Peter wants a minilaptop to go with his old blackberry phone. Iso 9001 certified quality management system netbook pro user manual may 27, 2004 pn 812 rev c. A laptop replacement pda organiser using epoc er5 os and applications, released in june 1999. Whats the best minilaptop for youtube and writing reports. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. Air my new favourite netbook by chris nuttall, financial times. Special version of the psion netbook produced for schools in malaysia and later available as. Malaybook malaysian version of psion netbook edward hasbrouck. Psion 7 and netbook portable computers eric lindsay. An infrared modem is offered for free shipped anywhere in the world to anyone who posts a patch for the netbook kernel that enables infrared. Psion devices psion organiser, psion series 3, psion series 5. Similar in design to the later, consumeroriented psion series 7, the netbook has a clamshell design, a vgaresolution touchsensitive colour screen, 32 mb ram, 190 mhz strongarm sa1100 processor and a qwerty keyboard.
It would appeal to those needing a decent keyboard, and instant access, and who find a conventional laptop too slow to. Eft zapper ozow masterpass rcs scode mobicred myschool momentum. The psion series 5 was a classic because it had such a good keyboard. The main downside was that psion dropped epoc in favour of windows ce a move many people argued was a retrograde step. No visitors, no workshops, no events, no school visits. Psion series 5, psion netbook, psion revo, psion series 7, psion siena paperback editor. A look back to the first consumer netbook the psion 7 and its epoc operating system and applications. Released in 1999, it was aimed at the mobile enterprise market.
The 32mb memory expansion scrounged from another dead psion netbook. It really makes it far more useful especially because ram works also as storage. Im oldschool now at 71, but im still designing and working as a. The original netbook my psion netbook from 1999 reddit. Psion beta excerpt from 2010 amazon breakthrough novel award entry. Psion netbook mit eigenem osrelease aus einem malayischen schulprojekt. Psion threatens netbook sites over trademarks technology. Netbooks are awesome, perfect for writing books outside, for example. More recently, psions nowdiscontinued netbook line, the olpc xo1. The malaybook is a version of the psion netbook with slightly different hardware and software. The netbook and 5mx systems have considerable similarity. Its battery life of between 10 and 12 hours gives even todays handheld computers, such as the asus eee pc, a run for their money. As the worlds attention turns from netbooks to smartbooks, psion and.
Im thinking of rebooting my nice small blackberry and putting a smallish minilaptop in my bag. Netbook is a generic name given to a category of small, lightweight, legacyfree, and. The psion netbook is a small subnotebook type computer developed by psion. I take my netbook to school instead of my laptop because it is smaller. The psion netbook in its day was an amazing subnotebook sized clamshell computer with vga touch sensitive screen and strongarm processor.
The series 7 and netbook feature instant on, and a rechargeable battery good for about 8 hours. The original stylus which i placed on the table, theres a holder for it on the right side and a slider on top to push it out. Psion cat book 1 kindle edition by vinge, joan d download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading psion cat book 1. Like the standard psion netbook, the malaybook runs the epoc version 5 operating system.