Eee PC

A post on Gizmodo has pointed out a disturbing trend, which has been noted in the laptop.org forums- the rubberized keys on the keyboard of the OLPC laptop are being easily peeled off by the children.  The forum thread has several people asking how to get replacement keys, and one of them even posted a [...]

Okay, so I have to confess that one of the things that bugs me about the pre-installed Linux environment on the Eee PC is that the native repositories (online resources of programs) are limited, and aren’t always compatible with Debian ones. In fact, I can say this from experience, because when I was first learning [...]

The fuzzy photos we saw last week on Engadget have now given way to an official announcement about that cute li’l Netbook we were speculating on- it’s actually called the “2go PC”. The 2go will be manufactured by CTL, and sports the following specs: An Intel Celeron M CPU, with a 915GMS chipset 512MB of [...]

Okay, so no sooner has Samsung issued the challenge against the Eee PC with their Q1 Ultra, than Gigabyte has unveiled their UMPC mini-tablet at CeBit, in Germany. The M700. The M700 sports a 7-inch touchscreen (with a nice resolution of 1024×600 pixels), full Windows Vista Home Premium, a 1.2GHz Via C7-M processor, and a [...]

Okay, so Samsung has now decided to join the OLPC fray by announcing a Q1 Ultra that will be education-focussed, and sell for only £399 (approx. $800), to compete with the ‘Asus Eee effect’, when it launches in the UK later this month. The Q1 is a drastically different device, but it does have a [...]