25 August 2008

Elonex ONEt's on the way?

There's a forum post at: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1113971 that implies that one customer has received an email saying his ONEt is on the way - there's no votes in our poll yet indicating any ONEt's being received - but we are now into the "last week in August" which is when the delay email said they would be delivered...

The delay has given us chance to think over the features of the various machines - and as always there's swings and roundabouts:
The advantage of the plain ONE is definitely its price, the 486 compatible processor means that it's likely that Elonex (or more likely some third party) will eventually bring the software more up to date, either by producing updated files for the installed "Linos" operating system, or by producing a version of "Puppy Linux" for the machine - and the spare internal USB port means that adding bluetooth or a bigger flash drive should be easy;
The main advantage of the ONE+ is the 256 megabytes of RAM, it might even be possible to port xUbuntu for this machine;
The ONEt may have a better input device with its touchpad, it's certainly lighter in weight, its MIPS processor has advantages and disadvantages - it's harder to port software for it, but equally it will be harder to write viruses and spyware for it - and the installed software while it may be based on older variants than those on the ONE may well include better video support;
And, the ONEt+... is probably for those with a little bit of extra money to spare...

So, we wait to be able to check these guesses out.

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