Comments on: 32+ Ultra-Mobile PCs That Run Linux

By: dezza

dezza — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:43:01 +0000

Great list, althought it would be cool if you had a buying link attached to it also ..

Which ones do you guys think uses the highest quality in case design, component quality, and shock resistance?

If I buy one of these UMPC’s I won’t spend any time on sending it for repairing, but not on workarounds with drivers in Linux neither!

I think Lenovo IdeaPad S10 looks very nice, the round metal cylinder lid looks very cool, like on the MSI MegaBook (Which is infact a very good computer, I’ve used one myself at a friends house, very comfortable to work with, and very nice design.

By: mark Kent

mark Kent — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:04:58 +0000

The Pandora machine claims openGL and SVideo out. See here:

http://openpandora.org/
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7004794073.html

Also, this sector is merging fast & hard with the phone sector, so for example the freerunner phone could be considered to be suitable for this list.

By: orlando_ombzzz

orlando_ombzzz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:17:20 +0000

anyone knows which of this netebooks ( if any) has a TV-OUT port? ( s-video )?

“How may of these UMPCs would exist if the Eee PC had never appeared”

IMHO, the main enzime was the OLPC, not the EEE PC

By: The Open Sourcerer

The Open Sourcerer — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:18:07 +0000

Make it 33. You missed the Elonex Webbook

http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/07/24/say-hello/

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:59:44 +0000

Good list It could be made a Wiki.

By: Johan Møller

Johan Møller — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:18:56 +0000

Interesting – I really didn’t realise the list was that long, good for us though

Lets make it 33 with the Gdium http://www.gdium.com/
I my opinion it looks to be the most interesting since it is not “just” trying to be a Linux driven version of something already present on the marked (I know – the Eee was, sort of, a new thing, but mostly due to size and use of ssd imho).
The description of Gayaplex is a bit vague, but it’l be interesting to see how that (and other similar) concept evolves.