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Malata's nixes the hard drive in $300 laptop
What this computer doesn't have is part of the news! The new Malata PC-68001 Personal Computer lacks a hard-disk drive, nor does it have a CD-ROM. What it will have is an affordable price: around $300 when it arrives in the U.S. later this year.
Designed for students and those looking for an affordable PC for Web browsing and e-mail, the PC-68001 is pre-installed with the Linux operating system and features an 8-inch widescreen TFT LCD screen with native 800 x 480-pixel resolution, an HDMI jack for VGA output, 1 GB of flash memory, and 256 MB of RAM. This ultra-compact PC also supports an external CD-ROM and hard-disk drive via the USB port should you absolutely need those features.
By BioTube at 8:55 PM ON 01/08/07
"The new Malata PC-68001 Personal Computer lacks a hard-disk drive, nor a CD-ROM."
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that's not proper grammar.
Anyway, it looks like a ripoff of the $100 laptop project. Decent office software doesn't quite work with such a low res(I've tried) though the RAM should allow it to flow right. And XP doesn't seem like the OS to use with only 1GB of storage space.
By danguy0 at 1:23 AM ON 01/09/07
That looks pretty cool, could be much like a Nokia 770 with a keyboard attached.
Can you tell us what CPU it has, what the expected battery life is, and what wireless options it has? (Bluetooth? WiFi?)
Also, do you have a better shot of the keyboard?
By Streaky at 9:30 AM ON 01/11/07
Wow... What a machine! There better be an external magneto-optical drive(CD-ROM) and Hard Drive!
What about the printer? No Computer can legitimately call itself so unless there is a printer, whether it's a usb, or a parallel...
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