November 2007 - Posts
Asus |
The new Eee PC is E-E-Easy and fun to use.
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When you mention small, cheap laptops the One Laptop Per Child device immediately comes to mind.
Designed for third-world school children, the OLPC was supposed to cost just $100, although that price has increased to $200.
That’s why this week’s announcement from Asus is so exciting.
Their Eee PC also is a small, simple laptop which runs on the Linux operating system and is made to sell for just $300 to $400. Since it went on sale, last month in Taiwan, the Eee has been selling like hotcakes.
Asus has just announced their feature-rich, top-of-the line model, the Eee PC 4G is now available for sale here in the United States.
Eee stand for “easy to lean, easy to work and easy to play.” It’s a small, ultralight laptop with a 7-inch color screen, an Intel processor (the OLPC has an AMD chip) and a battery which provides up to 3 hours of use before needing recharging. Eee weighs less than two pounds.
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Everex |
The new Green ePC runs on a form of Linux called the gOS.
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Beginning today, Wal-Mart is selling a brand new computer for $199.
Everex calls their new Green gPC an alternative personal computer which runs on Linux – a free operating system. Its name implies it’s an alternative to more expensive devices which run on Microsoft Windows or Apple’s operating system.
(MSNBC.com is a Microsoft-NBC Universal joint venture.)
The gPC uses Ubuntu Linux, which is a free, open-source operating system. I’ve been testing Ubuntu on a number of different computers – old and new – for the past few months and I highly recommend it.
Everex added a green, graphical desktop and calls the result the gOS. The screen features oversized icons and a large, horizontal navigation bar with easy-to-understand icons for Web sites and free, installed software including the Mozilla Web browser, Skype and the OpenOffice suite plus links to YouTube and Wikipedia.
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