Another ULPC - these sure are flying out of the manufacturers - with good reason too, sales of this particular segment are expected to hit all time highs in this year. Whats really unfortunate is that when they are announced, the makers promise us one price and by the time they reach the stores, the prices have nearly doubled. I understand its important to keep quality concerns going especially in low cost computers, but surely this could be worked upon?

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In order to ensure that their high end or latest products such as Vista are not cannibalized by sales of the cheaper laptops such as eeePC , Microsoft has decided on limiting the capabilities of these cheaper machines. Microsoft plans to offer PC makers steep discounts on Windows XP Home Edition to encourage them to use that OS instead of Linux on ultra low-cost PCs (ULPCs).

To be eligible, however, the PC vendors that make ULPCs must limit screen sizes to 10.2 inches and hard drives to 80G bytes, and they cannot offer touch-screen PCs.

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Lets see, ask any non-nerd off the streets whether he knows anything about Linux. Chances are the first things that he shall tell you is that its supposed to be a free OS of some kind. He would know this even if he were not a nerd and even if he has never tried out Linux in his or her lifetime. And as a matter of fact, his statement would be completely correct.

Linux is open source and unless you would like to buy it off the shelf like from Red Hat, you are not charged anything to install it. You could take it off the net completely free. You know that, I know that and the non-nerd knows that. However a big IT company such as Asus does not.

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The Toshiba Portege M-800 has been announced by Toshiba. This funky laptop with its pure white color and silver accents shall arrive in the third quarter of this year. The white LEDs further add to its charm.

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Once again, CSS guru Roman Cortes at his best. This has to be the only instance ever of using just CSS for producing an animated image.

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Microsoft is akin to a teenager who is in love for the first time. Kind of like where the girl plays Will he? Wont he? game by plucking out all the flowers in the garden and ruining them by plucking out all the petals. After forcing consumers to go for the Vista by claiming that they would not support XP beyond mid 2008 ; Microsfot has now back tracked.

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The Airis Kira which has aname suspiciously close the the Death Note Anime from Japan is what the eeePC has to battle as its latest competitor. The Kira is powered by a VIA C7 1GHz processor, and comes with a 7-inch display, WiFi 802.11b/g support, integrated webcam, media card reader and USB 2.0 ports.

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