The CompuLab Fit-PC Slim may very well be the smallest PC available to date that is capable of running Windows XP. A small frame is cool, but does it pack the power to be competitive?
The Fit-PC Slim measures in at 4.3 inches x 3.9 inches x 1.2 inches. It weighs less than a pound and has an extra USB slot than its predecessor, the also small Fit-PC 1.0. Wi-Fi is also a new addition, as evidenced by that seemingly ginormous antenna.
Windows 7, Milestone 3 was just previewed and Mary Jo Foley got a brief look at it. And though Microsoft is now just one more preview away from the official Beta 1 version, not a whole lot has changed from Vista.
Second appearance of the day for Sotec, with a desktop PC quite suited, perhaps, to the OneLessDesk; it might not be an iMac, but it does have a built-in iPod dock. The Sotec E7’s 21.6-inch 1680 x 1050 display hides a choice of dual-core Pentium E2180 2GHz or Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz processors, a range of hard-drives from 160GB to 500GB, and from 1GB to 4GB of RAM.
Toshiba is no stranger to compact notebooks – its long-standing Libretto series is evidence of that – but the company has waited a while before unveiling a budget netbook. Now the first details of such a device are emerging, the NB105, based as usual on Intel’s single-core N270 1.6GHz Atom processor. Update: It’s not coming to the US; details after the cut.
It’s not a proper start to the week if there aren’t a few new Eee PC models to silently weep over, and ASUS hasn’t failed us with the unveiling of the 1000HD XP, 904HD XP, 901 XP and 900 XP (16G). Fresh to the Taiwanese market, it’s unclear whether the four will make it to the US or Europe. As the names suggest, each runs Windows XP Home; the 1000HD XP and 904HD XP have 80GB SATA HDDs, while the 901 XP and 900 XP have 12GB and 16GB SSDs respectively.
As expected, aigo held a press launch for their P8860 MID today in Hong Kong, at the Mongkok MK1 Super Digital Mall. Sadly SlashGear wouldn’t pay for me to fly there, but UMPC Fever stopped by to watch aigo execs take the wraps off of the 4.8-inch touchscreen Silverthorne device. They also managed to score some time with an exclusive Windows XP version; check out the video demo after the cut.
After Microsoft and the OLPC project made their OS deal official, we all knew Windows XP was going to end up on the XO-1 notebook. Laptop Mag scored an invite to check out the system, which will begin shipping with XP as a dual-boot option in September. XP runs from a separate SD card hidden behind the screen, and currently the XO-1’s own internal 1GB of flash memory is not accessible. Start-up speeds are lower than promised, too; Laptop Mag have a video of it in action, but all you really need to know is that where Microsoft promised 50 seconds, it actually took 1 minute 24 seconds.
Microsoft has released to the OLPC project the specially tweaked version of Windows XP that will be offered on the XO notebook. The new version of the machine should be available in September, according to James Utzschneider, General Manager of Marketing and Communications for the Unlimited Potential Group.
It only really took Vista to make thousands of geeks look more fondly at Windows XP, and so Microsoft’s announcement that it would be maintaining the last-gen OS for use on low-power netbooks was well received. The devil, of course, is in the details, and that’s an area Microsoft excels in: one of their more confusing stipulations was that only machines with sub-10.2-inch non-touchscreen displays would be allowed to run XP. Now, facing competition from Linux, Microsoft has experienced a blast of leniency and changed the rules on what hardware devices can have in order to qualify for XP Home.
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