The company’s goal is to build a small, good looking and cheap laptop- under $500.

There will be two options when it comes to operating systems. The Windows one will retail for about $400 while the Linux operating system for about $350.

The new laptop form Dell will be using Atom processor and have between 4 and 16 gigabytes of flash storage, and come with 2 gigabytes of free online storage from Box.net, which users will be able to expand to 25GB.

HiVision’s current offering, the “mini-Note,” appears to use one of the several MIPS-based processors now available from Chinese semiconductor vendors. It may use a Longsoon-2F chip, or perhaps the Ingenic Jz4740 Multimedia Application Processor, which powers Bestlink’s $250 ($180 in volume) Alpha 400 mini-notebook and 3K’s $300 RazorBook 400-Mini-Notebook, two other Linux-based models out of China. Both processors use MIPS-like cores.

According to the Techvideoblog story, the HiVision miniNote laptop offers 1GB of flash, expandable via an SD card slot. It has 128MB of RAM, built-in WiFi and Ethernet, three USB ports, and audio I/O. Software includes Abiword, and multi-tabbed Firefox browser support. HiVision offers “secure online software updates,” according to the report.

HiVision did not respond by press time to requests for technical information about its MIPS-based mini-note products. The company also manufactures digital photo frames, as well as a number of Linux-compatible notebooks and smaller netbooks based on the Via C7-M, clocked at 1.6GHz, with a 400MHZ FSB. These include the NB0700, NB0800, NB0890, and NB1020, with the numbers in each name referring to the screen sizes, ranging from 7- to 10.2 inches.

The NB0700 pictured at right offers 512MB DDR2, a 30GB hard drive, and a 7-inch 800×480 backlit display. Other features include an Ethernet port, 802.11 b/g WiFi, two USB 2.0 ports, an SD card reader, microphone and speakers, and VGA output. The NB0700 is said to offer three hours of battery life and weighs just under two pounds (900 grams). The site does not specify what type of Linux is used.

Availability

According to the Techvideoblog story, which offers a long video of a sample review model obtained for one night, the HiVision miniNote is available now, priced at $120. A new lower-cost model will be available for a volume wholesale price of $98 in October.

HiVision’s site, which offers pages devoted to its NBx line of notebooks, but which at press time has yet to post information on the new miniNote, should be available here. The full Techvideoblog story may be available here.

This time partner of the initiative will be Amazon. Hopes are that this way the failures from the previous promotional offer won’t happen again.

What actually happened? A lot of people who ordered the laptop for their kids did not have it delivered on time and as a result they canceled their orders.

What does the cute little laptop laptop looks like? It is green with white livery, can be powered by a pull cord, and comes loaded with educational software. And last but not least- kids love it. So start planning on your holiday purchases

We all have a tendency to speak about gigabytes, RAM , hard drives when we describe our laptops.

This is too boring. Imagine what could happen if we try to look at the funny side.

Ok, let’s try! Are you with me?

1. Here is what a friend of mine who had a few drinks more last night and who did not took her Alka Seltzer in the morning did. Yes, if you were as drunk as she was you would do the same. Anyway, the only bad thing my friend told me was that her laptop was not big enough to have two eggs on it.

2. She as probably you has a shower before she goes to work. As I said before she was still drunk and her hangover was so bad that she did not know what she was doing.

The only thing she wanted to know how many pounds she had gained after the last nights stake, fries and shake… and this morning’s egg. What can you do about that- women. We have to love them not to try to understand them. Here is how she did it. She just used her new colored laptop as a scale. How silly is this???

3. Oucchh! Sorry, my friend I think I would not be able to document what she did next. She quickly looses her cool by the way as you can see from the picture below.

See you next time around!

These days everyone, literally can have a laptop. Some of them are as cheap as $400. Can you believe it???

But of course when everyone has the same thing it is just in the human nature to differentiate. That’s why companies such as Dell, Sony, HP and of course Apple have someof there laptops in color.

Are the colored laptops better than the regular ones- no way! Whe are they so popular then. Because people are willing to pay extra for somethings that sets then apart from the crowd. That’s why!

What a better conversation starter with the girl who is sitting next to you in the train on your way to school?

So do not judge them when you see them- the people with colored laptops. They just want to be different. Comment on their colorful portable computers.They will like it.

Most important- they will like you! They will think you are smart, clever with attention to the detail!

Good Luck!

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