Small Laptop

The Gdium small laptop, or netbook if you prefer that term, ships with a 10″ display which offers a maximum resolution of 1024×600 pixels. This makes it slightly larger than the Asus EeePC 900 which on the other hand only offers a 8.9″ screen.

The small laptop weights 1.1 kilograms and comes equipped with 512 Megabytes of RAM, a 900 Mhz 64-bit Longsoon CPU, 3 USB ports, a SD-HC port, Wlan, Ethernet connections, speakers, microphone, webcam and a touchpad.

In case you might be wondering why I have not mentioned a hard drive: It does not come with one. It makes use of a 4-16 Gigabyte USB stick instead which comes preinstalled with Mandravia Linux and Open-Source software like Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office.

Small Laptop

That’s an interesting concept but rather problematic because you can’t do anything if you forget the USB stick. The Longsoon cpu requires some explanation as well. That’s a cpu that is manufactured in China and I was not able to come up with any benchmark comparison charts.

Small Laptop Doubts

While the small laptop might introduce some interesting features it surely does have a few limitations especially that it does not come with a hard drive but makes use of an usb stick only that contains the operating system.

This adds to the security of the small laptop but it also raises a few questions about operating system performance. USB Sticks are slower than hard drives and flash drives usually and it would be interesting to see how this affects performance of the whole small laptop.

The small laptop will be available in white, pink and black at the beginning of September for a suggested retail price of roughly $400.

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Tags: gdium laptop, laptop, linunx laptop, Notebooks, small laptops
Categories: Hardware

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One Response to “Small Laptop”

1. Josh says:

   August 7, 2008 at 5:44 pm

   That looks really cool! The loved the idea of the cheap small laptop, but the ASUSPC had such a crappy screen.

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