Don’t want to wait until June 15th to get your hands on a Chromebook from Acer or Samsung? No problem. Starting next week you can pick up a laptop running Chromium OS from Australian consumer electronics company Kogan. The laptop has an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a 1.3 GHz Intel Celeron SU2300 processor, 1GB of RAM, a…
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Kogan Electronics is launching three new budget computing products in Australia: an Android tablet, an Ubuntu notebook, and a set-top-box that brings Android to your TV set. Honestly, I have a hard time getting all that excited about yet another Android tablet, but Agora’s model does have one thing going for it — a low starting price tag of about…
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Ruslan Kogan is more than just an Australian with an electronics company named after him. He’s the guy who brought us the Kogan Agora netbook based on community input, and who didn’t quite bring us the Kogan Agora cheap, unlocked Android-powered smartphone. So what’s net for Kogan? a $200 tablet running Google Android that looks like it’s set to undercut…
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The Agora Netbook from Australia’s Kogan Technologies may be one of the first examples of a netbook designed by committee. Kogan founder Ruslan Kogan asked for community input when he first decided to put together a mini-notebook, and the results are a stunningly average netbook with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 10.1 inch display. 160GB hard drive, and if you’ve…
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Australian entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan promised a few weeks ago that his company would come out with a netbook based on user-suggested specifications in short order. And it looks like he was right. He stopped by PC Authority recently with a demo unit of the Kogan Agora netbook running the gOS Linux operating system and another running a beta version of…
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Last week, Ruslan Kogan, the head of Australia’s Kogan Technologies, announced that his company would be developing a netbook. But while he planned all along to use an Intel Atom CPU and a 10.1 inch display, Kogan took the unusual step of asking people to leave comments on his blog to help determine hte color, operating system, and other specs,…
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