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MSI Wind
10-inch screen, long battery life and comfortable keypad, sounds good but at what price?

Price
Taiwan’’s MSI (Micro-Star International) plans to sell them for around £300 in the UK, Europe, US starting from July. The price of the laptop puts it close to the top of the small screen laptops but given the screen is bigger than some of its competitors and the RAM is 1gb the MSI Wind comes out a fair price.

Features
MSI Wind will come in a variety of colours bundled with Microsoft Windows XP, the 1.6GHz Intel Atom microprocessor, 80GB hard disk drive (HDD) and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g.

It will be interesting to see the price of a linux version of the laptop

Known as the Acer One, as you can see from the above picture it brings a fresh new look to the linux laptop scene, according to Acer it’’s “not a low-cost notebook” and on first impressions looking at the laptop I would agree.

The One is packed with processor and memory power boasting a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor; 512MB of 533MHz DDR 2 memory with a single SO-Dimm slot ; 1024 x 600, 262,000-colour LED-backlit display, 8.9in screen and a 0.3- mega pixel webcam.

Acer’’s One: The Price?

Like many other small laptops the One comes with a choice of either Linux or XP Home. The Linux version is fitted with 8GB of solid-state storage, while the alternative XP version comes with a 80GB hard drive along with a higher price and a battery life which is lower.

The One uses Intel’’s 945GSE chipset, HD audio on board and 3D graphics support. 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and 10/100Mb/s Ethernet , 3 USB 2.0 ports, 3.5mm audio sockets and VGA.

Slick

One of the plus points to the laptop is that it comes with a memory card reader which is great to boast storage capacity.

BT bundles Microsoft Office with Linux laptop

Purchasers of the Asus Linux-running Eee PC 900 are offering Microsoft Office to get attention for their products.

Well I myself find BT’’s offer quite interesting their linux laptop is offering the 20GB 900 for £335.99, and if you want the MS Office Home and student in the box the price will be £422.34.

Bt has selected the deal which saves just under £2 by buying them in this package as opposed to buying the 2 products seperately.

Asus have launched a linux laptop which is a great addition to the family of linux laptops, there are becoming a wider and wider range of linux laptops and with the brand support of Asus budget mobile computing is becoming a reality.

Here is a brief description on the linux laptop:
“Great for the beginner - the Eee PC has a Linux operating system that’’s more easier to use than any Windows machine and it starts up twice as fast. Small, yet sturdy, it’’s a good choice for the children too.”

Well it looks like we have a company called Elonexone who have decided to launch a laptop at the £100 mark, here is some information about the laptop:

“Introducing the Elonex ‘ONE’ laptop, the UK’s first sub £100 laptop. Aimed at the Education Sector, the ONE is an ultra-portable laptop that gives wireless access to internet, eMail, word processing and spreadsheets. These functions are the fundamental building blocks which form the foundation of a child’s computing skills which can then be developed throughout their education. The ONE is designed to engage and motivate children and will open up a wide range of new and innovative teaching methods.”

The laptop will be available to reserve from early March and you can See the ONE at the NEC Birmingham from 28th Feb to 1st Mar. Elonex will launch the ONE laptop in Hall 11 at Stand SW-T51.

Ubuntu project seems to be the Linux distribution of choice with most linux laptops being bundled with the OS.

Of course with anything new people will always be hesitant to change, a few years ago so many people could not even contemplate who would have thought a laptop without windows.

Scary thoughts for many windows users, however the price difference is worth giving the linux laptop a test run.

Personally I have found the Ubuntu operating system to be very effective and easy to use with this transistion guide from PC Mech it is made even easier:

http://www.pcmech.com/article/windows-to-ubuntu-transition-guide/

A brand new laptop at half the cost?
Well maybe not half the cost but a substantial price difference to most new windows laptops offered by a majority of stores.

There are now new laptops being sprung up all over the internet at some of the biggest branded sites with prices as low as £200 ($400).

It does sound to good to be true to the unsuspecting buyer, looking into the specs of the laptop is where you will see how they have managed to bring the prices down……

The Linux Laptop!

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