I took a visit to PC World today as I was in Liffey Valley and it looks like there’s going to be some fun and games with cheap ultra mini laptops. Pictured here is a mini laptop from a company called Asus. The screen is only 10 inches and it runs its own Linux operating system. It also has a 2 or 4GB hard drive, which isn’t very much. The cool thing about these laptops though is their size and cheapness. You can’t run any Windows software on them (well, technically you can but they would work way too slowly) but nowadays you can get good stuff for free on the web. This model (2GB) costs €269 whereas the 4GB model would set you back €299.
