Is This The One? £99 Laptop Launches next Week
Posted by Jason on
February 21, 2008
It had to happen sooner or later. We’re already accustomed to laptops costing less than £300, and if you don’t mind downsizing there’s the excellent Asus Eee PC for £200 or thereabouts but now Elonex have beaten everyone with a laptop selling for just £99. It’s called The One and it’ll be on sale from next week. It’s aimed at school students, which also explains why it is being launched at the 2008 Education Show on February 28th.
Like the Eee PC and OLPC X0 it runs on Linux, and has a compact 7-inch screen but don’t let that put you off. It can do almost anything a full blown Windows or Mac PC can do, including surf the web, send and receive emails using its built-in wi-fi adaptor, it can play and share multimedia files and it comes with a full office suite of programs. There’s a useful 1Gb of on-board storage, expandable to up to 8Gb with Flash memory, and a BlueTooth version will also be available. Early reports suggest the keyboard is a bit spongy and it’s not going to break any speed records but hey, this machine costs less than £100 or a very decent night out. This cute little laptop could turn out to be really big!
