Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables
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| Over the past six months or so, Asus, Everex, and HP have managed to bring
| low-cost ultraportable notebooks to market. But dozens of other computer
| makers have promised to bring out their own mini-notebooks. Some will run
| Linux, while others will be preloaded with Windows XP or Vista. Some will
| have flash memory, while others will have hard drives. But every one will be
| smaller, lighter, and cheaper than most existing laptop computers. Here's a
| roundup of some of the computers that have been announced or are already
| available.
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http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/over-past-six-months-or-so-asus-everex_24.html
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Low-Cost Laptop Cheat Sheet
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| Here at LAPTOP we’ve had a hard time keeping the all the potential low-cost
| laptops or Eee PC “killers” straight. It’s kind of like having to learn about
| the presidential candidates—you’re not really sure which one is going to
| actually make it, so why bother learning about them in the first place? Maybe
| a bit farfetched, but we have created a cheat sheet below on all low-cost
| laptops expected to hit the market.
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http://blog.laptopmag.com/low-cost-laptop-cheat-sheet
Basic and Cheap PCs
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| Several new computers unveiled in recent months have something in common
| besides their budget-minded price tag: All come preloaded with the Linux
| operating system instead of Microsoft's Windows.
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http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/04/cheap_pcs.html
Norhtec to Release Yet Another Sub-$300 Linux UMPC
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| According to Barnes, the Gecko laptop will be announced soon, and will hit
| the market at a sub-$300 price tag, in order to compete with the other
| 7-inchers of its kin.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Norhtec-to-Release-Yet-Another-Sub-300-Linux-UMPC-80456.shtml
The £99 laptop: how can it be so cheap?
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| A new laptop computer for just £99 sounds like the kind of offer found in a
| spam e-mail or on a dodgy auction website. But the British company Elonex is
| launching the country’s first sub £100 computer later this month and hopes to
| be making 200,000 of them by the summer. It will be aimed at schoolchildren
| and teenagers, and looks set to throw the market for budget laptops wide
| open.
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| Called the One, it can be used as a traditional notebook computer or, with
| the screen detached from the keyboard, as a portable “tablet” – albeit
| without the planned touchscreen that Elonex had to abandon to hit its £99
| price tag. Wi-fi technology lets users access the internet or swap music (and
| homework) files between computers wirelessly.
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| [...]
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| The secret is simple: open-source software. The One runs on Linux, which is a
| rival to Windows but completely free to use. Open-source software can be
| freely swapped or modified by anyone who wants it. In the past such operating
| systems (there are several of them) have been outgunned by the more
| sophisticated Windows programs. However, an open-source operating system is
| ideal for low-cost devices as it performs well on less powerful, cheaper
| hardware.
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article3374812.ece
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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| [...]
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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
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
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
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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