All entries for Thursday 28 February 2008

More on the £99 laptop

Writing about web page http://www.elonexone.co.uk/

It’s predictably low spec but at the price point those digital picture frame which are all over the place now start to get a worthwhile spec screen you do get something with a keyboard, ‘mouse emulator’, decent res screen (for the size) more USB ports than a MacBook Air and wireless. I think they missed a trick in not including an SD card slot though. Shoving a card in to it would be a lot more convenient way of expanding the storage than a USB drive.
Apparently it runs Linux Linos 2.6.21. Whatever that is. 2.6.21 looks suspiciously like a Linux kernel version number and the only references I find for Linos via Google are videos of people booting a ‘Linos stick’ which reveals no more than that some people are capable of videoing themselves plugging a USB drive in to a computer and turning it on.

Mike Willis : 28 Feb 2008 19:40 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem