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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."

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  1. $700? by BonquiquiShiquavius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would anyone spend $700 buy a device that is dependent on the web to function, when a netbook costs half and can access the web and still function when offline?

  2. Re:let me be the first by Abreu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really? Why?

    It looks like a regular Atom netbook... Why pay $700.00USD when you can get a netbook with similar specs for half that price...

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  3. Hmm... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cute; but I'm really not seeing ~$500 worth of improvement over a mini9 running Moblin. Or buying a netbook for normal use, a chumby for widgets, and booze with the rest.

  4. $699 by harris+s+newman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For $699 I can get two eee 10" netbooks. Forget it!

  5. Seriously, somebody's been drinking the kool aid by Croakus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a classic example of what happens when a bunch of engineers get together and they're all so dead on convinced that they've got the next great idea that they don't stop for 15 minutes to look at the market, learn what their potential customers actually want, or even write up a business plan. No one is going to pay $700 for one of these. It's just not going to work. How is a salesman at Best Buy supposed to talk me into buying a device that has no hard drive, a tiny screen, stores all of my data out on the Internet, and doesn't run Microsoft Office when there's a cool looking 15" laptop siting right beside it for the same price? It's just not going to happen. Mark my words. This will all end in tears.

  6. Re:let me be the first by grcumb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me be the first to say that this thing's gonna be huge!

    Really? Why?

    It looks like a regular Atom netbook... Why pay $700.00USD when you can get a netbook with similar specs for half that price...

    Dude, it's a joke.

    Litl is going to be huge. Get it? Little? Huge! Ha. Haha.

    Heh....

    ...Okay, you're right. I totally get why you missed that.

    That wasn't so much 'whoosh' as 'wha-atever'.

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