Say hello to Aware Electronics’ A-300 ultraportable! If you haven’t worked it out yet, I’ll spell it out for you – this is the basis for the computer that will be known as the Elonex ONE when it is released here in the UK in a few months’ time.

This system is spec-for-spec identical to the hardware that has been announced for the ONE, so we now know that the £99 ($200) system’s mysterious Aday5F 300MHz processor is indeed X86 compatible. That means that running other Linux distributions, as well as maybe Windows, should be possible on the system.

Also interesting is that the system supports a 2MP webcam – an option for a future ONE model, perhaps?

Looking at the software included with this system’s LINOS Linux operating system, we can get a good idea of what apps and games could be included with the ONE:

• Samarao (web browser)
• GQView (image viewer)
• Sylpheed (email client)
• Beaver (text editor)
• VNC (remote desktop software)
• Tux typing (typing tutor game)
• Xblockout (Breakout clone)
• Xbomb (Minesweeper clone)
• Xdigger (Boulderdash clone)
• Xgalga (Galaga clone)
• Xscanvenger (platformer similar to Lode Runner)
• …And some other educational games which aren’t listed individually.

(list via Wikipedia)

Aware Electronics will be at Computex this year, which is running from 3rd – 7th of June. I imagine they’ll be announcing some other devices based on this hardware platform then, as well as the more traditional embedded Linux platforms, for which the company is better known.

I am on the ONE beta test programme. Read my other ONE posts here.

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