iUnika netbooks are dirt cheap, solar powered

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Spanish electronics company iUnika is showing four new netbooks including several solar powered models. That’s right. Netbooks with an actual, honest-to-goodness feature that sets them apart from the hundreds of other mini-laptops flooding the market right now.

The laptops aren’t exactly top of the line as far as netbooks go. They sport 400MHz MIPS processors, 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel displays and run Linux. But they also weigh just 700 grams (about 1.5 pounds) and cost between 130 and 160 Euros, which is about $177 to $218 US. And did I mention some models have solar panels on the back for charging on the go?

The solar models also feature plastic cases made of biodegradable starch and cellulose.

Thursday, May 14th, 2009, 5:54 pm by Brad | Tags: , , , ,