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Hardware Review: Elonex Webbook with Ubuntu 8.04
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| Overall I really like this little machine and in a way it's opened my eyes as
| to why the world seems to be going potty for netbooks. I was worried that it
| wouldn't be fast enough or wouldn't be big enough but it works well. So
| you're not going to be rendering any large Blender projects on it or running
| lots of virtual machines but for web surfing, email, multimedia and word
| processing this can do the job.
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http://adventuresinopensource.blogspot.com/2008/09/hardware-review-elonex-webbook-with.html
Recent:
Ubuntu & webbook now available online at CPW
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| Good news!
|
| When we first announced the Elonex webbook, you could only get the Ubuntu
| version by visiting one of Carphone Warehouse’s bricks-and-mortar shops.
| Online they only had the old XP version listed.
|
| Today that has changed. Now you can order a webbook, with Ubuntu
| pre-installed without having to go out at all!
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/08/ubuntu-webbook-now-available-online-at-cpw/
Elonex Webbook notebook review
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| With consumers snapping up netbooks faster than companies can make them, what
| makes Elonex think it has the solution with the Webbook? We took a closer
| look to find out.
|
| Available from Carphone Warehouse the Elonex Webbook offers a 10.2-inch
| screen, 1.6GHz VIA C7-M processor, comes with an almost full-sized keyboard
| and measures 252 x 183 x 31.8mm.
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http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/reviews/review.phtml/3346/4370/elonex-webbook-notebook-netbook-review.phtml
http://tinyurl.com/6fok5k
Say hello to the webbook
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| The really cool thing about the webbook is the software. The webbok comes
| pre-loaded with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and some new software written especially for
| this application that delivers broadband connectivity over 3G Mobile
| networks.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/07/24/say-hello/
Desperate demand for the Elonex webbook
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| Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008
| From: alan c
| To: British Ubuntu Talk
|
| Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt
| Cutters!
|
| In Bracknell, the Carphone Warehouse Webbook (Elonex) with preinstalled
| Ubuntu which is included in one of CPW’s deals is in such extraordinary
| demand that the recent display item in CPW Bracknell Princess Square
| shopping mall was stolen last week by desperate people using *bolt
| cutters*!
|
| The many larger laptops with Vista installed were left untouched. Sad eh?
| Even thieves don’t want Vista.
|
| The Webbook was secured using a kensington similar stranded wire lock, so
| I guess the culprits even had some angle grinding to do later, to remove
| the lock itself.
|
| The desperate act took place in a normal shopping day in broad daylight,
| and the miscreants were seen making off at speed, unencumbered by
| antivirus or other unnecessary items which might have slowed them down!
|
| Like most shopping malls, there is security video in operation, I trust
| that it will be put to good use.
| =========================================
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/26/desperate-demand-for-the-elonex-webbook/
Related:
Elonex One Sighted
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| So now there's a Web site with some details.
|
| Also worth taking a look at is this BBC video.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/03/elonex-one-sighted.html
Elonex ONE Laptop Review by OLPC News
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| I was in Birmingham today for my nephew's first birthday, just after lunch I
| nipped out to visit the Education Show which was running on the other side of
| town in the National Exhibition Centre.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/competition/elonex_one_laptop_review.html
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.
|
| 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.
|
| [...]
|
| 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
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