<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:57 PM, TJ Vance <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crazyjuggler@gmail.com">crazyjuggler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was under the impression UNR was only for atom-based machines, as a repackaged distro anyway. Something about using MOBLIN code for power and speed optimisation, but I know you can install the netbook launcher interface and related through synaptic.<div>
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<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Intel and Canonical do work together on Moblin but UNR is a completely separate product. Moblin is a new internet appliance UI for netbooks, UNR is more of a hybrid, "make the desktop work on smaller screens" UI.<br clear="all">
<br>My coworker told me this yseterday:<br><br><br>> I held it for a bit and it was very light and I felt no heat coming<br>
> out of it. They don't have power management worked out, so it only had<br>
> 3+ hours of battery life .... on a 2 cell battery. He said the target<br>
> date was a Christmas launch in the UK for ~$200 US(!) dollars.<br><br>That's pretty sweet imho. $200 for an 8 hour device.<br><br>My question is will this be a consumer item that anyone can buy at the store or is it going to be bundled with a service agreement and a data plan?<br>
<br>Also, who is the market? W/out parental controls it's not going to be powering Mickey Mouse netbooks.<br><br>Furthermore, what's the profit margin going to be? There's got to be some way to make money off this or it won't work.<br>
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