Ubuntu 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’ To Star on New Kogan Laptops

With the final version of Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" just around the corner, excitement about the new Linux unloosen is reaching a febricity pitch. Now, adding fuel to the known fervor, Australian technical school vender Kogan sporty announced two new ultraportable laptop PCs that bequeath come with Natty Narwhal preloaded.

Late last year I looked at single of the ways you hindquarters get Canonical's Ubuntu Linux in operation organisation preloaded connected a computer. I also outlined various smashing reasons for doing it that way.

Instantly, Kogan's new laptops show yet another option. Attributable ship in May, the devices both feature a 12-inch widescreen LED display along with "everything you need heterosexual person out of the box: Internet, office applications, music, photo and video software packages, Ubuntu Oculus sinister & Windows compatible," in the fellowship's own words.

A Full-Sized Keyboard

First in Kogan's new lineup is its Agora 12-edge ultraportable laptop computer computer, which is priced starting at AUD 349, though presales are cheaper.

Featuring a 250GB SATA hard phonograph record drive and 1GB DDR2 RAM–with support for dormie to 4GB–the machine sports an immoderate depression voltage processor for long battery biography, a built-in camera and a rumbling-sized, applied science chiclet keyboard.

Inside the motorcar are a 1.20GHz Intel Celeron M ULV processor–the SU 2300–an Intel GS40 integrated video card with 256MB of common memory, and an 802.11 B/G/N wireless card. With a rank weight of about 1.5 kg, the machine also features a webcam and a battery life of astir 3.5 hours.

Then, course, there's the compelling fact that it runs Ubuntu 11.04.

A 500GB Hard Winchester drive

Kogan's other new Ubuntu-tipsy offering, in the meantime, is the Agora Favoring 12-inch ultraportable laptop, a version that's priced starting at AUD 389 instead (again, with discounts on early orders).

Featured on this one are a 500GB SATA hard disk drive and 2GB RAM along with support for functioning to 4GB. Again, Dashing Narwhale is the OS that's preloaded.

The best part is, devices like this are coming fast and furious. It was just a few weeks agone, for example, that we saw the launch of Hercules' new, Linux-powered eCAFÉ netbooks.

Now more than ever, when individuals and companies get disgusted the Microsoft treadmill and make that it's clock to switch to Linux, they've got lots of options to choose from.