If you had asked me in the past about the utility of a netbook in each and every home, when you already have a desktop of your own, I would have said that I just cannot find a reason why such a device should be somewhere near my home. I considered it to be useful, but shame on me!

I find myself in the position to really need one and to actually yearn about a netbook, but guess what? I don’t have one and it makes me want to scream.




And this is one that I would certainly take into consideration, if I intended to buy myself a netbook. Not only because it is cheap, compared to those designed by famous manufacturers, but also because it is solar-powered and this makes it an environment friendly gadget.

A European technology company which is known as iUnika has just announced a solar-powered netbook, called GYY. It is possible for the device to be the world’s first of this kind, because I haven’t heard about anything similar so far. Anyway, it is energy efficient and very light, and it’s more than enough, right?



But the main disadvantage is that, being eco-friendly, the netbook isn’t too… advanced, if I may say so, when it comes to its features. Therefore, here’s what you can expect of it: 128MB of RAM, 64GB SSD drive, a 400MHz processor, a 8-inch WVGA screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and an operating system which is said to be a “proprietary version of Linux”.

The advantage, on the other hand, is that it will be a cheap netbook that is expected to become available sometimes in June, in Europe only (for the moment, at least), for no more than 160 Euros.

(Source: Coolest-Gadgets)