The Kogan Agora Netbook PRO is announced to start shipping on 10th April 2009 and to be the cheapest 10" netbook on the market with an initial price of 539 Australian Dollars (about 369 USD). With dimensions of 10.4 (w) x 1.22 x (h) 7.3 inch (d) (265 × 31 × 185 mm) and a weight of 3.1 lbs (1.4 kg) this netbook should be an appropriate companion for net-centric computing on the road.
The Agora Netbook PRO is equipped with Intel Atom N270 1.60GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, 160 hard drive, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, integrated stereo sound, a widescreen 10.1-inch LCD screen, a 1.3 MP webcam, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 1 RJ45 network port, 1 SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro memory card slot, 802.11 b/g wireless LAN, bluetooth, and a 6-Cell Lithium-Ion battery said to last up to 6 hours.
The Agora Netbook will be shipped with the Ubuntu based gOS operating system, which according to the gOS Web site (page was removed) has been praised for being the most beautiful and easiest to use Linux operating system on the market since the project started in 2007.
gOS, which stands for Good OS, comes with a variery of Google applications such as Google Mail and Calendar, Google Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations, Google Desktop Search, Picassa and therefore is also referred to as Google OS. Other popular installed applications include Mozilla Firefox and the office suite OpenOffice.org.
One thing worth noting about the planning and marketing process of the Kogan Agora Netbook PRO is that potential customers of the netbook where asked in advance which features they want to see in this netbook on Kogan's company blog.
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