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

[Baracco, Andrew W]

When you buy one, you have to buy two, one for you, and one for a child
in a developing country.

Andy
 

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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:17 AM
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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>
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> 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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