China’s HiVision has debuted a Linux-based laptop that makes the OLPC seem ridiculously expensive. For US$98, you get a MIPS-based processor, 1GB flash storage, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, an SDHC card reader, WiFi, audio in and out, voice-chat and Firefox browser support on a Linux user interface. No word who this is being marketed towards, but with a price tag that low, maybe this will end up being the device that fulfils Nicholas Negroponte’s much criticised mission. The video above is Tech Video Blog’s review of Hivision’s miniNote (hmm, naming conflict with HP in the near future?) at IFC 2008. [ Tech Video Blog via The Earth Times]
MsJaye
Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 3:23 PMNot to pick or anything, if you’re going to post an 18 minute YouTube video on your site, perhaps the automatic page refresh you’ve got going on every few minutes isn’t really such a good idea. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s really irritating, as the video starts again from the beginning.
Tedious.
David
Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 11:21 PMHey just wanted to say thanks for the review. Very Kool! very informative. Also is the reviewer Nicholas Negroponte’s? wanted to say you’re a crackup(in a good way haha!). good stuff