Gadget & Tech News

For those of you still able to focus, able to avoid a gobsmacked trance provoked by the unabashed sex of the Voodoo Envy 133, listen up. LAPTOP went hands-on with a pre-production Voodoo Envy 133 running the instant-on, Linux-based IOS (aka, DeviceVM’s Splashtop) and came away “really impressed” by the “game changing” technology. Instead of waiting for Vista to steal another boot-minute from your day, IOS boots in just seconds letting you surf the web in just 15 seconds from a cold start — 4-5 seconds for IOS boot, another 10 or so to launch the Mozilla-based “Splashtop browser.” The IOS also presents users with a Pidgin chat (AIM, Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo, and more) client, voice-only Skype, and multi-media playback of photos, music, and video. Let’s face it, often, very often, this is all the functionality we need from our laptops, right Eee PC owners? Now hit up that read link to check the video hands-on.