OS – Linux

Upgraded Software, iTunes on Eee PC 900

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jkkmobile has news of updated software and drivers for the Microsoft Windows XP versions of the 8.9-inch Eee PC 900. You can download the updated Windows XP Software and drivers here: Support.ASUS.com. Joanna Stern over at the LAPTOP Magazine blog (she has to be the … Read more

Chasing the $100 Laptop

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The Christian Science Monitor has a three page article “More computer brands chase the ‘$100 laptop’ ” that looks into all of the uses that can be found for the netbooks/sub-notebooks, the ultraportable ultra-cheap devices that are rapidly dropping in price while rising in features … Read more

3K Longitude 400 Announced

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Another day, another netbook (well technically yesterday I suppose). 3K has announced the 3K Longitude 400, a $399 netbook/ subnotebook with a 7-inch display and powered by a 400MHz “Ingenic” CPU. 3K claims it has a “full-size” keyboard. The 7″ display has a resolution of … Read more

Laptop Industry Notes (Apple, Linux, Intel)

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Register Hardware and others are pointing out that Apple’s market share in the US jumped up to 6.6. In doing so, they took over fourth place on the list of units sold by computer makers, passing up Toshiba. Dell, HP, and Acer were in first, second, and third, respectively.

Register Hardware is also reporting that Intel will ship more mobile CPUs than desktop CPUs this year, rather than a year or two down the road as previously predicted. This is helped by the netbooks (or Small, Cheap, Computers – SCCs as they call them) such as the Asus Eee PC, and will be helped even further when Intel’s Atom platform starts rolling out this quarter.

A Red Hat Press Release mentions that Red Hat won’t be creating “a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future”, which is a big deal for laptop users who prefer to install Linux distributions from Red Hat (but there are options).

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Dell to Produce 8.9 – 9-inch Mini Notebook

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Dell Mini Inspiron Update: May 28, 2008 – it is now called the Dell Mini Inspiron. The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC and Acer’s upcoming Aspire offering won’t be the only small/ultra-portable laptops joining the Asus Eee PC 900 and Fujitsu LifeBook P1620 in the 8.9 – 9-inch range for netbooks/subnotebooks

Dell appears to be on its way to producing a machine in this range – lost in the hoopla over HP’s indtruction of the 2133 Mini-Note this week, are a few tantalizing bits of news coming straight from Michael Dell himself.

The Austin-American Statesman reported that in reference to Asustek’s Eee PC and Hewlett-Packard’s Mini-Note, CEO Michael Dell said yesterday, while on a trip to Israel, that Dell would be producing a similar model sometime in the next three-six months and that it would be running Linux.

San Jose Mercury News quoted Michael Dell as saying:

“We will introduce a similar laptop…We do see opportunities for very interesting products that are smaller and lighter and address the more mobile users in a very cost-effective way….”

“Stay tuned……We will have some interesting products coming in that space over the next two quarters.”

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