FYI: Directron in the United States now accepts pre-orders for the X101 at a price point of $209: http://www.directron.com/x101eu17bk.html?gsear=1
If anyone goes for it please let me know what you think about it, especially as a platform for education projects. Unfortunately it's still not available on this side of the big pond:-/ Cheers, Christoph Am 30.05.2011 16:55, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer: > Hi all, > > it's still early days but it looks like the ASUS Eee PC X101 presented > at a pre-Computex press event today could be a good platform for Sugar. > At a price-point of $199, less than 1kg of weight, and with a 1.33GHz > Intel Atom CPU this really does look like an interesting product for > schools, both in developing and developed nations. > > Since it runs Meego I would assume that on the software side of things > getting other Linux distributions to run on it shouldn't be too hard, > but others will know more here. > > Engadget has a quick hands-on video of the X101 which might of interest > to some of you: > http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/asus-brings-out-extra-skinny-eee-pc-x101-running-meego-hands-on/ > > Anyway, I'll definitely keep an eye on this one! :-) > > Cheers, > Christoph > -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep