You might remember me covering Zonbu’s Zonbox recently. The Zonbox was a nice piece of hardware that had its limitations. Zonbu understands that and has come out with another product to raise the bar. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Zonbu Notebook. Now naturally I want to put this piece of hardware through the wringer to see if it is worth the $279.00** dollar price tag.

The specs of the machine are pretty typical of a modern machine. I don’t really want to address that here. But I will say the laptop is incredibly silent and has little issue with heat. What I want to chat up is the software and what you get for $14.95 per month.

The software is pretty much the standard fare for open source. You have everything the average user needs to go about the day productively: Firefox for browsing, Evolution for email, OpenOffice for office suite needs, Scribus for desktop publishing, The Gimp for graphics, etc…

The biggest surprise comes in the wireless.

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