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Windows 7 on the Apricot netbook
Blog Those of you who keep an eye on this blog will have read my thoughts about Apricot's PicoBook Pro netbook - out of the current crop of low-cost subnotebooks, this has to be one of the lowest-specced. Anyway, the last thing I wrote about the Apricot...
[November 19, 2008, 10:31]
Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog I have blogged a couple of times about the Apricot netbook. As referenced in the above link, SUSE Linux was a massive fail on the Apricot PicoBook Pro. OK, Apricot is a minor player, but what lessons can we learn from this?
[October 21, 2008, 22:23]
Apricot PicoBook Pro: First impressions
Blog Blimey - it's less than two days since I asked for a review copy of Apricot's netbook, and here it is in the office already. There's a couple of Apricot stickers on the box, but I can't tell who originally made the thing.
[October 17, 2008, 16:32]
Apricot PicoBook Pro: First impressions
Blog Comment Nice looking machine, glad to see Apricot back on British shores - RULE BRITTANIA!
[October 17, 2008, 18:35]
Apricot PicoBook Pro: First impressions
Blog Comment Apricot are just the middle man for a machine made in china. So it's Via FIC then. Much as I love my old advent 7011 p4 laptop, that is just a rebaged gericom, and doesn't inspire the confidence I have in the acer, mesh, rock, sony etc type of brand.
[October 17, 2008, 20:18]
Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment I think the Apricot netbook just proves you can't buy in a shipment of anonymous gear, slap a sticker on it, bung any old software on top and have a good product. Or even an acceptable product. Didn't work in the 80s, didn't work in the 90s, won't...
[October 22, 2008, 10:23]
The return of Apricot
Blog Remember Apricot Computers? Now Apricot is returning to the UK market with a netbook called the PicoBook Pro. I wish Apricot luck, but I can't see why they've gone for that price point with that spec.
[October 16, 2008, 12:53]
The return of Apricot
Blog Comment I remember using an Apricot F10 back in the 1980s, complete with the GEM GUI on top of DOS.
[October 17, 2008, 11:38]
Windows 7 on the Apricot netbook
Blog Comment Does this mean that an old petnium 4 note book could handle windows7? That would be a revelation. The ones I come across with 2.4ghz and above are very nippy still. Oh and whilst I'm at it, one of my laptops is a 2.4ghz P4 and it's fully up to date...
[November 19, 2008, 15:50]
Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment I think the difference between linux and windows would become apparent when you lift up the bonnet and look under the hood, with something like sysinternals tools perhaps. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, sometimes the best way to learn is to...
[October 22, 2008, 19:18]
Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment This has been my only complaint with Linux. You try to start a program and it tells you some dependencies are missing. In my case it has been the program Rosegarden. I have only found one distro that makes it work "out of the box".
[October 23, 2008, 15:04]
Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment Ator you're on to something. When you compile a program in VB or any of the MS languages, you as the programmer have the option to include ALL dependencies required into the install package. That even includes a dotNet runtime if necessary.
[October 27, 2008, 6:56]
The return of Apricot
Blog Comment Very interesting news.perhaps there we will be seeing Sinclair rise from the dead as well? jw
[October 16, 2008, 14:41]
The return of Apricot
Blog Comment Commodore are out there making some very high spec desk tops. Come back Atari, that logo would sell laptops by the truckload! Anyone remember the welsh dragon32 (80s) computer? it had a microsoft OS and all the games were written by microsoft.
[October 16, 2008, 18:53]
The return of Apricot
Blog Comment First impressions post is up now. Not looking good, kids.
[October 17, 2008, 17:03]
Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment Having to work every day on Windows systems what I would add to this discussion is that a "XP skin" for Gnome or KDE could take care of most of the "look and feel" issues. Operational items like drive letters, folder structures etc.would be a...
[October 22, 2008, 8:44]
Windows 7 on the Apricot netbook
Blog Comment I can remember the first time I installed Windows XP on my then top of the range P1.2 laptop. I thouht it flew. It loaded in a very quick time. But, of course, there were no programmes installed and no protection.
[November 24, 2008, 8:13]
Windows 7 on the Apricot netbook
Blog Comment Maybe Microsoft learned an expensive lesson? Loading up the OS with high maintenance "features/bugs" doesn't pay. P4's were supposed to be able to run Vista. The Aero features required the high dollar video cards.
[November 21, 2008, 10:58]
Mitsubishi to ship world's thinnest notebook
News As a warm up to that impressive act, Mitsubishi will next month ship the Apricot AL700. Based on Pentium MMX processors, the Apricot AL700 range will start at £2,799 + VAT on the street for units with 48Mb SDRAM, 3.2Gb Ultra DMA hard drive, 20...
[January 30, 1998, 10:41]
Mitsubishi to throw hat back in portable PC ring
News Japanese giant Mitsubishi hasn't played in the mobile PC space since even before it ditched the Apricot name, preferring to concentrate on desktops and servers. Now, the company plans to bow to customer demand by shipping a line of units from early...
[November 3, 1997, 13:51]
