The Eduwise laptop joins low-cost PC projects such as AMD's Personal Internet Communicator and MIT's Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child programme. Intel unveiled its laptop for schools in developing countries on Wednesday, with CEO Paul...
In some cases, that meant that laptop owners thought they had put a PC to sleep, only to discover a few hours later that the machine had remained on and their laptop's battery had been drained. In particular, the operating system now supports the...
I don't have a games console, so there's no online gaming with teenagers around the world courtesy of the folks at a Microsoft or a Sony. One thing I'd looked forward to was connecting it to my home network and entering a networked gaming nirvana.
Still, there's no guarantee that the greatest technical minds at Redmond will manage to get XP working on the low-spec computers that use a 433MHz AMD chip with 256MB of RAM and a meagre 1GB of flash hard drive space.
All three featured the G4 chips, which lagged badly behind Intel and AMD chips at the time. And with justification: the market was ripe for a sub-notebook from Apple and the company has always been ahead of the game with its laptops.
I lament the passing of XP, having recently bought a Vista equipped laptop, I wish Microsoft would listen to its customer base and merely continue to improve XP. The latest iPhone software allows corporates to remotely wipe all data from a lost or...