Ruslan Kogan's Hands on the Agora Netbook

Seamus Byrne and Ruslan Kogan himself take a look at the Kogan Agora Netbook in the Midnight Update studio. Seamus begins with a quick review of the netbook's hardware and Ruslan continues with a look at the Ubuntu based gOS (Good OS) operating system.

Kogan opted for gOS because it's fast, reliable, very functional, and has got a very nice looking interface. gOS features many free applications including several Google apps such as Google Calendar, Google Documents, and Google Reader. Applications can be quickly accessed via the menu bar at the bottom that is similar to the Dock in Mac OS X.

Ruslan then talks about the applications manager, which he considers on of the greatest features. It makes it very easy to install and update software packages and see which applications are popular with other users.

I can only confirm that this way of managing applications is very comfortable compared to Windows where you often have to the search Web extensively to find allegedly free software on shabby looking websites to make your system even more unstable.

Ruslan and Seamus also demonstrate Windows 7 Beta on the Agora Netbook, which is not an option for purchase but is said to run stable, if you can say this about a Windows system. They also do a boot time comparison, and believe it or not Windows 7 boots considerably faster.

Seamus concludes that manufacturing this device is a very smart step for Kogan Technologies and that he is really impressed with the hardware and the choice of software. Also check out his post on the Midnight Update website.