Medison Celebrity, $150 of Linux laptop for the people

July 25th, 2007 | Category: Laptops

Apparently you don’t need to be a non-profit crazy, or nab few million pre-orders, to sell a laptop for $150. Medison, a Swedish consulting company, has just unveiled its Medison Celebrity laptop, which sports standard hardware, a 14-inch WXGA screen, an optimized Fedora Linux install, and a downright criminal $150 pricetag. certain, you’re not going to be launching Crysis on that thing anytime soon, with a 1.5GHz Celeron processor, 256MB of RAM, and VIA PN800 integrated graphics, but the casual user should find plenty to keep them occupied, and there’s room for

Windows XP whether you want to pony up for a license — which at retail costs increasingly than the laptop itself. There’s 40GB of storage, a CD / DVD combo drive, 802.11g WiFi, and even what looks to be a built-in webcam in the pictures. These’ll be shipping in the US and Europe in 4-6 weeks. Oh, and in case it hasn’t sunk in yet: $150.