so it's reasonable to expect these Dell units to run
Linux too.
Yesterday:
Spanish low-cost notebook including OpenOffice.org
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| According to this Spanish article, yet another low-cost notebook including a
| Fedora-based Linux distro as well as OpenOffice.org will be sold for about
| 300 Euro.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/spanish_low_cost_notebook_including
Dutch UMPC runs Ubuntu Linux
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| Dutch integrator Van Der Led (VDL) Designs has announced a clone of the Asus
| Eee PC ultra-mini PC (UMPC) notebook. The WiFi-enabled "Jisus" UMPC is
| equipped with a Chinese-made 1GHz Loongson CPU, has an 8.9-inch display, and
| runs Ubuntu Linux.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3257992292.html
PC Makers Race to Market With Low-Cost 'Netbooks'
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| The University of Chicago undergraduate recently bought an Eee PC, a low-end
| laptop from Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. that starts at $299. The device
| has a small screen, a cramped keyboard, no hard drive and was introduced with
| Linux rather than Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system -- and Asustek
| can't make enough of them.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120761749843296893.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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