Archive for the 'Little Laptops' Category

As many of you know, I have been playing with various small Linux based laptops which are going to change the world. One thing I have noticed on some of them is a familiar user interface. This is the Elonex One, it was launched last week in the UK and I was there to play with it, I even did a review. Here is the home screen of the One in tablet mode:

Now lets look at another small Linux laptop, this is the Asus EeePC which in the UK RM are calling the RM Minibook:

Does that remind you of anything? Let me give you a clue

I couldn’t get Notes standard for Linux running on it (mainly because of the odd way IBM packaged the install I think) but this is Notes 8 basic for Windows running under Wine.

Of course no article about world changing Linux laptops would be complete without a picture of the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop so here it is:

No workspace on that one, but it is running CouchDB (yes, that URL does start with localhost)