It appears that EMTEC’s new Gdium netbook is ready for prime-time, or in this case, ready for display at CES. We went hands-on with a non-functioning prototype of the Gdium last August at IFA 2008 and now have pictures and specs for what appears to be the final product.
Owing no small amount of conceptual-gratitude to the OLPC project, netbook manufacturer Gdium have announced their “One Laptop Per Hacker” scheme. The OLPH is intended to not only encourage modification, enhancement and general tweaking of the physical Gdium netbook, but also to promote adoption and experimentation with the Gdium Linux-based OS. Unfortunately it’s not a way to get a free machine: more of a system by which Gdium can control early-adopters.
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