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Linux - Laptop and Netbook Having a problem installing or configuring Linux on your laptop? Need help running Linux on your netbook? This forum is for you. This forum is for any topics relating to Linux and either traditional laptops or netbooks (such as the Asus EEE PC, Everex CloudBook or MSI Wind).

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Old 10-30-2008, 11:07 PM   #1
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Netbook for $98 USD


Not the high end netbook, but an impressive coffee cruiser for the less than a $100 US price!!! Looking at the interface, the EeePC touch screen mod would be interesting...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKQbN6tpYXw

Can't find one in the states... Any one managed to purchase one of these systems in Europe or Asia?

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Old 10-31-2008, 03:54 PM   #2
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This is not nearly as good a deal as people think on first glance.

Unlike the EeePC or any of the other current netbooks, that is not a standard x86 computer. It is an MIPS-based proprietary system, much like a PDA. You can't install your own software on it (in theory you could cross-compile software for MIPS, but that has it's own logistical problems) and it runs the 2.4 kernel, so hardware support is minimal at best.

This is more of a toy than a real laptop. It might be a good choice to give a child, but for anything else you would be better off spending a couple hundred more and getting an Eee.

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