The Irish may be a few hours ahead of us Yanks, but that’s not stopping us from snooping on their web pages. Dell’s long-awaited Inspiron Zino HD has finally popped official over on the outfit’s IE portal, and considering that it even made a brief appearance on the US site over the weekend, we’re [...]]]>

The Irish may be a few hours ahead of us Yanks, but that’s not stopping us from snooping on their web pages. Dell’s long-awaited Inspiron Zino HD has finally popped official over on the outfit’s IE portal, and considering that it even made a brief appearance on the US site over the weekend, we’re guessing it’s only a matter of hours, minutes and / or nanoseconds before the minuscule desktop shows up everywhere. A total of ten interchangeable colors and designs are being offered on the machine (which gets going at €329), not to mention an integrated HDMI socket and an optional Blu-ray drive. Unlike most of the mini PCs out there today, this one actually has a specs list worth drooling over, and if we can figure out how to get a TV tuner in here, we’d say we just might be looking at our next bedroom HTPC.

via Dell’s Inspiron Zino HD now official in Ireland.

This is one slick looking portable all in one X50 system from Shuttle!  Look at this thing, it beat the iMac hands down in my book for aestethic.

And the specs are not too bad either. The PC will come with a 15.6 inch touchscreen 1366 x 768 pixel display and [...]]]>

This is one slick looking portable all in one X50 system from Shuttle!  Look at this thing, it beat the iMac hands down in my book for aestethic.

And the specs are not too bad either. The PC will come with a 15.6 inch touchscreen 1366 x 768 pixel display and a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 330 dual core CPU, Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless n, webcam, etc, etc.

SlashGear reports the barebones version will be available in Europe by the end of the month for €361 or about $499 US.

Sugar Labs has announced that the rather splendidly monikered Sugar on a Stick v1 Strawberry is immediately available, and can be used to reboot any PC or netbook directly [...]]]> The popular open-source Sugar Learning Platform, a Linux based OS that was developed for the OLPC project, is now available to run from a 1GB USB flash drive.

Sugar Labs has announced that the rather splendidly monikered Sugar on a Stick v1 Strawberry is immediately available, and can be used to reboot any PC or netbook directly into Sugar.

“One year after its founding, Sugar Labs is delivering on its education promise for its second million learners,” commented Walter Bender, founder and executive director.

How to run OLPC software from a £5 USB stick | News | TechRadar UK.

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