Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-24 Thread Liam Proven
2009/2/24 Robert McWilliam : > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 04:07:26AM +, Liam Proven wrote: >> Perhaps I'm doing the Pandora an injustice, but it looked to me like a >> pocket console. Small, relatively low-res screen, not much storage, >> not much expansion, token keyboard, but built-in game contr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-24 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 04:07:26AM +, Liam Proven wrote: > Perhaps I'm doing the Pandora an injustice, but it looked to me like a > pocket console. Small, relatively low-res screen, not much storage, > not much expansion, token keyboard, but built-in game controllers: not > so much a Gameboy, t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-23 Thread Liam Proven
2009/2/24 Matthew Wild : > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Liam Proven wrote: >> 2009/2/23 Robert McWilliam : >>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:53:19PM +, Liam Proven wrote: The form-factor the ARM netbooks should be aiming for is that of the Psion 5 and 5mx, or a host of broadly-simil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-23 Thread Matthew Wild
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > 2009/2/23 Robert McWilliam : >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:53:19PM +, Liam Proven wrote: >>> The form-factor the ARM netbooks should be aiming for is that of the >>> Psion 5 and 5mx, or a host of broadly-similar Windows-CE powered >>> Handh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-23 Thread Liam Proven
2009/2/23 Robert McWilliam : > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:53:19PM +, Liam Proven wrote: >> The form-factor the ARM netbooks should be aiming for is that of the >> Psion 5 and 5mx, or a host of broadly-similar Windows-CE powered >> Handheld PCs, such as the HP Jornada 720, the LG Phenom, the NEC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-23 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:53:19PM +, Liam Proven wrote: > The form-factor the ARM netbooks should be aiming for is that of the > Psion 5 and 5mx, or a host of broadly-similar Windows-CE powered > Handheld PCs, such as the HP Jornada 720, the LG Phenom, the NEC > MobilePro and so on. Pocketable

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-21 Thread Jim Kissel
Liam Proven wrote: > 2009/2/21 Andrew Oakley : >> Paul Sutton wrote: >>> http://www.notebooks.com/2009/01/07/new-generation-of-netbooks-199-and-299-eight-hour-battery-sexy-design/ >> Interesting, but the Intel Atom x86-based Asus Eee 901 can already >> provide 8 hours of battery life. I've got on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-21 Thread Liam Proven
2009/2/20 Paul Sutton : > > this was posted to the OU linux conference > > http://www.notebooks.com/2009/01/07/new-generation-of-netbooks-199-and-299-eight-hour-battery-sexy-design/ > > > Paul Sutton > www.zleap.net > Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf > http://www.odfalliance

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-21 Thread Liam Proven
2009/2/21 Andrew Oakley : > Paul Sutton wrote: >> http://www.notebooks.com/2009/01/07/new-generation-of-netbooks-199-and-299-eight-hour-battery-sexy-design/ > > Interesting, but the Intel Atom x86-based Asus Eee 901 can already > provide 8 hours of battery life. I've got one, and it really does. O

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Oakley
Paul Sutton wrote: > http://www.notebooks.com/2009/01/07/new-generation-of-netbooks-199-and-299-eight-hour-battery-sexy-design/ Interesting, but the Intel Atom x86-based Asus Eee 901 can already provide 8 hours of battery life. I've got one, and it really does. Whilst I know Canonical are produc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new arm notebooks

2009-02-20 Thread David King
I think I will wait for the leg notebooks :-) David King Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 this was posted to the OU linux conference http://www.notebooks.com/2009/01/07/new-generation-of-netbooks-199-and-299-eight-hour-battery-sexy-design/ Paul Sutton ww