The Spark is a 7 inch tablet with an open source Linux-based operating system and an open platform for apps, eBooks, and other digital content. One of the developers of the Spark project introduced the tablet last week, and now he’s posted a Q&A with far more details – including launch details. Pre-orders for the Spark tablet will start next week, and…

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HP may have cancelled the HP TouchPad tablet, but the company has continued to push out software updates for the webOS tablet — and even if HP eventually pulls the plug on support for the operating system, we’ve seen a number of alternatives. A team of developers at CyanogenMod have already ported a slightly buggy version of Google Android to…

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Nearly four years ago Asus launched the first netbook: a 2 pound laptop with a 7 inch display and a $400 price tag. While it didn’t come close to the $200 price Asus had initially promised, the Eee PC 701 was the cheapest ultraportable laptop on the market… and over the past few years we’ve seen netbook specs get better…

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MeeGo’s days may be numbered, now that Intel, Samsung, and some other major players are starting to throw their weight behind Tizen, a new Linux-based operating system for mobile computers and phones. But Asus says it’s not dead yet. Speaking to PC Magazine, an Asus rep said he expects MeeGo 1.3 to launch soon, and that hardware-accelerated support for Flash…

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There’s a new open source, Linux-based mobile operating system in town. The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of Tizen, an operating system aimed at smartphones, tablets, netbooks, and other devices including in-vehicle entertainment systems and smart TVs. While the Linux Foundation will host the project, it will be led by Intel and Samsung. The Linux Mobile (LiMo) Foundation is…

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The Asus Eee PC X101 is the thinnest, lightest, and cheapest member of the Eee PC netbook family. The mini-laptop weighs just two pounds, measures less than 0.7 inches thick, and sells for about $200. In order to build a netbook that’s both small and inexpensive, Asus made some interesting design choices. The Eee PC X101 ships with 8GB of…

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MeeGo is a Linux-based operating system designed to run on netbooks, tablets, and other mobile devices. While you can tweak MeeGo to run a wide variety of Linux applications, there aren’t all that many apps designed specifically for MeeGo right now, which means that while the operating system is designed to run on small touch-screen devices, you won’t find all…

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The Asus Eee PC X101 is an inexpensive netbook with 1GB of RAM, an 8GB solid state disk, and a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor. Those specs are pretty anemic compared to a typical 2010 or 2011 model netbook, but they all help keep the price low. Asus expects the X101 to sell for $199. But there’s one more…

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The Asus Eee PC X101 is a the thinnest 10 inch netbook Asus has released to date. It’s also the cheapest. The little notebook is available for as little as $199. In order to keep costs low, Asus loads the netbook with MeeGo Linux instead of Windows, uses a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor instead of a faster chip,…

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The Asus Eee PC X101 is a 10 inch netbook that may just have the lowest starting price of any laptop ever produced. While plenty of older netbooks start $300 and then see price drop after price drop until they hit $200, the X101 is a brand new machine that Asus promised would cost just $199.99 at launch. Now that…

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Asus hasn’t started shipping the Eee PC X101 netbook in the US yet, but our friends at Eee PC.it in Italy got their hands on one the $200 mini-notebook powered by a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor and MeeGo Linux operating system. They’ve posted a detailed reivew, along with a few videos that include English subtitles. Here’s the short…

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MeeGo is a Linux-based operating system optimized to run on low power devices with small screens including smartphones, tablets, and netbooks. The project is backed by Intel, and up until recently Nokia was a big player on the MeeGo scene, but Nokia has pretty much given up on MeeGo and is in the process of switching its smartphone efforts to…

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