I’ve been roundly disappointed by the Xandros Linux build on my 20GB Eee PC 900, but not quite enough to remove it. Ubuntu et al take far too long to boot; Moblin shouldn’t work, given its new Atom requirement; Windows is too bloated and slow to boot, although it would be okay with a conventional [...]
Here’s what someone should build (Tom – Are you listening?):
It seems patently obvious that there would be a market for an entirely self-contained, easy to use SOHO inventory management device. Call it “Library in a Pocket” or something like that, but all you need is a cheap little ARM based Linux handheld with a barcode [...]
It’s always (ie for the last 18 months [when I discovered these]) bugged the living hell out of me that there were no tablet netbooks on the market, though it could plainly be done. End user accessible kits even exist for the purpose. ASUS et al hadn’t announced a tablet and noone had shipped one, [...]
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