Gizmodo Australia » fedora http://www.gizmodo.com.au the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:09:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Official Indiana Jones Fedora Available Now For Nerds Everywhere http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/official_indiana_jones_fedora_available_now_for_nerds_everywhere/ http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/official_indiana_jones_fedora_available_now_for_nerds_everywhere/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:00 +0000 Jason Chen http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/official_indiana_jones_fedora_available_now_for_nerds_everywhere.html The reason that the official Indiana Jones Fedora is available on Think Geek is that only geeks think that they can pull off wearing a fedora in the year 2008. The only fedora you (us) nerds should stick to is Red Hat’s version, leaving Indiana Jones’ to the still handsome but greying Harrison Ford. If you really do want to pick up your own version for some down-home sexy play, it’s US$99. Everything’s in stock except for X-Large and XX-Large, further proving our point that only overweight nerds will buy and wear this outdoors. [Think Geek]

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Somebody must be losing money on this Medison Celebrity laptop, running Fedora Linux and certainly qualifying as the cheapest notebook in the world at $150. Heck, that’s even less expensive than the OLPC (one laptop per child) that was supposed to cost $100 and has now ballooned up past $175, and which some sources are saying will retail for between $350 and $525 and won’t be available until this coming holiday season. But this Medison Celebrity is a real notebook, with an Intel Celeron 1.5 GHz CPU, a 14-inch 1280×768 LCD screen, 256MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive. There’s got to be a catch.Medison is a Swedish company whose spokesman can’t disclose exactly how many laptops the company will be selling at this rock-bottom $150 price. So could this be a publicity stunt, positioning the company as a philothropist that “wants everyone to be able to afford a computer?” It’s not going to do anybody much good if there are no PCs available, or if you’ll wait a year for one to be delivered.

Other companies, Acer, for one, will swoop in to compete with this, if it’s even possible. Can the age of disposable laptops be upon us? Perhaps it already is. [Medison, via Insider Weblog]

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