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Entries Tagged as 'Laptops'

Lenovo to offer Linux on laptops

August 6th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Lenovo, one of the world’s biggest PC manufacturers, is to start selling laptops to business and consumers with Linux pre-installed on the machines. Linux is a free, open source operating system developed as an alternative to systems such as Microsoft’s Windows. Novell will provide the Linux software on the laptops, which are due to go [...]

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One laptop per child project underway

July 27th, 2007 by dcouper · No Comments

The One Laptop Per Child project (www.laptop.org) appears to be gathering momentum, with production under way and orders starting to come in. Nicknamed the $100 laptop – at the moment the actual price will be around $175. The hope is, however, that as orders increase, so economies of scale will kick in and the price [...]

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The New Dell Vostro Laptops

July 17th, 2007 by Bill Hutchison · 2 Comments

Dell has recently released a new line of systems targeting the Small Business User called Vostro. So far from what I can price out on their site I am very impressed with the affordability of the laptops. I have been looking specifically at the Dell Vostro 1400 Notebook and it looks like quite a nice [...]

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