El "Litl"

Vieron este nuevo gizmo ?

The Litl looks like a laptop, but there’s no hard drive and not much internal memory. Its stripped-down simplicity reminded me of Apple’s marvelous iPad, but there’s no touchscreen and no way to install those handy software apps.

Instead, the Litl works like a series of windows on the Internet, giving users access to a variety of online services, from streaming music and video to word processing.

Without a close inspection, it resembles a typical laptop. The device has just a few of the usual plug-in ports. There’s a USB port, a headphone jack, and a power adapter, as well as an HDMI port for hooking up to a digital TV.

The comfy, well-designed keyboard looks a bit strange as well, because a whole row of keys is missing — the function keys like F1, which are used by many traditional programs. But none of these programs are on board. The Litl carries nothing but a stripped-down version of the free Linux operating system, along with a Web browser.

Turn it on and it boots up in about 30 seconds and asks you to hook it up to a Wi-Fi wireless Internet connection. Once that’s done, the bright, crisp monitor screen displays a collection of rectangular boxes called “Web cards.’’ Each is a mini-browser that grants access to some appealing Internet-based service.[...]

Suena muy interesante, bien back to basics.