« Crisis Bustin' Booth Babes and Tommy Lee Jones at MWC | Main | Mobile Industry (Minus Apple) Embraces Universal Phone Charger »
Freescale Promises $200 Netbooks With New Chips
By Priya Ganapati EmailFebruary 17, 2009 | 1:01:48 PMCategories: Netbooks

Freescale0217_1

Eyeing that $400 netbook? How about getting one for half the price in just a few months?

Freescale is racing to get netbooks out this summer, featuring the company's chips, that would offer up to eight hours of battery life, be significantly thinner than existing designs and priced under $200.

The EEE PC 1000 is a neat little machine. It’s a lot more expensive than the original EEE PC, but it’s still cheap for a subcompact. It ships with Xandros Linux. That’s a good distribution for people who
want an easy-to-use machine for web browsing and word processing. However, I need LaTeX and Emacs for my work, and I haven’t been able to find a good way of installing that on Xandros. Since I use Ubuntu
Linux everywhere else, I’m trying to install it.