[gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has arrived

[slery]

Just a little aside, I have been watching (watching today but recorder on a
different day) Hi Tech Toys for the Holidays.  This was actually one of the
products they were showcasing.  Of course, they only give quick little
blurbs, but I didn't realize that it had no hard drive.  I guess that is why
they followed it with a seagate portable drive and stated that you could run
all your applications on that from any computer.

Cindy
PS There is a website that goes with the program:
www.hitechtoystv.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:17 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has arrived
> 
> 
> Sorry? I don't follow you here, its already selling in the 
> states. I meant to give you a price tag too, $400.00.
> 
> On 01/12/2007, at 4:39 AM, Sherri wrote:
> 
> > That's pretty good! Of course, nothing like that would happen in the
> > states.
> >
> > Sherri
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtdane at iprimus.com.au>
> > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:18 PM
> > Subject: [gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has arrived
> >
> >
> > Hi Everyone!
> > Well we have a new Government in australia and what does 
> this have to 
> > do with the subject line of this message I hear you ask? 
> Well during 
> > the Federal Election camping the incoming Labor Party promised to 
> > equip all High School students with a laptop/notebook computer and 
> > many people (including yours truly) wondered just how much this 
> > "equipping" process may cost. Having just read an article 
> in today's 
> > Australian newspaper, I doubt whether the cost  will be as 
> high as it 
> > could have been if Mr Rudd (our new Prime Minister) decides to give 
> > out the new Asis notebook computer which has taken the U.S. 
> by storm, 
> > in its first month of release over 10,000 units were sold, not bad.
> > So what's special about this new notebook computer and what sets it
> > apart from the competition? Well firstly, the unit doesn't 
> have a hard
> > drive, It has 4 gigs of RAM for data I/O which can be 
> expanded by the
> > use of external hard drives or SD memory cards. The notebook itself
> > has only 512 meg of RAM for running applications.
> > Now readers may think this amount insignificant compared to other
> > notebooks which boast RAM in the "gigabyte" region but again we're
> > talking about a different species of notebook here, this one runs
> > "open source" software including a version of LINUX with a GUI so it
> > looks like Windows to the user.
> > So what do you get with this thing? 4 USB ports, its Wi-Fi 
> compatible
> > and will run for 4 hours away from an AC power source, not too bad
> > when you consider that this device is the size of a large paperback
> > book with a 7-inch LCD display. The notebook machine has a cramped
> > "qwerty"-style keyboard and I would imagine that you could plug-in a
> > full-size keyboard to one of the USB ports.
> > Audio recording/playback is possible with the unit as it boasts both
> > line-in/mic and line-out/headphone sockets.
> > I guess the next question will be whether some "clever dick" will be
> > able to get this thing to run some sort of screen reader, will it be
> > powerful enough to do that? The CPU is nothing to rave 
> about at 750MHZ
> > however that's perfectly adequate I would have thought for the tasks
> > to which this notebook is likely to be paired.
> >
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