£99 Elonex ONE laptop is no powerhouse...

by Julian Prokaza
on Fri 22 Feb 2008 12 Comments

Elonex ONEWith just a week to go before the launch of Elonex’s £99 ONE laptop, The Register claims to have had a peek at its specifications. The ONE is aimed at the same education market as other ultra-low cost laptops, but judging from the single photo that’s been released so far, it’s a good deal chunkier than the Asus Eee PC. According The Inquirer, the specification is a good deal lower too – but then this laptop is half the price of Asus’ offering.

The ONE runs a version of Debian Linux with a suite of custom applciations, and has a 7in 800 x 480 screen (same as the Eee PC), 128Mb RAM and 1Gb of flash storage. It has both Wi-Fi and Ethernet connections, along with stereo speakers and a microphone.

The Inquirer can only speculate on the “LNX Code 8 Mobile Processor”  running at 300MHz though, since Elonex is keeping mum on the precise details. It is considerably slower than the 900Mhz Mobile Celeron chip in side the Eee PC though, and is no doubt part of the reason for the ONE’s low price tag.

The Elonex ONE will be launched at The Education Show at the Birmingham NEC, which runs from 28th February to 1st March. Elonex will launch the ONE laptop in Hall 11 at Stand SW-T51.

[ The Inquirer]

Related: Asus Eee PC review

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    by at 16:48 on 20 Mar 2008Report abuse

    this looks brill, i will get one i'll ask my dad topreorder one tomorow £10 and ur garenteed one... then 3 weeks time and i'll b 2 pounds off. the batt life is good - my laptop does 1.5 hours max but 4 this is brill.

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    by at 14:56 on 28 Jul 2008Report abuse

    how can i pay for one of these if i dont have a credit card?

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    by at 15:08 on 28 Jul 2008Report abuse

    sounds great? is there an alternative way to buy them? like in a shop or by cheque?

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    by at 17:09 on 29 Jul 2008Report abuse

    I preoorderd one for £10 and its got bluetooth and also a 16gb bracelet to asrtore your files on for homework and files and it as good as some £300 laptops but it is a little bit chunky the colours are black white green pink

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    by at 22:50 on 30 Jul 2008Report abuse

    i got mine yesterday.Its a bit chunky and i can not get on some websites

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    by at 23:43 on 30 Jul 2008Report abuse

    I ordered mine from littlewoods, it took me over 4 weeks to get it. when i got it yesterday the earphones,cardreader & bag were missing!!! The screen has a scratch inside it (can't tell when on though)It is supposed to be for a kid yet i can't even get on basic websites like facebook & ebay e.c.t. I am on my partners laptop to send this! :-( Lisa

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    by at 17:44 on 3 Aug 2008Report abuse

    Good luck if u buy an elonex one+... I have sen't mine back to littlewoods, i was very disapointed with mine... if you use a website more than twice you can't get on them again.... in the main settings u can't get into anything 2 get rid of cookies e.c.t.. my hubby is a cisco network engineer and even he could'nt do anything with it. I think it looks nice though, i had mine in white, it's great if u don't want to use facebook, ebay, littlewoods e.c.t.

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    by at 11:27 on 4 Aug 2008Report abuse

    cookies are stored in $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*/cache

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    by at 09:19 on 10 Aug 2008Report abuse

    hi everyone i ordered elonex one+ its ment to be for children my good never seen anything so hard to use in my life dont know what kids they designed these for but sure as hell aint for the average child u need a degree to work the things why design something for a child not even a grown up can use pointless if u ask me my daughter is so upset over it so now im going to get her a tidy laptop that works off proper windows simple to use

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    by sarah at 11:07 on 16 Oct 2008Report abuse

    Both my kids want one of the elonex laptops for xmas but i know my son likes his facebook.it says on there website that you can go online, but i have heard that hardly any websites can be used, my daughter wants hers for kids websites like cbeebies and sites simalar to this, can any one tell me if these are any good for sites such as cbeebies and other games sites as i dont want the kids to get one for xmas and to disapointed

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    by Zed at 10:29 on 12 Nov 2008Report abuse

    I got mine yesterday (the new model) and its going back today...videos do not work on it so no youtube, iplayer or even cbeebies vids which my niece tried. Slow and interferes with my digibox. Very disappointed with Elonex Onet+. Only upside, it looks nice.

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    by Dan at 10:14 on 13 Nov 2008Report abuse

    Go for one of the Atom-based netbooks running Linux. Will cost around £50 to £80 more but will definitely be worth it.

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