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  • Averatec announces 25.5-inch all-in-one, prices it aggressively at $999

    Averatec announces 25.5-inch all-in-one, prices it aggressively at $999

    Posted on June 8, 2009 | No Comments
    AveratecAveratec has just announced a gigantic all-in-one PC for $999. This one's a doozy, folks. A doozy in a good way. The D1200 series features a 25.5-inch LCD monitor with an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz CPU, 320GB hard drive, and 4GB of RAM nestled snugly behind it.

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  • Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps

    Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps

    Posted on May 26, 2009 | No Comments

    Well, here's a wild new spin on the Android for netbooks debate: Canonical, commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is creating an Android execution environment that would allow Android apps to run on Ubuntu and other desktop-style Linux distros, which seems like the best of both worlds for netbooks in most cases. Canonical already has a working prototype of the execution environment, and plans on making the necessary changes to the kernel in its next version of Ubuntu to give Android all the juice it needs at the core level and will open source the project soon. Things are still early, and there's a lot of work to do before this is going to really make the highly specialized Java-based Android apps actually usable on regular Linux -- they're currently working on granting Android access to the Ubuntu file system, for instance -- but we love where this is headed.

    [Thanks, Michael Y.; Image courtesy of Scott James Remnant]

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    Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 May 2009 15:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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