Elonex, a UK-based company, recently announced it’s going to be offering a Linux-based laptop for just under a hundred pounds. They’re calling it the Elonex ONE, and it’s tough not to see it as a dig at MIT’s One Laptop Per Child project.

Initially, the One Laptop Per Child project was aiming to build a simple laptop that could be sold for $100. Unfortunately, this proved a bit too ambitious, and the price is actually closer to $200. Also, the laptops build were intended just for kids from under-developed countries, and unavailable to us first worlders. I can get behind that, but the XO (the official name of the laptops) is such a fun-looking gadget, I can’t help but want to get my hands on one. I’m not the only one who feels that way, and the OLPC foundation tapped into that sentiment by offering to let us wealthy yanks buy one for $400. The $400 pays for a laptop for us, and pays for a second XO to be donated to someone somewhere else who could never afford it. Continue reading →

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Maybe I should temper that headline a bit by saying Linux isn’t right for most of you. Before those of you who disagree scroll down and kill me in the comments, hear me out.

I’ve played around with Linux off and on for while now. My first foray into the world of Linux was with Gentoo Linux. I’d heard Gentoo was one of the most customizable, streamlined distributions available. I’d also heard it was one of the more difficult versions to get running (Gentoo Linux generally needs to be configured and compiled from the source). Suffice to say, I now recommend you steer clear of Gentoo until you’ve worked with Linux for some time. I fought with it, and fought with it, and fought with it. It took me two weeks to get a basic install running, and even then I couldn’t figure out my wireless card, video card, or X windows. Anything beyond the command line was beyond my reach. After probably three weeks of frustration, I gave it up and wiped the install.

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Buying For The Future, PC Style

For this, we will assume you are wanting to keep your computer for at least another 3-5 years. These strategies are to help you pick a computer that will be sufficient for your usage needs for the whole time you own your machine. Continue reading →

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Is Leopard Worth The Upgrade?

Leopard has arrived and most are not only excited, but ecstatic at the upgrade. Unfortunately, some are saying that Leopard is little more than an incremental upgrade and offering little new features to consider it a true upgrade. Ultimately, it depends on what you expect from an OS upgrade. Continue reading →

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We are less than 8 days from the release of Apple’s newest version of Mac OS X, Leopard. We are all anticipating the glorious day and waiting with baited breath in dire suspense. But in the mean time, we can get our systems ready for the upgrade. What does that mean? It means we have some work to do so if there is a problem during installation, we have all of our data backed up and ready to be restored if need be, plus more. Continue reading →

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Yeah, yeah, I know I just bought a new MacBook and I am tauting the greatness of Macs but I have noticed one thing: playback of video and video signal handling was just better on the old iBook. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to switch back but there’s just a disconnect there. I think it has something to do with the Intel processor but I can’t prove it.

Maybe this is the reason Apple went with those processors to begin with. I just wished it didn’t freeze up for no reason. Could be the conpression formats that I am choosing but I had few if any problems like this on the iBook.

Let me know what you think if you are a Mac genius. If not, tell me of your Windows woes with video.

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