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

[Dane Trethowan]

I guess if you look on the Asis web site then they can probably tell  
you.

On 04/12/2007, at 5:04 AM, Don H wrote:

> So where do you get these notebooks?
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>
>> 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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>> 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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