New Web-Based Netbook From Litl — Based On Clutter, Uncluttered 109
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."
Re:Can I build my OWN Back-End "Cloud"? (Score:1, Informative)
The first devices are shipping on Monday according to the site
Re:let me be the first (Score:3, 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.
WSJ article (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why this won't fail (Score:3, 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.
Re:LOL (Score:1, Informative)
There are videos of the UI here: http://litl.com/support/ [litl.com]
Re:$700? (Score:3, Informative)
I'd rather spend $400 for similar functionality.
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/ [alwaysinnovating.com]
I say similar, because it fits the same usage scenarios, but with a different approach. (Not so much a web based one)