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

[Don H]

So where do you get these notebooks?
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From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
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Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has arrived


> 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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> On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan
> 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>
>> 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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