latest product family, Talin, writes Bloor Research analyst Rob Bamforth. Tadpole has taken its longstanding relationship with Sun technologies a step
further, as this family of Linux based laptops is the first to sport a fully supported mobile installation of the Sun Java Desktop System.
The Talin laptops will eventually offer a broad range of portable specifications. The first to be launched is a middle-of-the range model, Talin 15,
offering a Pentium 4 processor running up to 3GHz with a 15inch high resolution display and built-in Wi-Fi. This will soon be followed by a
lightweight, 3.5lb ultra-portable and somewhat later, a high-end 17inch-display version for power users. This may be Tadpole’s first Intel laptop, but
if the price is right and the hardware quality good, there’s no reason these products should not be considered alongside existing portable business
workhorses. The real differentiation is the platform software.
The Sun Java Desktop System gives the laptop family a portable enterprise desktop solution with a client environment based on open source components
and industry standards. The heart is the Linux operating system and GNOME desktop environment. On top of that, the applications for general office use
are Sun’s StarOffice productivity suite, the open source Mozilla web browser, Ximian Evolution mail and calendar. Needless to say, it also includes
Sun’s Java runtime with the Java 2 Standard Edition.
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