7Jun/071
$189 Laptop
And Today, in the laptop world...
Asus chairman Jonney Shih sprang a surprise during Intel's Computex keynote today with the announcement of a $189 laptop.
This little baby would be less than P9000 is today's rates. This has a small hard disk space - only 2GB.
The low price comes from some interesting design choices, primarily the flash-based hard disk.
It uses a Linux OS. Probably good enough for school work but not for gaming. No news on Internet connectivity yet.
Looks like an expensive portable typewriter to me.
June 14th, 2007 - 15:44
They did say they saw Firefox running, and it looks like OpenOffice is there too.
Enough for most users, especially first-time users, I think.