I got a chance to play with the Emtec Gdium for a few minutes last night at the ShowStoppers event in Vegas. And I have to say, it’s a nice looking little netbook with a unique design and a unique operating system. It’s launching first in Europe, and should be available in the US sometime […]
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EMTEC Gdium to sell for $400 in the US
We’ve been hearing about EMTEC’s unusual Gdium netbook for months. But it looks like the company is finally getting ready to launch the netbook. Gdium recently launched a “one laptop per hacker” program to help build a developer community. And now Engadget reports that EMTEC will be showing the netbook at CES next week and […]
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Gdium launches One Laptop Per Hacker program for netbook developers
The folks behind the upcoming Gdium netbook have launched a new program they’re calling “One Laptop Per Hacker.” The goal is to build a more robust developer community around the company’s unusual netbook platform. The Gdium uses a custom version of Mandriva Linux which runs from a removable USB flash drive called the G-Key. Because […]
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EMTEC gdium EM-PC: 9 inch laptop for $430
The upcoming EMTEC gdium EM-PC is a low cost subnotebook designed for students. EMTEC has operations in 24 countries, but the best product description I could find was on the EMTEC Australia web site, which states that the gdium EM-PC will be available in Australia in July. Here are some of the machine’s specs: Flash […]