A League of their own: Tablets are still not substitutes to laptops

The tablet mania has somehow reached a critical mass in just a few years. Dozens of models, updates and further improvements suggest that these so called tablets will be around for a pretty long time. It seems like a scene from a sci-fi movie from the past hand held screen, touch technology, great battery life. [...]

Classroom Netbooks: Education versus play thing

In Taiwan, two Classmate PCs have been placed so that an analysis can be made as to how the computer can change the classroom environment of young Taiwanese students. When the computers were handed, the teacher was skeptical if significant changes were bound to happen and rather would just cause distractions and not education. At [...]

PEEWEE KIT turns any netbook into age-appropriate PC

Want to prevent your child from visiting naughty, inappropriate sites from any web-browser? Then, you should definitely take a quick glance at the PeeWee KIT from PeeWee PC. Heck, you can even control their netbook remotely.

PeeWee Kit features:

• USB drive.
• Security Suite: “PeeWee Patrol” and “PeeWee Privacy” for online and offline safety.
• Versions for 3 levels of students: Pre-K, Early Elementary, Upper Elementary.
• 7 fun games and educational software titles for the ultimate kid computer in minutes, including:

ViewSonic VPC100 Atom based PC now shipping

A lot of netbook manufactures are coming up with all-in-ones that are based on Atom-platform. ViewSonic too joins this market by unveiling their own all-in-one PC, the VPC100.

Features:

• 18.5-inch screen
• 1366 x 768 pixel display
• N270 Atom processor
• 1GB RAM
• 160GB HDD
• 4 USB ports

What puzzles me: Why did not Viewsonic go for the Dual-Core Atom processor. Putting a processor meant for the netbook in an all-in-one does not make sense!

Albatron Netbook is super thin

The famous computer manufacture Albatron is now working on an Atom netbook. The netbook will come with a 10.2-inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution. What makes this netbook different from most of the netbooks out there is that it is very slim.

About its battery life, it comes with a 6-cell 3600mAh battery and 80GB HDD. Why just 80GB? Well, the reason is that it is using 1.8-inch HDD whose maximum capacity so far is 80GB. There is no information available on its price.

Presto Linux OS comes out of beta

The Presto OS has finally come out of BETA and is now available for purchase. Price? It is going to set you back $19.95, which is quite steep for an instant-on OS. I expected it to be around $10 or lower. Here are its features:

• Browse the web securely using Firefox™
• Chat using instant messaging (IM)
• Make free Skype™ to Skype™ calls
• Listen to music and watch videos
• View and edit documents created in Microsoft Office™
• Download games, music, videos and more through the Presto Application Store

The download size is about 462MB. Click on read more to get the download links and instructions on how to install