$98 Linux Laptop from China - The HiVision MiniNote

HiVision makes one of the worlds cheapest Linux laptops at $98 using a new cheaper chipset, WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out. Voice-chat, Skype, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support, Abiword for word processing. Automatic online software updates. Their current model is based on a public chinese low cost case mold design and is running on a MIPS processor, they may soon also support an ARM9 with DSP as the processor and they are showing their own nice looking case design molds. All running on smooth Linux interfaces. In this video, I got to borrow a review sample of the laptop overnight, and I try to show you all the browser and other software interfaces in this extended video review of this cheap MIPS based laptop. ARM and DSP is the way that I hope that most cheap laptops are going to be based on in the near future, Google will hopefully make a great Chrome browser for this kind of Laptop and hopefully that the geniuses at OLPC soon will announce that they will work to improve ARM and DSP based laptops in XO-1.5 and XO-2 designs.

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Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• cheap
• laptop
• linux
• hivision
• mips
• arm
• dsp
• embedded
• consumer
• electronics
• mininote
• notebook
• ifa
• olpc
• revolution

[ziggieice]

phire fux?

[DpEpsilon]

0:37, yeah, looks like linux. Some kind of linux is definitely here.

[dimmddr1]

@pcpik3r Microsoft's rigid monstrosity of a web browser.

[pcpik3r]

@dimmddr1 whats that?

[dimmddr1]

@pcpik3r Better than Internet Annoyer.

[pcpik3r]

totally not worth it

[pcpik3r]

fire fucks, three r batterey life, mineymise this window, oh the accents

[pcpik3r]

fire fucks

[fantasyleague0629]

wahah it's ridiculous.

[seiferis2006]

Why give so many details about the bundled software? There's plenty of repos on the internet. What people want to know is specs damn it.

[Lubeno1994]

firefucks!:D