Intel’s Pine Trail platform wasn’t designed to give netbooks a huge performance boost. For most day to day tasks, you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference between a netbook with an Atom N450 processor and GMA 3150 graphics and one with an older Atom N270 CPU and GMA 950 graphics. But there’s one thing […]
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Jolicloud Netbook OS now supports Intel Atom N450
While there are plenty of folks working on netbook-specific operating systems (a la Google Chrome OS, Moblin Linux, and Eeebuntu), the Jolicloud team seems intent on ensuring that their OS works on every netbook in the known world. A few weeks ago the Jolicloud team announced it was working on support for netbooks with VIA […]
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Jolicloud adds support for 1080p HD video on Pine Trail netbooks
Just when I’d gotten used to telling people that new Pine Trail netbooks were pretty much the on par performance-wise with models with Atom N270/N280 processors, the folks at Jolicloud have gone and proven me wrong. Within the next week or so, they plan to push out a new version of the Jolicloud operating system […]
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Jolicloud netbook OS working on Pine Trail, VIA C7-M support
The folks at Jolicloud are pretty serious about making sure that their netbook-centric operating system works on every mini-laptop on the market. The team already has an impressive list of compatible devices. And it’s about to grow longer. Jolicloud posted a message on Twitter this morning indicating that the developers are working on compatibility with […]
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Closer look at the eMachines EM250 netbook
The eMachines EM250 first made a huge splash when Walmart offered the netbook for $228 the day after Christmas. That deal is done and gone, but the EM250 is still one of the cheapest mini-laptops around, with a price tag of about $280. A number of Liliputing readers have left feedback about the laptop, and […]
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Jolicloud netbook OS reaches public beta
After months of private alpha testing, the folks at Jolicloud have launched a public beta version of the netbook operating system called Jolicloud Express. In other words, anyone can download and install it now. You don’t need an invitation. Jolicloud is a light weight Linux distribution that’s designed primarily to run web applications such as […]
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ReadWriteWeb picks Jolicloud as one of 2009’s top 10 web products
While I’m guessing this news has nothing to do with thre recent (and awesome) addition of QuakeLive to its ever-expanding stable of apps, ReadWriteWeb has pegged Jolicloud as one of the top web products of 2009. They’re in pretty select company, too, earning a spot with the likes of Freshbooks, Spotify, and HootSuite. RWW list […]
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Jolicloud looks to challenge Google Chrome OS’s speedy boot time
Jolicloud might not have Google’s marketing clout or the giant Google fanboy base which Chrome OS is going to, but they can still put up a good fight. If Tariq Krim and company stick to their guns and respond to the community, Jolicloud could very well garner some mainstream success in the netbook OS business. […]
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How Jolicloud is adding support for GMA 500 graphics
As I mentioned the other day, the folks behind the netbook-friendly Jolicloud operating system are in the process of adding support for machines with Intel Atom Z5xx processors and integrated GMA 500 graphics. For the most part, systems with GMA 500 graphics don’t perform as well as laptops with the more common GMA 950 graphics […]
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Jolicloud to add support for netbooks with Atom Z5xx processors, GMA 500 graphics
So many Intel Atom powered netbooks have been released over the past year and a half that it’s easy to forget that not all Atom chips are created equal. There are the Intel Atom N270/N280 chips that have found their way into the vast majority of netbooks. They’re pretty speedy for a low power chip […]