A few months ago I checked in on the progress of the Jisus netbook from Van Der Led. Over the past year the company had announced three separate netbooks, but as far as I could tell none had come to market yet. Apparently my email inquiry got lost in the shuffle because I finally got […]
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Where did Jisus go?
No, I’m not trying to make any sort of religious statements with that headline. Seriously, I’m just wondering what happened to Jisus – the Van Der Led Jisus netbook, that is. After launching three different netbook models, ranging from the $450 base model with a 9 inch display and 4GB of flash memory to the […]
Van Der Led Jisus 3 goes Atomic
While the rest of the world is probably still wondering why Van Der Led decided to apply the Jisus name to its netbook lineup, the company has decided to forge ahead and release the Jisus 3. That’s right, they were creative enough to name the first laptop Jisus, but not creative enough to come up […]
Meet Jisus’ younger brother: Van Der Led’s Jisus 2
The 299 Euro Jisus laptop from Van Der Led has only been available for a few days, and already the company has introduced its successor: the Jisus 2. Like the original Jisus, the new computer is a low-cost ultraportable. But it replaces the 1GHz Loongson CPU with a 1.6GHZ VIA C7 chip, packs a larger […]
Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables
Over the past six months or so, Asus, Everex, and HP have managed to bring low-cost ultraportable notebooks to market. But dozens of other computer makers have promised to bring out their own mini-notebooks. Some will run Linux, while others will be preloaded with Windows XP or Vista. Some will have flash memory, while others […]