Just in: Zoostorm Netbook

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

We often get a first look at products before they hit the shelves, but this is a first – right now, the “Zoostorm Netbook” doesn’t even have an official name. What we do know is that companies like Argos are already showing an interest, and from the couple of days we spent with the Zoostorm we suspect they’ll sell quite a few.

The bad news is that you’ll have to wait to buy one: PC Nextday, the company behind the Zoostorm brand, won’t be putting them on sale until the second week of January. Unlike the Fizzbook, Zoostorm’s first and ongoing foray into netbooks, which was based on Intel’s Classmate PC and aimed squarely at children, this is a unique design that it’s created in partnership with a third-party manufacturer.

And more importantly, it aims to set new benchmarks for what you can expect for the price.

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