Apricot Come Alive
Once again, Apricot is in the business, making ultra-portable netbooks. Named, the Apricot PicoBook Pro, is now available in the market, weighs only 1Kg and has an 8.9in display, with the standard mini-laptop configuration of 1GB memory, Linux or Windows XP Home edition and a low-power processor, in this case a VIA Technologies 1.2GHz C-7M.
Its battery life is upgraded to four hours, a good one for a netbook, PicoBook Pro still manages to have a boastfully sized keyboard in spite of being smaller than previous models with 10in displays.
It has a 60GB hard drive, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and optional support for WiMax, with prices starting at £279 for the Linux-based model. This new device looks similar to Maxdata’s Belinea s.book 1, launched earlier this year, which had a smaller display ascribable to a detachable Bluetooth handset for VoIP calls sitting next to the screen.