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Android to take Linux mainstream

Victoria Ho | Mar 04, 2009

For an OS to wrestle market share from Microsoft's Windows, it will need two things: The OS-maker's support and low licensing fees.

This rings true even on the Netbook front--a relatively new PC segment, and even for Microsoft.

Recently, the Android OS backed by Google was unofficially ported to an Asus Eee PC Netbook, and according to online reports, the Taiwanese manufacturer has set up a team to develop a Netbook running on the Linux-based OS.

Calvin Huang, an analyst at Daiwa Securities, told ZDNet Asia in an interview, Android is poised to "kill Microsoft" on several fronts: A big vendor-backed OS will likely provide better hardware support, and open source Android's license is free.
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Asus' dual-screen concept laptop

Dan Ackerman | Mar 03, 2009

See me, feel me, touch me.
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Spotted at the German CeBit 2009 show was this interesting concept piece from Asus. It's a laptop with two displays, instead of a traditional screen and keyboard. The company calls it "a revolutionary dual-panel concept notebook" and says the design was inspired by "ideas contributed from users from around the world".
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Why Apple must do a Netbook now

David Carnoy | Mar 02, 2009

Mac OS X loading onto the Dell Mini 9.
(Credit: Gizmodo)

My brother-in-law Ken IM'd me the other day with this message: "Did you see they're loading OS X on Netbooks?" He sent me a link to a Gizmodo article that explained how to hack a Netbook into running Apple's OS X. He also pointed me to a chart that BoingBoing put together showing how compatible various Netbooks are with OS X.

Obviously, none of this stuff is geared to the average consumer--and there are certainly some bugs to contend with--but with some tweaks, techies have gotten certain Netbooks to run OS X shockingly well. Perfect or not, those articles and some videos had my brother-in-law, who's a total Applehead, champing at the bit to get his hands on an Apple Netbook.
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