Archive for September, 2008

Unofficial Forum Launched

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Following a few requests, I’ve put a forum up here. I’ve added a link from this blog as well. Given that the Elonex OneT appears to be very similar to a number of other small laptops I’ve kept the naming generic – there is clearly scope for cross-pollination with the experiences of users of these units.

I’ve not got much time to administrate it, but please make best use of this forum. Many of the comments posted on the blog to date have been very helpful, and as people get to know their laptops sharing this knowledge will be very beneficial. I’ve no intention to replicate Elonex’s own resources, and it is obviously worth trying the official sites first.

As the forum software is not linked with the blogging software, you will need to register seperately. Sorry about this – I spent quite a while looking into bridging mods to allow unified login, but the reviews seemed to suggest that these were quite buggy.

I’ve also been looking at littlelinuxlaptop.com recently. This seems to be a promising resource for anyone wanting to get stuck in and add software. It would be nice to see GCompris or similar on the Fun & Games list in the near future.

Mine is on the way. Thanks for all the comments.

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

I got my email earlier today confirming that the Elonex One T+ had been dispatched. Looking forward to getting it and posting up a review.

I’m planning to continue this blog as a long-term test once it arrives. This laptop range has been firmly marketed towards kids, so we’ll see how it fares in the hands of a 4-year-old!

There have been quite a few comments added to the last post from people who have got their laptops, so please take a look at what they think to them.

With respect to comments, I’m not always able to check this blog every day and have also been away for a few days recently, so comments may have waited for a while to get moderated (apologies if this relates to you and please bear with me). I also got a couple of comments which contained direct email addresses which I couldn’t anonymise, so I’ve not posted these – hope this is OK.

Elonex One t’s on their way..post your review comments here

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I’ve had loads of comments posted today from those of you who have received emails from Elonex or had phone calls with them confirming that their laptops are on the way…. all exciting stuff. Sounds like some people will be getting them before the week is out.

thekanester has offered to post up an unwrapping video – thanks for this, look forward to seeing it!

As the post title suggests, please post up any reviews and comments here when your laptop arrives.