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Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about these small laptops - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC.

This is the story of the OLPC project since it was announced in January of 2005. Intel and Microsoft are monopolies that used brute force to delay the OLPC non-profit open-source project from starting the cheap laptop revolution, taking away the profit margins from a multi-hundred-billion dollar laptop and PC industry.

Club Mandriva: "Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about netbooks - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC (which, of course, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring supports very well).

Many in the community have asked if Mandriva is going to get directly involved in this market. Well, the answer is yes!

Mandriva is providing the innovative operating system for the upcoming GDium netbook system, produced by Emtec."

From Mandriva Club : Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about netbooks - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC .

AdamWill writes "Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about netbooks — the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC.

Mandriva is providing the innovative operating system for the upcoming GDium netbook system, produced by Emtec.

The first GDium will be a netbook with a 10", 1024x600 resolution display and a battery life of four hours, weighing in at 1.1kg.

The innovative G-Key system stores the Mandriva operating system and all the user data on a USB key — nothing is permanently stored inside the GDium.

Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about these small laptops - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini comments on the increasing popularity of smaller CPUs.

""I've not seen energy like this from our customers in a long, long time," Otellini told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

"Everyone views this as being sort of hyperexpansive to the existing market." A centerpiece of the strategy is the Atom processor, which packs the power of a PC-class processor from six years ago into the smallest space yet — 25 Atoms will fit on a square inch.

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