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New Web-Based Netbook From Litl — Based On Clutter, Uncluttered

Posted by timothy on from the looks-nifty-will-it-ship? dept.

cananian writes "The webbook company of Gnome's own Havoc Pennington (with a healthy dose of ex-Nokia and ex-OLPC engineers) finally shed its secrecy today, with a new web site and an article in the WSJ. Technical specs on the hardware were found by Engadget last week, and now comes a bit more information on the software behind the UI. Most of the client software is written in JavaScript with GTK/Clutter bindings, and the UI has some superficial similarities to Pentagram's designs for OLPC's Sugar."

6 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Can I build my OWN Back-End "Cloud"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The first devices are shipping on Monday according to the site

  2. Re:let me be the first by blind+biker · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why pay $700.00USD when you can get a netbook with significantly better specs for half that price...

    Sorry for the FTFY. Had to be done.

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  3. WSJ article by cananian · · Score: 2, Informative

    The WSJ article was not linked, but it's at http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/11/04/litl-introduces-its-web-based-netbook/

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  4. Re:Why this won't fail by interval1066 · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're in Gnome development you'll see Pennington's name all over a dozen forums and readmes and all kinds of crap. He's a powerhouse behind GTKMM, the graphic apis, the list just goes on for ever. Even so, I'm not paying USD700 for a netbook. I just paid $330 for a very decent model with an 11.6" lcd (and Atom proc, of course.) That will do me just fine.

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  5. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are videos of the UI here: http://litl.com/support/

  6. Re:$700? by BikeHelmet · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'd rather spend $400 for similar functionality.

    http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/

    I say similar, because it fits the same usage scenarios, but with a different approach. (Not so much a web based one)