Elonex One laptop has been displayed during Computex 2008 in Taiwan. The laptop is mentioned as the UK’s first £100 sub laptop in order to help students having access to affordable laptop.
Launched at the Education Show 2008, the laptop has been designed to offer affordable access to wireless internet, email and word-processing. Aimed primarily at the education sector the laptop will be a tool to give children modern computing skills and access to online resources, and to give teachers a range of new methods to teach with.
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It seem everybody joining mini-laptop market. After major players such as Intel, HP, Dell, Acer, MSI joining the game, now Qualcomm planned the same thing. As mentioned by Yahoo news, Qualcomm has been displayed its mini-laptop that could sell for about $300.
The laptop, made by Taiwan’s Inventec, is small and streamlined because the low-power chips inside don’t need much space to disperse heat. But it runs on a Linux OS, which is less familiar to most people than Microsoft Windows.
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Crave has proudly shared its experiences with the new MSI Wind hands-on. According to them, the CPU is very fast and can be overclocked up to 20, thank to the MSI’s TurboDrive Engine. Configured with a 10-inch, 1,024×600-pixel screen, the MSI Wind is larger and heavier than Asus Eee PC. And it’s planned to run in both Windows XP and SUSE Linux.
The Wind will also sport 1GB of RAM, an 80GB mechanical hard drive, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, three (count ‘em) USB ports, a D-Sub video output, a 4-in-1 memory card reader, and a 3-cell battery with a claimed life of 3-4 hours.
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Launched a couple of days ago, the Eee PC’s competitor made by Acer named Aspire One is expected to reach 5 million of shipment by year-end. Retailing for $399 per unit, the Aspire One is $91 cheaper than Eee PC.
Acer’s Aspire One is equipped with an Intel chip, the Atom processor, specially designed for low-cost machines, and runs on both Linux and Windows. Other features include an 8.9-inch screen, 512 megabytes of RAM, a built-in WiFi connection and expandable memory of 4 gigabytes, as well as a standard battery.
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Sony decided to adopt Via’s OpenBook design and get ready to join the low-cost mini-notebook market. Major laptop manufactures including HP, Intel, Acer, and MSI already joining the market to compete head-to-head with OLPC or Eee PC. It seems Sony can’t stand to dismiss the market, it’s better to become late than never.
The mini notebook has an 8.9-inch screen, at least an 80GB hard drive, will use a 1.6-Gigahertz C7-M processor from Via, and sports a VX800 chipset. The prototype on display was running Windows Vista Home Basic.
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Targeting the British educational market, Elenox released Linux-based laptop that worth about $200, named the Elonex One. The laptop powered by 300MHz processor and configured with Flash storage, 7-inch screen, and does support Ethernet lan, WiFi networks, and USB connectivity.
The Elonex One provides 128MB of RAM, 1GB of flash, and extra cost USB-based flash storage devices ranging up to 16GB, says Elonex. A One+ model doubles the memory and internal flash, and adds Bluetooth. Like Aware’s AW-300 (pictured at right), the Elonex One offers a detachable screen that provides the option of a standalone touchscreen tablet, complete with a mouse emulator on the back and an onscreen keyboard emulator.
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Great news for budget lover, especially the one who need low-price laptop such as Asus Eee PC. Now they have a wider option than just white or pink, because the black one is already spotted on a French blog, blogeee.net. This second generation of Eee PC was mentioned not to have WiMAX feature, but it does comes with 8.9 inch screen, Bluetooth, metal alloy parts to the keyboard and hinge. Regarding availability, it is expected to hit retail stores next month. It seems Eee PC has a big move to tackle the OLPC regardless the original idea behind the cheap laptop coming from OLPC.
Previously known as Longitude 400 but then it changed its name to RazorBook 400, this mini laptop is comparable to the famous Asus Eee PC. It runs on GTK Linux 2.4 operating system instead of Windows XP and powered by 400-MHz Igienic 32-bit Single Core Mobile Processor, 512MB DDR2 memory, and 4GB flash drive. The screen sports 7-inch WVGA LCD Display at 800 × 400 resolution. Price: $399.
The 3K RazorBook 400 is WLAN ready and has 3 USB ports. Thats all, more to say later on..
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