Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?
Asus Germany just announced that the X101 should become available in Austria and Germany in mid-August and with a price tag of €169 (~$241). I think this might just become my next impulse purchase;-) Am 31.07.2011 04:54, schrieb Ron Feigenblatt: On 5/30/11, Christoph Derndorfere0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: 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. ...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. What will happen to Meego now that Nokia is going steady with Microsoft? How interested is Intel in carrying Meego forward with its other partners? This is of course an interesting and yet-to-be answered question. If you want to keep an eye on Meego related news I'd suggest checking out http://www.meegonews.com/ which is doing a great job of covering that space. As an aside, my personal interest in the X101 is more closely related to education projects rather than Meego itself. People and organizations are regularly approaching me about using XOs and Sugar for projects but the defacto non-availability of classroom-sized XO purchases tends to kill their motivation rather quickly. Having another very inexpensive solution in this space might just be the catalyst many folks need! :-) 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
Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?
Hello, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Asus Germany just announced that the X101 should become available in Austria and Germany in mid-August and with a price tag of €169 (~$241). I think this might just become my next impulse purchase;-) ...As an aside, my personal interest in the X101 is more closely related to education projects rather than Meego itself. People and organizations are regularly approaching me about using XOs and Sugar for projects but the defacto non-availability of classroom-sized XO purchases tends to kill their motivation rather quickly. Having another very inexpensive solution in this space might just be the catalyst many folks need! :-) If the X101 runs Sugar on a Stick (SoS), isn't most of what you need accomplished? In recent years, I have not closely followed OLPC and Sugar. Does SoS exclude any important features, e.g. networking multiple PCs? The EEE netbook family is about four years old; millions have been sold. You might even borrow one at TUW right now, to try booting SoS. By the way, what about Sugar do you like best? The user interface? The suite of existing activities? The zero licensing costs? The ease of developing new activities? The brand equity? Something else? Ron F ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Ron Feigenblatt doc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Asus Germany just announced that the X101 should become available in Austria and Germany in mid-August and with a price tag of €169 (~$241). I think this might just become my next impulse purchase;-) ...As an aside, my personal interest in the X101 is more closely related to education projects rather than Meego itself. People and organizations are regularly approaching me about using XOs and Sugar for projects but the defacto non-availability of classroom-sized XO purchases tends to kill their motivation rather quickly. Having another very inexpensive solution in this space might just be the catalyst many folks need! :-) If the X101 runs Sugar on a Stick (SoS), isn't most of what you need accomplished? In recent years, I have not closely followed OLPC and Sugar. Does SoS exclude any important features, e.g. networking multiple PCs? No, generally SoaS aims at being compatible with the XO OS releases where possible, but generally a bit further ahead. The EEE netbook family is about four years old; millions have been sold. You might even borrow one at TUW right now, to try booting SoS. The EEE netbooks also use all sorts of chips so it works on most but not all. I'm awaiting the X101 to hit the shelves so we can see more details. In most cases now days the only issue we see on netbooks is those that use the X series atom processors and that is due to their GPU. Peter ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?
I'll take some of that back, I'm running it now, 0.90.1 or .2, IIRC, sucrose-0.90 and sugar-firefox-activity sugar-terminal-activity and many more .debs I've not tried, but am typing in one window on an EeePC (Not X101) now. Didn't pull it all in easily, as in give me a whole environment when asked for sugar, but will see. My comment was on remembering the state before, OLPCLC having some issues with Python libraries not the same in Fedora as Ubuntu, and some abandoned project(s). Ubuntu-Sugar-Remix, IIRC, but the people working on that are probably on this list and can reply personally/ directly... I am asked for a Jabber password in the other desktop environments which seems Odd... On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:28 PM, DancesWithCars danceswithc...@gmail.com wrote: re: porting to other distros, Ubuntu's has had only limited to slight success... On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Asus just posted the specifications page for the X101: http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_X101/#specifications Unfortunately at 28Wh the battery is relatively small so it will be interesting to see what real-time battery life people will report. Christoph Am 28.07.2011 11:17, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer: 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 -- DancesWithCars leave the wolves behind ;-) -- DancesWithCars leave the wolves behind ;-) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?
On 5/30/11, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: 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. ...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. What will happen to Meego now that Nokia is going steady with Microsoft? How interested is Intel in carrying Meego forward with its other partners? As a point of interest, the Wikipedia article on Intel's Classmate PC lists five operating systems for the Classmate - but none of them is Meego. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?
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
Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?
Asus just posted the specifications page for the X101: http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_X101/#specifications Unfortunately at 28Wh the battery is relatively small so it will be interesting to see what real-time battery life people will report. Christoph Am 28.07.2011 11:17, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer: 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
Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?
re: porting to other distros, Ubuntu's has had only limited to slight success... On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Asus just posted the specifications page for the X101: http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_X101/#specifications Unfortunately at 28Wh the battery is relatively small so it will be interesting to see what real-time battery life people will report. Christoph Am 28.07.2011 11:17, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer: 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 -- DancesWithCars leave the wolves behind ;-) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
