Building a better netbook
The NB30, built around the low-power 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 system-on-a-chip (SoC) with integrated memory controller and graphics core with 1GB RAM, is pretty inexpensive at $379.
The device comes with a 160GB HDD (and has a Free Fall Sensor to park the heads to prevent disk damage if the computer is dropped), a 10-inch LED backlit display, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, a 0.3MP Webcam (which is surprisingly good), and a six-cell lithium ion battery that provides up to 6.5 hours of run time. So far, not bad.
But what did Samsung do? It decided the device should ship with Windows 7 Starter edition.
So, what could improve on this situation? I think you know where I'm going with this … yep, good ol' free and open source Linux, and specifically Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook Edition.
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