On 13/01/10 11:14, John Carter wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Don Robertson wrote:
On 08/01/10 19:58, Roy Britten wrote:
So, I've got some money burning a hole in my pocket and I'm quite keen
on getting a netbook / small formfactor notebook.
If you are willing to wait a while ... and maybe buy a hundred ...
and take a trip to Thailand ...
http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html
The video is pretty interesting too.
Linux Journal had a review of this thing...
http://alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm
Followed the link - but goes to a Touch Book with a removable keyboard.
I have always wondered why laptops with removable keyboards are so rare.
I hate having my hands up by the screen and having to hunch down to see
it. The mac Duo looked cool for those with a company credit card.
Anyway - what I like about the Nortec is that almost everything can be
easily swapped out, and you don't get hit for expensive new batteries
and power supplies. A replacement power supply for my Mac laptop would
have been $US150 - all because Steve didn't like the look of the rubber
cable protector on the cool glowing laptop plug. As for the $&#^$%
battery ... So I am a bit sensitive on the issue :-|
Nortec also do some pretty cool 'microclients' for LTSP, firewalls etc.
They are really aimed at the third world education market.
Apparently it has hackable hardware as well, although they weren't too
impressed by it's stability.
I suspect they just finding out that writing CPU portable C code is
hardish, and not many programmers do it properly.
Ah well, portability bugs are more often than not latent defects
anyway. So it's all Good for linux in general.
John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [email protected]
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