new laptop design, have you seen this yet?

frieza · 03-26-2003, 09:56 AM

http://www.zentex.com
have you seen this radical new design for a laptop?
kinda cool, but really crazy

i'd like to play with linux on that machine

what do you think about it?

RolledOat · 03-26-2003, 10:28 AM

The link provided doesn't point to a laptop, it points to zentex web directory.

RO

MasterC · 03-26-2003, 10:58 AM

And just out of curiosity I tried zentex.net zentex.org and did a google on zentex, no dice.

Cool

frieza · 03-26-2003, 11:09 AM

oops my bad
http://www.xentex.com

wapcaplet · 03-26-2003, 11:14 AM

Looks pretty cool... at first I thought I'd be annoyed by the split-screen, but it looks like they're each 13.3" diagonal, so this thing is pretty big! 1536x1024 res. Kinda like having two desktops side-by side, which can be treated as one (I presume?)

Wow, looks like you can even flip the individual screen around to show your audience.

What'd make it even cooler is if the two screens detatched and could be used as tablet PCs... that would rock!

From the FAQ:

Can the Voyager run Linux?
Being a PC-based machine with many standard components, there is nothing limiting the operating system choice, other than device driver support. Our development team is currently in the preliminary stage of designing a Linux-based Voyager. The timeframe of that release has not yet been decided. It is likely we will be focusing on one of the major distributions of Linux, and designing our drivers for that, so that it is a fully functional Linux machine.

Heh. It is $5 grand. Looks like I won't be getting one for X-mas just yet...

trickykid · 03-26-2003, 11:35 AM

Moved: Not sure if it even belongs in Hardware so its been moved to General. Please try to post in the correct forums, Linux - General is mainly for Linux Technical questions that don't fit into any other particular category.

Thanks.

RolledOat · 03-26-2003, 12:41 PM

At 12 pounds, it is a bit of a tank, however, I didn't see anything in the tech specs that is explicitly non linux. AMD, 512 ram, etc. Likely have to tweak the drivers per normal on laptops. I'd like on once I knew it would run Linux smoothly. At $5K, not in the near future, that is for sure.

RO

wapcaplet · 03-26-2003, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RolledOat
At 12 pounds, it is a bit of a tank, however, I didn't see anything in the tech specs that is explicitly non linux. AMD, 512 ram, etc. Likely have to tweak the drivers per normal on laptops. I'd like on once I knew it would run Linux smoothly. At $5K, not in the near future, that is for sure.

Again, from the FAQ:

Can the Voyager run Linux?
Being a PC-based machine with many standard components, there is nothing limiting the operating system choice, other than device driver support. Our development team is currently in the preliminary stage of designing a Linux-based Voyager. The timeframe of that release has not yet been decided. It is likely we will be focusing on one of the major distributions of Linux, and designing our drivers for that, so that it is a fully functional Linux machine.