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

Mon Dec 3 12:10:41 CST 2007

The issue was taken up again on 60 Minutes last night.  At present,
there are at least 3 flavors of this machine. They featured the one that
was developed by the MIT professor, but since then, there have been
units developed by Intel, and another manufacturer. The one developed by
Negraponte runs under Linux. The Intel unit runs under some flavor of
Windows.

Andy

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I didn't see the brand of this machine.  please repost?  thanks

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A gentleman on the Blindtech list said he installed XP on His and it
works great with his screen reader. They are coming out with an XP model
soon.
They do have one with an 8 Gig drive. You would just need an external
drive if you need a lot of space.  Our local TV consumer reporter Clark
Howard, said he had one and loved it. He mainly uses it for  traveling.
Of course it would not be for every one but I would love to have one.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtdane at iprimus.com.au>
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has arrived

Yeah, well if you do that then you're not going to be left with all that
much space, I think Windows XP takes up near to a gig of disk space,
remember that this machine has a 4 gig "RAM" drive only.
Secondly the big issue would be whether drivers to run such things as
the sound device are available for this unit to work with XP, I suspect
not as this machine is specifically marketed and sold with LINUX drivers
and software.

On 01/12/2007, at 8:13 AM, Loy wrote:

> It is XP compatible. So you could install XP and use an addition 
> memory card to install programs. It's main intent is for internet use.
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> I think that is indeed what he said.  Anyone know whether this can be 
> made accessible or not; and, furthermore, is the new Australian 
> government going to buy what ever is needed to allow blind students to

> use it?
>
> A fair question don't you think?
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> From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
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> Oh, sorry. I thought you said the government was giving these to all 
> students. That was what I was commenting on.
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> From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtdane at iprimus.com.au>
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>
> 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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