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HP Mini 100e Education Edition Netbook for Schools

 HP announced the Mini 100e Education Edition netbook designed “to help schools around the world acquire affordable, reliable computing technology.” This education-focus Mini is powered by Intel Atom N455 processor and 1GB DDR3 memory. It comes with a 10.1-inch LED-backlit display with 1024×600 resolution.
In addition to optional WiFi, the Mini 100e also include an integrated worldwide modem that is compatible in all countries with the V.92 standard for dial-up internet connection.  It also packs webcam, spill-resistant keyboard and and an integrated carrying handle. It comes with Windows XP Home, Windows 7 Starter and SuSE Linux OS options. The price will be below $300.

iRiver Domino Inflate USB Flash Drive

River launches in Korea the new Domino Inflate USB flash drive, which, as the name tells, is the “inflated” version of the company’s original Domino USB memory. As the second edition of Domino drive, the Domino Inflate looks less like an domino.
The drive is available in 4GB (Orange), 8GB (White), 16GB (Black) and 32GB (Orange) capacities. Price starts at 34,900 Korean Won.

 

Super Talent launches its new line Performance Series DDR3 and Speed Series DDR3 4GB dual channel DDR3 kits for Core i5 and Core i7 systems based on Intel’s P55. There are in total nine kits and are available in speeds ranging from DDR3-1600 to DDR3-2200.

Performance Series DDR3

WP200UX4G8	DDR3-2000 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 8-8-8-24
WP200UX4G9	DDR3-2000 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 9-9-9-28
WP160UX4G7	DDR3-1600 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 7-7-7-21
WP160UX4G8	DDR3-1600 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 8-8-8-24
WP160UX4G9	DDR3-1600 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 9-9-9-28

Speed Series DDR3

WS220UX4G8	DDR3-2200 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 8-8-8-24
WS220UX4G9	DDR3-2200 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 9-9-9-28
WS213UX4G8	DDR3-2133 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 8-8-8-24
WS213UX4G9	DDR3-2133 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 9-9-9-28

Intel Research showed me a demo of their Platform Power Management system. Essentially, they're applying the smart, quick, hardware level idling you find on a CPU to many system parts. The result: systems that idle at 10x less juice.

The tech is applied to things like USB ports, which in 3.0, will go from polling (clock based, always checking) devices to being managed via events, so they can sleep whenever not being used. And graphics, when the page isn't changing, can be run out of a frame buffer so the GPU and video RAM can sleep. When I say more sleep, I mean for additional milliseconds or longer. This adds up, over the course of a day when people stop to read or step away from their computers. In the past, the OS controlled the power savings, and that required power to process in turn, so you were using the system's power to manage power, keeping those other components from ever really turning off. By doing power management with more granularity, in hardware and software together, you can switching things on/off fast enough to fit in lots of "naps" and you can also do it with less processing overhead.

I'm excited for this tech to go everywhere where there's a chip.

Over the past few days I’ve been taking Intel’s Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop for netbooks for a spin. Can Intel compete with its long-time partner Microsoft in the operating system game?
Moblin has had an odd history. Back in April Intel handed over its Moblin mobile Linux project to the Linux Foundation and many took that as a sign that the chip giant wanted to walk away from the project. However, since then Intel announced that it was working with Novell to bring Moblin to netbook desktops.It seems that rather than walk away from Moblin, Intel wanted the project to be seen as a Linux project and not an Intel project.

Moblin is an interesting project that’s based on a Fedora Linux backbone, it uses a GNOME desktop and apps. But it’s also different from every Linux distro I’ve seen too.

So how is Moblin different? Well, rather than being application-centric like most operating systems, it’s function-centric. So rather than firing up a browser, you have a specific tab on the menu bar to change your Twitter status or access the Internet. The home screen, called the M-Zone, is the user’s command center for seeing what social network pals are up to and communicating with them.

Does this function-centric approach work? Well, personally I don’t think it does. When I first loaded it up I was confronted by a whole raft of mystery meat navigation. The only way to figure out what something did was to randomly click about and see what happened. I’m not sure if the problem boils down to the interface just not being usable, or to whether the OS still needs a lot of work doing to it. The current state of the OS seems to turn a netbook into a very limited device, and I can see some users never being able to figure out how to add useful applications such as office apps onto their netbook. The same complaint could be leveled at any Windows-based system, but Linux distros usually make downloading and installing more apps easy.

This project could deliver a nice, workable OS for netbooks, but for now I’m left feeling that the OS turns a netbook into a Fisher Price “My First Twittering Netbook” platform.more