MSI’s Wind Notebook is pretty much everything we’ve heard, says Engadget; about 1-kg weight; XP-only (at the moment); LED-backlit, 8.9- and 10-inch 1,024 x 600 displays; and traditional 80GB, 2.5-inch hard disk.
MSI claims to have a superior keyboard and battery life compared to the competition. No word on price or delivery date though a Juneish launch (with Atom CPU) is rumored with a price tag between $470 to $1,099.
Meanwhile, Asustek plans to launch a new version of the Eee PC with a 10-inch screen, reports PC World. The company’s CEO made the statement at the launch of the new Eee PC 900 with an 8.9-inch screen, in Taiwan. The original Eee PC 701 carries a 7-inch screen. The Eee PC 900 went on sale Monday in Taiwan for NT$15,988 (US$528).
In related cheap laptop news, the $200 One Laptop Per Child is experiencing a rash of “stuck key” issues, says SlashDot.
Keys are becoming stuck in activated positions, and / or are being triggered by key presses nearby.
Apparently, rumor has it that Nicholas Negroponte is close to abandoning Sugar and Linux in favor of Microsoft XP, to spur sales of the XO laptop. Negroponte thinks that many more laptops need to be sold and a partnership with Microsoft is the way to achieve that goal.Walter Bender disagreed.
And so he walked away from OLPC the organization for One Laptop Per Child.
But overall, open source Linux projects appear to be doing well.
Nearly one-fifth of mid- and high-end handsets will run Linux by 2013, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.
Google’s Android initiative and Nokia (which earlier this year spent $153 million to acquire Trolltech, a Linux developer), are expected to fuel Linux’s strong growth over the next several years, predicted ABI.
.gif)
