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If you still insist on buying a hard-to-use, plasticky netbook in these days of cheap tablet computers, then you could do a lot worse than opting for the Jolibook. The hardware is the exact same pedestrian, commodity bag-of-chips that makes up any netbook, but the OS is actually pretty great.
The Jolibook runs the Jolicloud OS which, as you might guess from the name, is an easy-to-use cloud-based OS (built on Linux). I installed a beta version of the OS (now on v1.1) and found that it worked great on a netbook. Jolicloud comes pre-loaded with most everything you’ll need (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, VLC and so on) and has a big-icon interface that is perfect for the small-screen. I even loaded it onto a Windows tablet I tested a while ago but the lack of touch-screen drivers (since remedied) ruined the experience.
The dedicated Jolibook, which could be on sale this month, sports a dual-core Atom N550 processor and a 250GB hard drive (for when you’re not connected to the cloud). The battery is a six-cell model, and the other specs, while still under wraps, should be exactly the same as any other netbook.
Like I said – the OS makes this one worth a look, but if you already have a netbook gathering dust (And really, what else are they good for?) then you might consider resurrecting it with the free Jolicloud OS alone.
Introducing the Jolibook [Jolicloud]
Photo: Jolicloud/Flickr
See Also:
- Netbooks Offer a Chance to Challenge Windows' Long Reign
- Five Things Google's Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook
- No One Wants Linux Netbooks. Can Google Do Better?
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